Essential Phone

Wonder What Andy Rubin and Essential Have to Announce?

Kellen June 11, 2019

I was up in the early hours of this beautiful west coast morning for work-related things, when I noticed that a random user on Twitter had liked a Tweet I sent back in September, where I compared the speed of Android updates on Google's phones vs. the...

Essential Phone Gets Android Q Beta 4, Other Devices to Follow

Kellen June 5, 2019

Now that the Android Q Beta 4 has been released to Pixel devices, you are probably wondering when you might see it on the other devices participating in the program. The answer is pretty simple for one phone - Essential has already pushed the update live to...

Essential Phone Update!

Kellen May 6, 2019

The Essential Phone, an old and no-longer-sold Android device with all the promise in the world that never quite lived up to our hopes and dreams because of a god-awful camera and weirdly-put-together components and software, is still getting updates. The May...

Essential Phone Keeps Getting Monthly Android Updates

Kellen April 1, 2019

The Essential Phone picked up another monthly security update today, moments after Google released it. That's nothing new, of course, as Essential has been as good as Google at issuing updates to its phone. That trend continued today with the release of the...

Essential Phone Owners, Your March Security Patch With Digital Wellbeing Support is Ready

Tim March 4, 2019

Like every other month, Essential was quick to roll out its March security patch to Essential Phone owners, basically minutes after Google did the same for the Pixel lineup. On top of the March patch, Essential states that this update includes support for...

Essential Continues to Show Other OEMs How Updates are Supposed to be Done

Tim February 4, 2019

Should you care about timely updates, there are only a couple of Android makers you should be buying from. Technically, there's only one, because one of the companies doesn't make phones currently, but we've already discussed that at length. Anyway, we're...

Essential R&D Boss Can’t Wait to Sh*t On All the Haters

Kellen December 31, 2018

The future of Essential is mostly a mystery. Since releasing a single phone a year and a half ago that only sold after dramatic price drops, nothing has come to replace it or work alongside it in any sort of family of products. The company hasn't delivered on...

It Looks Like the End has Finally Come to the Essential Phone (Updated: Yep)

Kellen December 28, 2018

It wasn't the successful, industry-changing run we had all hoped for from the startup founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, but the Essential Phone might be done. After a good year and a half of price drops and flash sales after a rocky, expensive start, the...