Andy Rubin’s Essential to unveil its new smartphone on May 30

Andy Rubin will unveil his next Android foray on May 30th.

Essential, the company Rubin co-founded after leaving Google, announced the news on its Twitter account. “We’re here to let you know something big is coming May 30th,” said the company in its first official tweet.

https://twitter.com/essential/status/867780192890044417

It’s expected Rubin will unveil the device during the upcoming Code Conference, which starts on May 30th. Rubin is scheduled to attend the conference.

Rubin first teased the Essential smartphone back in March when he shared an image of a bezel-less phone. Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt later confirmed that the upcoming smartphone will run Android.

Update 05/25/17: Essential’s Twitter account has revealed a vague teaser image relating to the upcoming announcement.

 

We heard you @renan_batista – here’s something to hold you over until next week: pic.twitter.com/QSIeXyjKNq

— Essential (@essential) May 25, 2017

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