Phone with the model number A11 has just passed telecommunications regulator; its FCC identification number is 2ALBB-A11. That, unfortunately, is all that we know, as the documentation does not give away one bit of phone’s specification. This, then, may be a good occasion to recollect what we know about the device.

Essential Phone is a startup project of Andy Rubin, ex-Senior Vice President of Android Mobile. It will be run by Android OS, but Mr. Rubin promises that it will be free (yeah, right) of Android’s vices like overgrown software and planned obsolences. What else? Well, there is quite a number of promises. Here are most of them:

– removal of all the bezels except the bottom one,
– modularity, phone equipped with magnets for attaching various, well, attachments,
– 5.7′ display, 2560 by 1312p, Gorilla Glass 5,
– Snapdragon 835 CPU,
– Adreno 540 GPU, 8-core, 2.45GHz,
– 4GB RAM, 128GB internal storage.

Device can already be pre-ordered in the US, offered by The Palo Alto for $699. US release is to take place sometime this summer. No word on a global release as of yet.