Smartphonemaker Essential from Android founder Andy Rubin quits – Tablets and phones – News

Smartphonemaker Essential, known for the PH-1 phone released in 2017, will stop. The latest update for the phone has been released and the company is stopping delivering support. The Gem, a long and thin smartphone, will not come.

The latest update for the PH-1 is last week, says Essential. The company has placed the code on GitHub. Enthusiastic users should, in theory, be able to continue to develop the software for the telephone.

Essential also had various other products, in addition to the telephone. Mail service Newton Mail will stop working at the end of April. The Gem smartphone that Essential showed in October will not come. There was no “clear path” to a sale to consumers, the company says.

It is obvious that the company of former Android founder Andy Rubin no longer had any money. The PH-1 sales yielded money in 2017, but after that the company probably had little turnover. There was never a successor for the telephone.

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