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The Essential Phone is sold out and will stay sold out
June 19, 2025
If you were hoping to snag theEssential Phonebefore the year was up, you’re out of luck. An Essential spokesperson told9to5Googlethat the phone is out of stock and won’t see new inventory.
The spokesperson also told9to5Googlethat Essential is “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.”
Droid Lifefirst noticed that the Essential Phone is out of stock from the company’s website. The phone is also unavailable through retailers likeAmazonand Best Buy.
Even if you go toSprint’s website, the page seems to be broken and doesn’t show any information. You’ll still be able to buy the Essential Phone from resellers on Amazon andeBay, so all hope isn’t lost yet.
That said, this was bound to happen at some point. The Essential Phone originally launched in August 2017 with issues ranging from poor image quality and cellular reception on T-Mobile to touch response issues.
It wasn’t all bad for the Essential Phone. As polarizing as it might be, the phone’s design still holds up well against today’s smartphones.
The Essential Phone is also a great example of what a continually-updated smartphone looks like. Essential evenconfirmedthat the phone will get Android Q. That would make the Essential Phone one of those rare Android devices with three major platform updates.
There are murmurs that Essential is working on anew devicethat might be shown off during January 2019’sCESevent. The device reportedly uses artificial intelligence to either replace or augment the current smartphone experience.
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