Android’s co-founder Andy Rubin’s company Essential shut its shop down in 2020. The brand quit the smartphone market with only one device under its belt called the Essential PH-1. Notably, the company ...

Before it kicked the bucket, Essential was teasing a radical new “Gem” smartphone that never came to market, but someone on eBay is currently selling quite a few of them. Essential’s founder, Andy ...

Essential teased its “Gem” smartphone hardware back in 2019 as a follow-up to the PH-1. When Essential shut down in 2020, work on the Gem shut down with it. Occasionally the rare prototype hardware ...

Despite never making it to market, Essential's Gem phone resurfaces in 2024, with a prototype selling for a steal on eBay at $165. Software engineer Rob Wainwright shared a video of the prototype, ...

Essential Products, the smartphone startup launched by controversial Android co-founder Andy Rubin, announced yesterday it was shutting down just four months after introducing a new device, Project ...

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The Essential Phone (PH-1) is a weird little blip on Android’s history. Gone, but not totally forgotten. However, one of the few remaining traces of the Essential brand has now been wiped from Twitter ...