Essential, the phone company launched by Android co-founder Andy Rubin, has introduced its closure.

Established in 2015, it had deliberate to launch a number of telephones, a wise dwelling speaker and its personal working system.

Nevertheless it solely ended up releasing one handset, the Essential Phone, and some equipment for it.

It had been engaged on an uncommon super-slim smartphone referred to as Gem however stated in a press release that it had “no clear path ahead” to ship it.

“Our imaginative and prescient was to invent a cell computing paradigm that extra seamlessly built-in with individuals’s life-style wants,” the company stated in a press release.

“Regardless of our greatest efforts, we have now taken Gem so far as we are able to and regrettably haven’t any clear path to ship it to prospects. Given this, now we have made the troublesome determination to stop operations and shut down Essential.”

The closure of the company means the Essential Phone will not obtain any software program safety updates.

Nevertheless, the company has shared its software program on coding website Github so builders can “hold hacking” the system.

Essential’s cross-platform electronic mail software program, Newton Mail, can be discontinued in April.