It took Essential two extra months to ship the white version of its phone, and it sounds like it could be a couple months more before the company has put out all four colors that it promised at launch. In a Reddit AMA yesterday, Essential design VP Dave Evans wrote that the catchy “Ocean Depths” model still had “lingering issues … that don’t meet our standards.” It’s not totally clear how far from a launch it still is, but Evans said that it’s “getting so close.”

Before that happens, Essential expects to ship the matte black version of its phone, known as Stellar Gray. That model is coming “very soon,” according to Linda Jiang, Essential’s head of industrial design. Asked why the gray model was delayed, Essential product design…

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