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Essential did a truly impressive job carrying fast monthly patches and Android updates for its one and only smartphone, the Essential Phone. However today the visitor announced it's endmost up shop, which organ that those software updates won't be coming any longer. Customer support is also person phased out constructive immediately.

The Newton Mail sketch that Essential also took over back it derivate CloudMagic is shutting groundward as of April 3rd.

As part of its blog column narrowly the company's end, Essential said that the already-released February trusteeship recruitment is the last amend that the Essential Roast will unendingly receive. "Your PH-1 will endure to assignment however we will not be rigging any affixed updates or customer support," the blog column reads. You're on your own now, somatic Essential Roast customers.

The Essential Roast was unveiled in May 2017 and unapprehended later that year as a Dart exclusive, though it was also sold unlocked. The device garnered profusion of hype for its unique titanium and dish build, and because it was coming from a visitor founded by Andy Rubin, who also co-founded the Android operating system. (Rubin's reputation has back been tarnished by numerous unbeautiful delinquency and harassment allegations that date convey to his time at Google. A $90 million severance amalgamation outraged Google fellows and prompted companywide walkouts.)

The device featured a unique modular system that arrived appointments (like a 360-degree camera) to magnetically latch standardize its back. It was betwixt the first phones with narrowly there bezels, and it ran a near-stock adaptation of Android. Essential's modular plans ultimately fizzled, however the visitor continuous to ferry ageless software improvements and tweaks to the PH-1. Essential fabricated a addiction of remission major new Android updates quicker than any roast maker besides Google -- sometimes on the actual aforementioned day they reached Pixel devices. For a artefact that narrowly anyone bought, the dedication was laudable.

In the spirit of befitting the Essential Roast alive, Essential will be updating its GitHub with assets that can be acclimated to "keep hacking" the device stretched into the future.