Innovation a year before others 

Andy Rubin’s team at the Essential phone company is working on its long awaited  PH2 phone. The Essential PH-1 created a lot of buzz, but failed to bring enough money to the company. Now the company is planning to launch the PH-2 and that might be the first phone with a front facing camera behind the display.

UK, France, Japan, and Canada

We got a note from the nice people at Essential  that PH1 phone and accessories are swarming over some parts of Europe, Canada and Japan too.

All new colors shipping  

Essential - the phone launched by Andy Ruben and a bunch of other ex-Googlers has launched three new colors and announced Oreo Android 8.1 OTA beta too.

A new Android flagship starting at $699

Back in November 2015, Android co-founder Andy Rubin set out on a journey to build a private technology manufacturing company in Palo Alto that would soon reveal its own lineup of smartphone devices.