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Andy Rubin's tech startup Essential only ever released one product before collapsing, the Essential Phone PH-1, but the company had grand ambitions for other devices. The 'Essential Home' was planned as something like today's smart displays, and now a supposed prototype has appeared on eBay.
Former Essential employees form OSOM, a tech firm making privacy-centric hardware
Many former Essential Products employees have formed a new company called OSOM, which plans to make hardware focused on user privacy.
Many former Essential Products employees have joined a new startup called OSOM, which stands for “Out of Sight, Out of Mind.” The company has secured $5.6 million in funding and will use that money to create products that put an emphasis on privacy.
How to Force Apps to Fill the Screen on the Essential Phone
The Essential Phone requires OTA updates to add applications to a whitelist so they expand to the top, but this guide shows how to bypass that.
When Andy Rubin first unveiled the Essential Phone, many were amazed by the bezel-less design the company was able to come up with. One feature that stuck out though (literally) was the camera and sensor cutout at the very top of the display. Other OEMs such as Sharp and Xiaomi decided to embed the camera and sensors in the bottom chin bezel of their bezel-less phones, but Essential went down a different route. This is actually a feature that some assumed would be very distracting when they first saw the smartphone too.