Essential Products Is Shutting Down; Essential Phone Software Updates Ceased

Essential Products announced today that the company is discontinuing operations and shutting downwards. The news comes merely a few months later the visitor teased its tall prototype device Project GEM.

"Despite our best efforts, we've at present taken Precious stone as far as nosotros can and regrettably take no clear path to evangelize information technology to customers. Given this, nosotros accept made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential.", wrote the company in an official web log post.

With this announcement, Project GEM bites the dust and will never become a reality. In the aforementioned blog post, the company posted a few videos that describe the Gem phone's hardware, voice manner, camera, software and app integrations.

In case you're unaware, Essential was founded back in 2015 after Android's creator Andy Rubin departed from Google.

Essential has been regular in terms of software updates for its first telephone — the Essential PH-1. In fact, Essential Phone users received the Android ten update on the same mean solar day as Pixel devices. The company notes on its weblog mail service that the Essential Phone will no longer exist receiving software updates and security patches henceforth.

That is, the Feb security patch that rolled out earlier this month volition remain to exist the last update for the handset. However, Essential volition exist hosting the vendor image and all the necessary tools required for custom ROM development on its GitHub page.

Every bit far as the company's Newton Mail is concerned, Essential says that users will have access to the service until April thirty, 2020.