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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 went under in 2020, with the company having only launched the PH-1, it’s first smartphone. But there were plans for a second device from Essential known as “Gem,” and now someone has sold a ...

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