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Android’s dad misses his Essential phone’s 30

On May 30, the father of Android promised that he’d ship his ambitious Android phone within 30 days. That was 37 days ago. “It has to be a swing for the fences,” Andy Rubin, now the father of wannabe disrupter Essential, said that day.  The $700 phone (which converts to about £550 or AU$940) wants to elbow its way in …

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‘Holographic’ Hydrogen One phone wants to wow you

When I first saw that pro camera maker Red was making a holographic phone, I imagined it might beam the holograms of my Star Wars dreams, like the iconic moment when a holographic Princess Leia asks Obi-Wan Kenobi for help.  No such luck. The Hydrogen One doesn’t create that type of sci-fi hologram; it has what Red is calling a …

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