The Essential Phone is nearing shipment, and today company founder Andy Rubin published a blog post clearly meant to make customers feel confident with buying into a completely new and unproven electronics brand. He laid out Essential’s principles and pledges, which include providing the $700 phone with two years of Android software updates and three of security patches. That’s on par with Google’s plans for the Pixel line. Rubin makes no mention of how quickly those will come when a new Android version is released, however.

Essential Phone owners can also expect new wireless accessories — the first of which is the 360-degree camera — “every few months.” So far, all we’ve seen are the camera and a docking station.

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