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don't know if that makes it usable but you can carry it with you getting right into design we have our side buttons here of course a power button and volume rocker nothing on the top or the left side other than our SIM tray and on the bottom a USBC Port it does have a earpiece speaker at the top here for talking on calls and it looks like maybe there's a speaker down at the bottom here but it doesn't have a great like the top it feels solid uh which does not bode well for good audio but we'll find out soon on the back we we have our main 12 megapix shooter and a divot which is where the fingerprint scanner would have gone but it's not there because this is not actually a real phone it's just a prototype it was announced in October of 2019 but unfortunately essential shut down in February of 2020 so this never actually got released so there are things just missing and though there are a lot on eBay shout out to Asha for sending this working one they didn't actually get a completed version which I think is a shame because this is one heck of a design Essentials always been known for their design I mean they released just one phone but it was known for its design it was actually the first phone with a notch which is cool I don't know it was pretty controversial at the time but I was actually an early adopter and got it on launch Day in Canada because I thought it was incredible and let me tell you I would have been here for day one too but this isn't just a crazy look for the sake of being crazy it is very comfortable in the hand I have meaty hands albeit kind of average size and I find it pretty comfortable of course reaching up to the top is not amazing but I mean I'm rocking the OnePlus open right now and it's larger uh and the corners are even harder to reach so this is not too bad of course you're going to be using this one-handed most of the time so what is the software like well let me show you after a word from our sponsor Nixie their flexi controller is not the kind of one you would want to pass off to a friend when they come over to game nope you'll want to keep this one all to yourself it's got hall effect joysticks Hall sensing analog triggers with less than 0.1 mm of sensing distance and a 6axis gyroscope but the most unique feature is that some of the buttons can actually be swapped around so you can use the layout that you're most familiar with it's also got near Universal compatibility with Bluetooth a 2.4 GHz dongle and wired connection options so don't wait pick one up for yourself today using our Link in the video description all right we're in and this is pretty crazy it looks a little bit like a wind Windows phone like it's kind of tile based a lot of these don't work so I can't click on them and show you but when you hold on these apps you can change the sizes to make it larger smaller or really customize it to look however you want and it's cool I really like how they use the space on such a thin phone there's no after or anything like that things just get plopped on your screen you scroll through them which isn't the most convenient but I'll go through the pain just to have it look cool if someone sits next to on the bus they're looking another kind of pain point is that since it's never released it doesn't have Google Play servic so even if this OS did work perfectly a lot of the apps don't run but we did load a couple things to see how they work including a different launcher so we have Niagara launcher on here if you don't know what Niagara launcher is it's just a third party launcher that you can install on pretty much any phone but on this one it looks pretty slick you can drag your finger out see all the different apps and launch them through here which is a little bit more convenient than just kind of searching by scrolling down your home screen it's pretty impressive how it can adjust to such a weird screen resolution and talking about that that let's talk about specs of the device there isn't a whole lot about this online because it never came out but I found an app that'll kind of tell us everything we need to know like I mentioned this is a 5.3 in Ultra tall OLED screen it's 2160 by 560 I don't know what aspect ratio that is but it's a weird one I'm sure and it's 90 HZ which you can't see but uh it does feel great and powering this we have the AR Arch 64 revision 14 and the GPU is at adreno 618 and in this little body is a 1,000 Mah hour or 4.1 wat hour battery I haven't been using it a ton today I did some setting up beforehand but we're at 67% battery nice thing about a small screen and an OLED you shouldn't need as big of a battery to last you all day you have 4 gigs of RAM in 64 gigs of storage and it's running Android 10 which was the latest at the time is it the most powerful thing not by these day standards but we do have some apps on here to test out later one weird thing I mentioned before is the name is this the PH2 or the phone 2 or is it project gem well it's not even really super clear in the uh Hardware info here it has the device name as PH2 but then says that the device is the jam uh I guess it was never really solidified and that's kind of a shame uh it would be great to have seen what they would have released had they stayed open I know that before they shut down completely they released a bunch of designs and reders for future phones including another PH2 and a ph3 and this the project gem so it seems like they had some high Ambitions even though it ultimately didn't work it all right let's check out the camera I'm going to pull up the search here and you'll see the keyboard I don't know what to think of it honestly it's very pretty but I automatically want to start tilting the phone to have it be like a normal keyboard which this is uh uh not you're not meant to do that but it really shows that this is supposed to be a one-handed phone because everything's in reach of your thumb uh so if I search camera uhhuh uh not bad you can use Swipe but uh it's a little hard to get used to and it doesn't seem like it's finalized to give you the most accurate answers unless I really am trying to type Caterers or Cadets this is ridiculous I do like the uh kind of iPhone inspired layout but it's really hard to see what's going on here I haven't mentioned it yet but on the front is a whole punch camera that's 13 megapixels and this is video from it uh you know what in the little preview it doesn't look awful I do look maybe a little bit different uh color than normal but not not too bad the photo doesn't look awful though remembering that this phone is effectively 5 and A2 years old it's not bad all right so you can't rotate The View when looking at photos in the photo app but maybe you can in YouTube uh you know maybe it'll take up this whole screen I don't know I got to say even getting to the video you can see a lot of different content here this is convenient but how about a video itself uh that's definitely a way to watch a video you know you can scroll it'd be convenient for going through the comments ments but can I rotate oh baby here we go oh yeah that's more like it you can hold it comfortably you're not covering the content and it looks pretty good it does have hdr10 and hlg support uh and it's 320 DPI so even though it's tiny it still looks really sharp which is impressive how does it sound it's super 35 which is very standard for Cinema that is rough it is only coming out of the earpiece not the bottom at all so it's very uneven I guess let's see what crab Rave sounds like but I am not hopeful that this has any sort of Base whatsoever it could be worse it would be challenging but it could be worse this is pretty bad but I don't have a butt it really just doesn't sound good and it doesn't have a headphone jack so you're you're really stuck with it I got to say this thing is light too it feels like an Apple TV remote or something like that but let's weigh it and see wow 101 G that compared to the OnePlus open that I use daily is probably a huge difference yeah 251 G this is a lot easier to carry and fits in your pocket way easier look at this it still might not fit in women's Pockets but it has a better chance as an in between and iPhone 16 weighs about 170 G so this thing is quite light but with a shape like this it's the ult timate Doom scroll phone so let's pull up uh Twitter and see what it actually looks like to scroll your life away oh yeah this this is life this is sweet you fit so much info on there and I'm somebody who loves setting their font to Tiny so it is perfect for me look I can almost read that LeBron James stat I would show you other social medias but Google Play services doesn't work and it's rooted so a lot of apps don't work but what does work is Kindle so if you're a big reader again maybe this is perfect for you a little small but surprisingly readable you know what it's not bad but I know why you're here you want me to game on it I've been playing a lot of batra recently so I had to load it up on here and see if it works as a card game that requires a bit of vertical space I don't know how it's going to work since it forces landscape on this phone already the fact that it somehow adapts to this is so cool oh oh man this is Tiny you can see that it is using the whole space but the actual play area clearly has some boundaries and I don't know if this going to be super playable here we go that's right my addiction is fed batro confirmed works on the project gem but what about a more vertical game Subway Surfers that's right the game that you always see on Tik toks while someone's talking on a podcast cast should be perfect for this I think I've never really played before Oh baby this is it just enough this is all you need either way this works great imagine you're in an Uber and you look and their phone is showing this as the map that is so tiny I guess all you need to know is what's in front of you right it should be fine okay you know what that's actually pretty good I don't know if this is the map that would have come on the phone out of the box or if this is a third party app that somehow adjusted to the screen size but this is sweet one thing I haven't tried yet is typing horizontally oh I don't think that's the way to do it I'm guessing the idea is that you would still use this one-handed cuz otherwise typing two-handed is kind of a nightmare yeah if you're left-handed though I guess don't buy this phone overall though I'm very very impressed for a phone that never released or probably got very far in development this works surprisingly well and as this new dumb phone Trend kind of surges on with things like the light phone the daylight computers even the remarkable tablets this could have been a great Contender for still having a smartphone while having your usage minimized I want more weird phones I've been an HTC Hero user which had a huge chin I had the iPhone 10 the day it launched I had the essential phone 1 and and I want this so badly and if entral could have just held it together a little bit longer I think they actually could have had a hit on their hands but as it is today it's just a cool relic of what could have been you know what else is a relic to the past the Nokia 3210 that line has checked out a while back so why don't you check out that video and before you go like comment and subscribe and let us know if we should try to get our hands on more prototypes and weird phones and let us know what you think would you have gotten this phone I had been waiting for this forever and I want to know if this is something that you would have considered"}