Launching a phone company is a remarkably difficult — some even say foolish — thing to do. OSOM Products, a phone startup that rose from the smoldering ashes of Essential in 2020, is closing shop.

OSOM, the company that was previously reviving the Essential Phone, has just released an updated version of its neat “Privacy Cable” that should prove a lot more ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. We haven’t talked about OSOM much over the past couple of years because I made a promise that if their first ...

OSOM, the company founded by former employees of Andy Rubin’s Essential, is effectively shutting down later this week. The company’s chief executive, Jason Keats, announced the news internally ...

The Essential Phone is dead, long live the Essential Phone! That seems to be at least part of the sentiment behind OSOM, the privacy-focused smartphone startup that’s soon to unveil its first device.

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Oh man, I guess we’re going to have to revisit a previous pledge we made about the first phone from OSOM, ...

The Essential Ph-1 (or Essential Phone) went down as one of the most interesting phones in 2017, but it wasn’t for all good reasons. Andy Rubin, the creator of the Android operating system, developed ...

“I want to do some crazy stuff,” Jason Keats says with a laugh. “I want to bring back that GEM phone.” He reaches behind him and pulls the strikingly slender device off a shelf. The battery’s dead, ...

Osom, the company formed by Essential’s employees after the startup went under, has released new details about its upcoming OV1 phone, including a very familiar list of build materials. Meant to ...