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Essential PH2 may have a camera behind the display
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.
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Essential phones available in parts of Europe
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.
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Essential PH1 Android 8.1 beta OTA arrives
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.
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Andy Rubin announces Essential Phone
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.