AI-Powered Smartphone by Andy Rubin may be a Game Changer
Andy Rubin, the co-founder of Android, has now re-entered the smartphone market. He left Google in 2014 and set up his own company called "Essential". His company will produce Smartphones, Tablets, Operating Software for Mobile Phones.
However what's most interesting is the smartphone part. His company comprising about 40 people, a good number of which are ex-Google, ex-Apple workers are working on a phone which apart from boasting high-end hardware, will also be powered by AI, which according to him is the near future and the next big change in technology.
The phone is still a prototype and is called (till the time it will remain in prototype) as Essential FIH-PM1. There is no official statement regarding when it will be released.
Design of Essential FIH-PM1 AI-Powered Smartphone
The phone screen size is larger than that of the iPhone 7 Plus but the footprint is smaller because it will not have any bezel. Experiment is ongoing so as to enable the phone's screen to feel different levels of pressure like that in the iPhone 7.
Also, the phone may have metal edges with a ceramic back though it still being experimented as this design may be more difficult to manufacture than typical smartphone materials.
A proprietary connector is being developed by Essential engineers that will apart from charging the phone will also let the phone's hardware and functionality to be increased.
According to the recent first look on the phone by Essential (top-most image), we can see that there is almost no bezel on the phone. There is also a speaker cut-out on the top and a button on its side.
The phone will also feature a magnetic connector which will allow third parties to add features for the phone.
According to the recent first look on the phone by Essential (top-most image), we can see that there is almost no bezel on the phone. There is also a speaker cut-out on the top and a button on its side.
The phone will also feature a magnetic connector which will allow third parties to add features for the phone.
The phone will have a sphere shaped camera with which you can take 360° high quality shots.
Performance of Essential's Upcoming Coming Phone
According to leaks, the phone will be powered by a Snapdragon 835 octacore-processor clocked at 1.9 GHz and have 4 GB of RAM similar to Nokia 8. Here is a concise benchmark from Geekbench.
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This is the detailed benchmarks of the Essential FIH-PM1 taken from Geekbench
Single-Core Performance
| Score | 1844 | |
|---|---|---|
| AES | 1129 870.8 MB/sec | |
| LZMA | 1715 2.68 MB/sec | |
| JPEG | 1786 14.4 Mpixels/sec | |
| Canny | 1471 20.4 Mpixels/sec | |
| Lua | 1569 1.61 MB/sec | |
| Dijkstra | 1931 1.31 MTE/sec | |
| SQLite | 1698 47.1 Krows/sec | |
| HTML5 Parse | 1401 6.36 MB/sec | |
| HTML5 DOM | 2136 1.94 MElements/sec | |
| Histogram Equalization | 1290 40.3 Mpixels/sec | |
| PDF Rendering | 1226 32.6 Mpixels/sec | |
| LLVM | 2455 168.9 functions/sec | |
| Camera | 1636 4.54 images/sec | |
| SGEMM | 517 10.9 Gflops | |
| SFFT | 1087 2.71 Gflops | |
| N-Body Physics | 1102 823.1 Kpairs/sec | |
| Ray Tracing | 1475 215.4 Kpixels/sec | |
| Rigid Body Physics | 1964 5751.4 FPS | |
| HDR | 1821 6.60 Mpixels/sec | |
| Gaussian Blur | 1164 20.4 Mpixels/sec | |
| Speech Recognition | 1565 13.4 Words/sec | |
| Face Detection | 1717 501.6 Ksubwindows/sec | |
| Memory Copy | 1672 4.63 GB/sec | |
| Memory Latency | 6005 13.9 Moperations/sec | |
| Memory Bandwidth | 3453 18.4 GB/sec |
Multi-Core Performance
| Score | 5426 | |
|---|---|---|
| AES | 5548 4.18 GB/sec | |
| LZMA | 7784 12.2 MB/sec | |
| JPEG | 8767 70.5 Mpixels/sec | |
| Canny | 6901 95.7 Mpixels/sec | |
| Lua | 7163 7.36 MB/sec | |
| Dijkstra | 6719 4.55 MTE/sec | |
| SQLite | 6871 190.5 Krows/sec | |
| HTML5 Parse | 6181 28.1 MB/sec | |
| HTML5 DOM | 3500 3.17 MElements/sec | |
| Histogram Equalization | 6136 191.8 Mpixels/sec | |
| PDF Rendering | 5560 147.7 Mpixels/sec | |
| LLVM | 6340 436.0 functions/sec | |
| Camera | 7455 20.7 images/sec | |
| SGEMM | 1898 40.1 Gflops | |
| SFFT | 5021 12.5 Gflops | |
| N-Body Physics | 4717 3.52 Mpairs/sec | |
| Ray Tracing | 5761 841.3 Kpixels/sec | |
| Rigid Body Physics | 8390 24561.9 FPS | |
| HDR | 7721 28.0 Mpixels/sec | |
| Gaussian Blur | 4599 80.6 Mpixels/sec | |
| Speech Recognition | 4738 40.5 Words/sec | |
| Face Detection | 7488 2.19 Msubwindows/sec | |
| Memory Copy | 2431 6.74 GB/sec | |
| Memory Latency | 5500 12.7 Moperations/sec | |
| Memory Bandwidth | 2910 15.5 GB/sec |
The smartphone may feature Android Nougat 7.1.1 as confirmed by Andy Rubin.
However it is not known how the AI will be fused to work with this smartphone. Still, this is the man who created the software used by 80% of phones worldwide (which is quite impressive!) so we do expect something really good.
The information out till now is not sufficient to know for sure whether this innovative AI fused phone will be better than iPhone 7 or Google Pixel but we can somewhat speculate.
Though the hardware is decent, whether it can topple Apple's iPhone in terms of performance is doubtful as iPhone's A10 processor is currently the most powerful smartphone chip in the world.
While most phone processors are focused on increasing clock speed, which is the main attraction for most when buying a high-end smartphone, the iPhone reduces the latency and fires away the bandwidth with its dual-core A10 fusion chip putting most quad and octa-core processors to shame. As for the best speed comparison that we can do right now, iPhone 7 scores 3450 in single core and 5630 in multi-core Geekbench 4.0.3 test while the Essential AI flagship's benchmarks are given above.
The AI-powered Essential FIH-PM1 by Andy Rubin is expected to be released middle of this year and it will be priced in the range of that of an iPhone(649$).
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However it is not known how the AI will be fused to work with this smartphone. Still, this is the man who created the software used by 80% of phones worldwide (which is quite impressive!) so we do expect something really good.
Some Final thoughts on the AI powered phone
A phone needs to have really top-of-the-line hardware including camera, easy-to-use bloatware-free software with a gorgeous UI and a great design to be considered a flagship.The information out till now is not sufficient to know for sure whether this innovative AI fused phone will be better than iPhone 7 or Google Pixel but we can somewhat speculate.
Though the hardware is decent, whether it can topple Apple's iPhone in terms of performance is doubtful as iPhone's A10 processor is currently the most powerful smartphone chip in the world.
While most phone processors are focused on increasing clock speed, which is the main attraction for most when buying a high-end smartphone, the iPhone reduces the latency and fires away the bandwidth with its dual-core A10 fusion chip putting most quad and octa-core processors to shame. As for the best speed comparison that we can do right now, iPhone 7 scores 3450 in single core and 5630 in multi-core Geekbench 4.0.3 test while the Essential AI flagship's benchmarks are given above.
The AI-powered Essential FIH-PM1 by Andy Rubin is expected to be released middle of this year and it will be priced in the range of that of an iPhone(649$).
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