Essential could launch the long-awaited Ocean Depths – a combination of blue and green – colour variant of the Essential Phone (PH-1) on February 15.
“A new wave is coming,” reads a cryptic save-the-date teaser shared on the firm’s official Twitter account on Monday – leading us to believe that the ocean-inspired hue is at long last on the way, following its announcement alongside the standard Black Moon, Pure White and Stellar Grey variants back in May 2017.
A new wave is coming. #EssentialPhone pic.twitter.com/YPFgzusFhb
— Essential (@essential) February 13, 2018
There is, of course, a chance that Essential is hinting at something else in the tweet, but it’s a slim one. The startup posted disappointing sales figures for 2017, shipping a total of 88,000 units, so it’ll be looking for a quick way to draw in additional customers – and a new colour variant is a sure fire way of doing just that.
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The Essential Phone is the first handset designed and manufactured by Android co-creator Andy Rubin’s smartphone startup Essential. It sports a 5.7-inch edge-to-edge display, a Qualcomm-made Snapdragon 835 CPU, 4GB of RAM, a 13MP dual-pixel rear-facing camera, an 8MP front-facing shooter and a 3040mAh battery.
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