{"id":46527,"date":"2019-01-02T21:51:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=231099"},"modified":"2019-01-02T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:51:46","slug":"essential-stops-smartphone-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/02\/essential-stops-smartphone-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential stops smartphone sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tEssential Products cleared inventory of its hyped PH-1 smartphone, against a backdrop of speculation about its future product plans.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to 9to5Google, the company said it had sold out of the device, and \u201cwon\u2019t be adding any new inventory\u201d. It continued: \u201cWe are now hard at work on our next mobile product and will continue to sell accessories and provide speedy software updates and customer support to our existing community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the demise of the smartphone is not unexpected \u2013 it reached the market in 2017, meaning it had a solid lifecycle for such a device \u2013 the fact remains that it departs without a successor.<\/p>\n<p>Essential, which is backed by Andy Rubin, former head of Android at Google, launched to the market amid significant hype [1], but struggled to gain a foothold [2] in what was already a fiercely competitive market.<\/p>\n<p>According to recent reports, the company is now focusing on offering devices with enhanced AI capabilities [3], having acquired messaging app company CloudMagic to bolster its capabilities in this area.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/devices\/news-devices\/rubin-pledges-to-end-closed-smartphone-ecosystems\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/devices\/news-devices\/google-essential-smartphone-impact-limited\/<br \/>\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/essential-purchases-email-app-provider\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essential Products cleared inventory of its hyped PH-1 smartphone, against a backdrop of speculation about &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/devices\/news-devices\/essential-stops-smartphone-sales\/\">Essential stops smartphone sales<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/02\/essential-stops-smartphone-sales\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-c6r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46530,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46527\/revisions\/46530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}