Hot on the heels lf yesterday's news that Essential Phone sales have reached 50,000 units, we learn the phone is going to get EIS and double tap gesture for waking the phone. The company held it's bi-weekly AMA on Reddit where officials discussed plans and current bugs. Essential officials also discussed Project Treble. That is coming to the PH-1 in the Oreo 8.1 release, but fans might have to wait, since 8.0 is still in beta. The Oreo Beta 2 that was scheduled for this week, but got postponed in the last minute after encountering "a few regressions". It should arrive on Monday and...
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