https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/25/android_creator_rubin_essential/

Andy Rubin's quixotic smartphone startup, Essential Products, has cancelled a handset and is looking for buyers, according to a Bloomberg report – just a month after opening its doors in the UK.

"The company hasn't yet made a final decision on a sale," Mark Gurman writes, but has "canceled development of a new smartphone".