Android co-founder’s smartphone startup Essential is essentially dead
Having co-founded Android Inc. in 2003 and leading the charge on the mobile operating system for nearly a decade after Google bought the company for …
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What, no ‘game-changing’ Essential Phone 2 this year?
If you have absolutely no idea what an Essential Phone to begin with that perfectly explains why a “game-changing” Essential Phone 2 might never become …
Yep, the Essential Phone was a total failure
When the Essential Phone was first announced, it brought hope that someone might break Samsung’s death-hold on the premium Android phone market. After all, here …
Essential practically confirms Andy Rubin’s first phone is a flop
Andy Rubin’s Essential Phone has a daring design and it’s an interesting high-end Android device built in part by the inventor of Android. The Essential …
After months of delays, the Essential phone will finally ship this month
After launching his first smartphone in late May, former Android guru Andy Rubin said that the Essential Phone would ship within 30 days after preorders. …
The Essential smartphone just got a massive boost from Amazon
Earlier this year, Android founder Andy Rubin surprised everyone when he announced the Essential smartphone. It’s not that people were surprised to see Rubin working …
Andy Rubin’s ‘Essential’ brand is actually a copycat, new lawsuit claims
Last week, Andy Rubin launched his new Android phone, branded Essential, to much fanfare and breathless profiling. The phone is the kind of thing the …
Andy Rubin’s plan for his Amazon Echo killer sounds absolutely crazy
Andy Rubin’s Essential company unveiled two products earlier this week: the Essential Phone that should launch later this month, and Essential Home, an Amazon Echo …
Andy Rubin’s Essential Phone will ship much sooner than expected
Andy Rubin has his own take on what high-end smartphone should look and feel like, and what features they should offer — they still run …
The Essential phone that’s going after the iPhone 8 and Galaxy S8 is finally here
Andy Rubin, the man responsible for the Android revolution, is finally ready to show the world his new toys. He may no longer work on …
Andy Rubin’s mysterious new Android phone will do something your iPhone can’t
There are several interesting Android devices in the works, and one of them is supposed to launch real soon. No, it’s not the OnePlus 5, …
A Google exec just confirmed what we already knew about Andy Rubin’s ‘iPhone killer’
Andy Rubin, the former boss of Android, has a new startup that’s currently working on a high-end smartphone supposed to compete against premium devices this …
Android co-founder gives us a first look at his secretive new smartphone
Andy Rubin, one of the co-founders of Android and a man who will never have to buy a drink in a bar full of developers, …
Apple just killed funding for Andy Rubin’s iPhone killer
The man responsible for the rise of Android hasn’t been a Google employee in years. But Andy Rubin is still passionate about the smartphone business, …
Former Android chief Andy Rubin to release a high-end iPhone competitor this year
The smartphone market would look a lot different today were it not for Andy Rubin. An exceptional engineer with a keen eye for knowing where …
Android mastermind Andy Rubin may be starting his own smartphone company
About a year after leaving Google, Andy Rubin, the architect and mastermind behind Google’s Android OS, is reportedly looking to get back into the smartphone …
Andy Rubin calls it quits, ditches Google to build his own hardware incubator
Andy Rubin, the co-founder of Android and former Android Guru inside Google, is leaving the company to start a tech incubator for start-ups that want …
Google had hoped partners would sell 10 million Android tablets in 2011
Even before the release of the first Android tablet and the Honeycomb operating system, Google predicted its partners would sell more than 10 million tablets a year …
Andy Rubin: 3.7 million Android devices were activated during Christmas weekend
Google’s Android head Andy Rubin confirmed via Twitter on Wednesday that there were a total of 3.7 million Android devices activated on December 24th and …
Daily Android activations top 700,000
Google’s Andy Rubin recently boasted that there are now more than 700,000 Android devices activated each day. Just over a month ago, on November 16th, …
Google: Android activations up to 550,000 per day
Google’s Android activations aren’t slowing down anytime soon. The search giant announced in its second-quarter earnings report yesterday that there are now 550,000 Android smartphones …
Google now activates 500,000 Android devices each day
Google announced at its annual Google I/O conference last month that as of the beginning of May, the tech giant was activating 400,000 Android new …
Google did nothing illegal in blocking Skyhook-Motorola deal, company claims
Google told the Superior Court in Boston last week that it did nothing illegal with regard to blocking Skyhook’s contract with Motorola. Skyhook wireless, a …
Google’s Andy Rubin says Android is still open
Last week reports surfaced claiming that Google was clamping down on what its Android partners could and could not tweak in newer versions of the …
Andy Rubin: over 300,000 Android phones are being activated every day
Google’s VP of Engineering, Andy Rubin, utilized the social-network Twitter to drop some knowledge on the world. Mr. Rubin notes that his company’s mobile operating …
Corp dev VP calls Android buy Google’s ‘best deal ever’
When a VP at a company that acquires as many businesses as Google calls the Android buy Google’s “best deal ever,” it’s a pretty big …
BGR Caption Contest: Motorola DROID X launch
Who thinks they can come up with the best captions for this photo we took of the Motorola DROID X announcement event? From left to …
