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| Android founder Andy Robin closes his company Essential |
The Essential Essential startup closed its doors less than three years after the announcement of its first smartphone, the Essential Phone or PH-1. The company's main and only products are sold poorly and received various opinions. According to the announcement, the company's second mobile phone has been canceled. In addition to the abolition of many other promised devices such as smart home assistants and operating systems.
Startup started by Andy Rubin, the inventor of the Android operating system. Although the company first drew attention and caused an uproar, a New York Times article indicated that sexual misconduct against Robin prompted him to leave the company after being accused of leaving the company quickly. Google
Essential is working on another phone with an unusual design, Project Gem.Robin first published preliminary information about the project in October 2019, but the company now says there is no clear way to deliver it to customers.
The company wrote in a message: With that in mind, we made a difficult decision to turn off and disable Essential, which indicates that the company has only stopped publishing updates to its phone. 2 monthly security update is the latest update received by the phone. not at all
The Newton Mail app purchased by Essential will be closed in late 2018, and the company announced that the app will continue to run until April 30.
The base model launched by the company in 2017 benefits from exceptional design quality with support from the Android founder and has a unique design never before seen on screen and front camera. A number of notable devices appeared a few months after the standard configuration.
The phone has deficiencies that have not helped it launch strongly, such as exclusive sales at Sprint in the U.S., limited use by the country's smallest telecom company, and reviews by many critics of the camera.
The start-up is struggling to sell and develop new devices, but it still supports its original phone, offering three new color options six months after its launch, and regularly updating the software for Android 10 on the first day of the OS release.