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Andy Rubin, the creator of Android, is launching a new type of smartphone. Essential Phone combines a unique edge-to-edge display with a modular system for accessories like a 360-degree camera. Essential is even launching a new Amazon Echo competitor with a focus on privacy. Follow along here for all the news on the Essential Phone and more.
Sep 22, 2017, 9:16 PM UTCChris Welch
Essential Phone now available unlocked at Best Buy for $700
You can buy it online or at your nearest store.
Sep 14, 2017, 8:18 PM UTCChris Welch
The Essential Phone will get a clip-on headphone jack
Plus answers to questions on Android Oreo, camera performance, and more
Sep 13, 2017, 7:05 PM UTCChris Welch
Essential Phone will be available at all Sprint stores September 14th
Now’s your chance to try it in person.
Sep 5, 2017, 2:57 PM UTCSean O'Kane
The Essential Phone earns one of iFixit’s worst repairability ratings
‘A hot mess’
Aug 25, 2017, 9:06 PM UTCChris Welch
The Essential Phone just started shipping to buyers
After a few missed targets, the new Android phone is making its way out the door.
Aug 14, 2017, 1:23 PM UTCChaim Gartenberg
Andy Rubin’s Essential is now valued at over a billion dollars without shipping a single phone
It’s a unicorn now
Aug 9, 2017, 3:14 PM UTCNatt Garun
Essential promises a new phone release date 'in a week'
US retail partners include Best Buy and Amazon
Jul 27, 2017, 7:49 PM UTCNick Statt
Essential claims its dual-camera system will capture superior photographs
Using both color and black-and-white images
Jul 10, 2017, 10:14 PM UTCNick Statt
Andy Rubin’s Essential is staying quiet on the Essential Phone delay
Essentially silent
Jun 1, 2017, 11:17 PM UTCNick Statt
Andy Rubin’s Essential is looking into smart glasses with built-in camera
New patent filing shows a Google Glass successor
May 31, 2017, 3:06 AM UTCNick Statt and Rich McCormick
Andy Rubin says Essential’s Ambient OS will be open source, just like Android
May 31, 2017, 2:25 AM UTCNick Statt
The first Essential Phones will begin shipping in June
That’s fast
May 30, 2017, 6:56 PM UTCChris Welch
US carriers confirm they’ll support the Essential Phone
The new Android smartphone should work no matter which network you’re with.
May 30, 2017, 10:05 AM UTCDieter Bohn
The father of Android says it has ‘forced us to fight’ with technology
But he’s releasing an Android-based phone
May 30, 2017, 10:05 AM UTCVlad Savov
The Essential Phone has its own version of the magnetic Moto Mods system
Modular, magnetic accessories designed to help us avoid the donglelife
May 30, 2017, 10:01 AM UTCThomas Ricker
Essential Home is an Amazon Echo competitor that puts privacy first
'An entirely new type of product'
May 30, 2017, 10:01 AM UTCDieter Bohn
Exclusive: this is the Essential Phone
Another stab at making phones modular
May 30, 2017, 10:01 AM UTCNilay Patel
This is the new Ambient OS, Essential’s big bet to control your home
If this, then that, but much bigger
