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Essential is dead, no more updates for the PH-1

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Vlad 12 February 2020

Essential Android

Essential was the quintessential one-hit-wonder in the mobile world. And it's now officially dead. The company is shutting down. That means that the February security update is the last one the Essential Phone will ever receive. Of course, the device will keep working, but whatever happens in the future, you're not going to get any more updates. Bugs? Will forever be there. Security scares? No one will fix them. Oh and also, there's no more customer support. At all.

This has been a very long time coming, seeing as how the company hasn't made a new phone since 2017. It was working on a very weird looking elongated handset it referred to as Project GEM, but that's not going to see the light of day anymore.

Essential is dead, no more updates for the PH-1

Just to tease 'what could have been', Essential has outed a few videos demonstrating the concept of Project GEM some more (see the Source link below), and we have to say... we're not very sad to see it go. Portability is cool and all, but it's being addressed slowly by foldables. As for trying to be productive or follow social feeds on a screen that is that narrow... That hurts to even consider for a fleeting moment.

Finally, the company also owned Newton Mail, which is shutting down on April 30. Developers can still choose to issue custom ROMs for the Essential Phone of course, as everything needed "to keep hacking on PH-1" is going to be hosted on Essential's github.

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  • Anonymous
  • k7t
  • 20 Sep 2020

Well, I finally managed to drop it in the wrong spot, now I'm looking for another phone. I had planned on keeping this one for another year or 2.

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  • Yc3
  • 14 Sep 2020

One of the best phones I've ever owned and used. Unless you're a camera geek, the camera was perfectly usable for spur-of-the-moment, and food shots, which is how ~80% of the people use their cellphone cameras.

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  • Yazman666
  • MiK
  • 17 Apr 2020

Best Phone I have ever owned. Really harsh campaign against it since the beginning, mine is from release and it is still going strong in 2020, 6 months from now i will still have android 10 on my "unsupported" Ph-1 BTW been running it since Official...

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