Oreo Update for Essential Phone Delayed, Will Skip 8.1 Due to ‘Stability Issues’

A couple of weeks dorsum, the Essential Phone received the tertiary Android Oreo beta update, and the visitor confirmed that the public beta was right effectually the corner. However, now it looks like the company has some modify of plans and has decided to skip directly to Android Oreo 8.1.

The same has been confirmed by the visitor via Twitter where information technology said that they're opting to release Android viii.1 for the Essential Telephone instead of Android 8.0. In improver to that, the company likewise confirmed that the public release of Oreo for the Essential Phone would exist delayed by "a couple of weeks," which is quite obvious at this point.

An update on the public release of Oreo: motion picture.twitter.com/fPJRtX7kvY

— Essential (@essential) January 30, 2018

Although this news is quite disappointing for Essential Phone owners, it seems similar a smart move by Essential. Rather than pushing out an update with some known stability bug, Essential has decided to skip information technology altogether and scroll out a (hopefully) stable Android eight.i software.

With that being said, the company currently doesn't take an verbal date for when all Essential Phone owners will be able to download Android 8.one Oreo; nevertheless, it is being speculated that the update should arrive former in February.

Meanwhile, Essential is fine-tuning its Android 8.1 build and will launch a beta build for interested users to test. If yous aren't a part of Essential'due south Oreo program, you can head over to the company's developer page and enroll yourself for the same. We promise everything goes as per the programme and the final Oreo update is made available to anybody soon. Rest assured, nosotros'll go on yous updated every bit new software rolls out to the Essential Phone.