Essential Products Inc., a startup co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin that launched last year to great fanfare, is considering selling itself and has canceled development of a new smartphone, according to people familiar with the matter.
Well, that was a short run.
Considering the release fiasco, followed by deep discounts to unload the phones (I just got one recently for $370 on amazon) – it seemed like they were floundering a bit.
At this point though, the PH-1 feels like a solid device running Android 8.1.0 very well. I’m happy with it. It’s one of the cleanest non-Google android versions I’ve seen yet. Only custom app is the camera app that I can see.
The 360 camera (which i picked up refurbished for something like $40) is fun, but it’s kinda a gimmick I guess.
Honestly, I just don’t trust start up phone manufacturers to be around the long haul.
One Plus
Nextbit
Essential
Are One Plus still legitimately a start-up phone maker..
One Plus “6” says they’re more medium term to me
Sorry, brain fart, I ended that comment too soon.
I thought Oneplus was going down like the others on that list. Sometimes you choose right and you get a one plus, other times you get a nextbit robin…
Also, who here really thought one plus would last longer than cyanogenMod? That shocked me. I’m defiantly considering considering one plus next time. Depends on the pixel situation and what state updates are in. I defiantly feel more secure on pixel, in terms of updates.
One would have thought the founder of Android would have had more luck here… evidently the investors thought this as well.
Yeah, Well, he left Google under suspicious terms, and was put on leave at Essential for the same reasons. He didn’t treat women with respect, to put it mildly. I’m not too sad that his company went down.
I’d ideally like all smartphones to be commodities. Boring, predictable, interchangeable, cheap.
Technically not “down” yet…
https://mspoweruser.com/essential-responds-to-recent-leaks-of-impend…
You guys clearly didn’t think very hard. Just what was the market for this overpriced phone was supposed to be?
People like me who are perfectly happy with their cheap,dual-sim chinese made GSM phone and actually *USE* them as phones?
HA!
Edited 2018-05-27 14:42 UTC