Essential Phone

Android 10 Arrives for Essential Phone

Tim September 3, 2019

Essential, the king of Android updates, is shipping out Android 10 to owners of the Essential Phone. Related: Android 10 is live for Pixel phones! Inside, you'll find all of the Android 10 goodies, including the new gesture navigation, smart reply, dark mode,...

Whoops: Android Q Easter Egg Found on Essential Phone, Not Pixels

Tim August 9, 2019

For each new version of Android, Google cooks up a cute little easter egg that is always buried inside of the Android version number within the Settings menu. Rapidly tapping on that system version in Android Q has brought up the Android Pie easter egg, as...

Essential Phone, August Security Patch.

Kellen August 5, 2019

Right on time. https://twitter.com/essential/status/1158439991254626305

Essential Phone, July Android Update.

Kellen July 1, 2019

Please make another phone. We like these frequent updates that no one else outside of Google is apparently capable of doing. https://twitter.com/essential/status/1145754085909573635

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...