Unfortunately, the hype trains came to a sudden stop this week.
Essential struggled to release a follow-up, andthe company officially shut down in early 2020.
OSOM hasn’t released any products yet, but up until this week, its first smartphone looked promising.
Nothing, another startup company, is also working on an Android smartphone with a focus on privacy.
There have beenplentyofteasersandannouncements, with a (supposedly) full reveal scheduled for July 12. Who doesn’t love fun lights on electronics?
Nothing has also receivedover $140 million in venture capital funding, so it’s not short on resources.
This also isn’t the first time we’ve seen a phone embracing blockchain technologies.
The Bitcoin ledger iscurrently around 360 GB, and grows by around 50 GB each year.
Nothing told PCMag it will eventually release a product in the United States.
Most of Google’s Pixel phones haven’t sold all that well, though thePixel 6 seriesisfinally changing that.
