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Its first product was the Essential Phone, a high-end, slim bezel smartphone with a notched screen and ceramic body. The Essential Phone launched in September 2017 with a pretty bad first impression.

After testing the Essential Phone for the last week, I can confirm my initial impression: It's a superb device. In fact, I could easily see myself buying a Phone for my next smartphone. The Phone ...

Essential throws out all the usual conventions with “Project Gem. ... Meet "Project Gem," a tall, ultra-skinny smartphone with an aspect ratio approaching that of a TV remote.

The Essential Phone's lack of logos is unusual compared to other high-end smartphones. Apple slaps its logo right on the center of the phone. Samsung places two different logos on that back of its ...

In its lifetime, Essential had only one smartphone and the sales were very poor. According to reports, Nothing’s acquisition of Essential was completed on January 6 this year.

Essential Products Inc., the smartphone company from the father of Google’s Android mobile software, is shutting down after less than five years in business and raising $330 million in funding.

Andy Rubin’s Essential smartphone has made its splashy, highly saturated debut, and the phone looks like a pretty stunning piece of kit in press images (most things in press images do).But the ...

That’s partly because Essential has under 100 employees in total, which is tiny for a company building and shipping premium smartphones (Apple has over 100,000 global full-time employees, by ...