Latest Essential News
Essential Needs a Do-Over, Not a New Color (Premium)
Essential certainly doesn’t need any more bad press. But it brought this one on itself. To access this post, you […]
Google Pixel and Essential were 2017’s High-Profile Flagship Failures (Premium)
Two of the most eagerly-awaited smartphone flagships of 2017 were epic sales failures. To access this post, you must purchase […]
Android 8.0 Arrives for the Essential Phone as a Beta
Essential is today releasing the first ever build of Android 8.0 (Oreo) for the Essential PH-1 today. Essential announced the […]
Essential Phone Gets a Permanent $200 Price Cut
Essential announced this weekend that its first smartphone, the PH-1, is getting a permanent $200 price cut. Now, the unlocked […]
Essential Has Allegedly Only Sold 5,000 Phones
A market researcher claims that Essential has only sold 5,000 units of its first handset, the PH-1, through Sprint, its […]
Essential Says First Phones Will Ship This Week
Andy Rubin’s long-awaited Essential phone will allegedly ship to the first customers within the week. At least, that’s according to […]
Essential Phone Will Ship in “a Few Weeks”
After promising to deliver his new Essential Phone in June, Essential founder Andy Rubin today said that the device would […]
Essential? Maybe So
Android creator Andy Rubin has unveiled his first Essential phone and the start of an open ecosystem that he says […]