Essential smartphone brand acquired by Carl Pei’s Nothing startup

Late last month, OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei announced his new startup company simply named ‘Nothing’. It was later revealed that the brand plans to release a pair of TWS earbuds. The company has plans to eventually release an ecosystem of devices that could connect to each other. If this sounded familiar it’s because now-defunct smartphone brand Essential was going to do the same. It seems that Essential’s initial intention of creating this ecosystem of devices has aligned with Nothing as a new report reveals. 9to5Google found filings with the UK’s Intellectual Property Office that...