Essential says there will be two years of Essential Phone updates and an added three years of security patches.
The smartphone apple was afraid – admitting not abashed – at the account aftermost anniversary that Andy Rubin’s aggregation Essential ability be up for sale. With a bouldered alpha to the Essential Phone and the smartphone industry as bloodthirsty as ever, the aggregation canceled affairs for the Essential Phone 2 – although it seems Essential is not bottomward for the calculation yet.
Last week, on Twitter, Essential appear an amend to its Android P developers preview, which fixes some bugs including ones surrounding Bluetooth connectivity and Dark Mode. That’s accurate and all, but the absolute account is active in the replies to that tweet.
Within the replies, Essential accepted that the Essential Phone (PH-1) would accept software updates for the abutting two years and security patches for the abutting three years. If the aggregation gets sold, those timelines could acutely change, but it’s nice to apprehend that abutment for the PH1 isn’t activity abroad any time soon.
The Essential Phone historically has been one of the aboriginal accessories to get Android security patches, with updates sometimes accession on handsets alone canicule afterwards accessible release. The PH-1 is additionally one of the scattering of accessories to accept the Android P beta, which was appear at Google I/O 2018.
It’s bright that the aggregation cares acutely about befitting the PH-1 on the bleeding bend back it comes to the operating system. However, that adherence hasn’t translated able-bodied to sales, with letters suggesting that Essential has awash beneath than 100,000 units back its admission in August aftermost year.
While the Essential Phone 2 is definitively not happening, there still ability be addition Essential artefact in the pipeline: a acute speaker. However, if the aggregation is absolutely attractive for a buyer, all accepted affairs could be canceled at any moment.
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- Essential tweeted that it is arising a alternation of bug-fixes for the Android P developers preview.
- However, in the replies to that announcement, the aggregation accepted there would be two years of Android updates and three years of security patches for the Essential Phone.
- If Essential is purchased, these timelines could change; but for now, it’s nice to apperceive the aggregation isn’t abandoning the PH-1.
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2 years of software updates and 3 years of security patches.
— Essential (@essential) May 25, 2018
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