Essential Phone skips Android Oreo 8.0 due to stability issues
 

Android phonemaker Essential is skipping over Android Oreo 8.0 despite running a beta program for the platform these past two months. Apparently, it discovered several stability issues in 8.0 during testing, which it believes will be addressed by 8.1...

https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/31/...roid-oreo-8-0/