I love the pure Android experience that Andy Rubin has completely captured with this phone

Regardless, I think next time I'll get an iPhone because Android is just too annoying to use with all these issues, and Google certainly isn't fixing them.

BEWARE ***The new update Android P disables the full screen feature

It surprises me how fast it is, and it is great to have pure android

If you like android and want a pure android experience and are also looking for a powerful phone look no further this is an awesome phone.

From it's rock solid build quality to striking looks and snappy performance anyone looking for a new phone that wants to save $$$a buy would be well serves with his phone so long as the camera department isn't a top priority for you

it's an attractive phone that seems to have good build quality, if you can get it for $250 I'd highly recommend it.

Phone has good build quality but that will not sell this phone

It's a good buy for 350$. An above average beautiful phone with great build quality

Excellent screen, excellent build quality, and awesome specifications.

So its nice to get a great phone, with vanilla android and a great price again

All in all, this phone is such an amazing device for such an amazing price

The Good:Great price point for the hardware and metal bodyGreat if you don't like the huge size most flagship phones are going withMetal body feels much more solid than plastic phonesComes with a USB-C to headphone jack adapterThe sleek no frills design really appealed to meThe Meh:The stock camera is all sorts of ok considering it's specs.

I was eyeing the Pixel 2, but I didn't like the price - so I went with this instead

Don't know why), and it just has an amazing price for such a high quality phone

This phone is very easy to like and it's quality is great

So think about it, there are dozens of other phone manufactures that produce similar if not inferior photo quality to the Essential PH-1.

It's a good buy for 350$. An above average beautiful phone with great build quality

I think that it's a great price for the specs that it has and the build quality of the phone

Very good build quality, feels good in my hand and looks great

I could probably live with this phone if the antenna design in the phone wasn't garbage

Love the design of the phone, but the signal loss is horrific

Square design not modern - but the square design is easy to hold

I love the design, and I love using the phone, when it works

I love the design, there is not "junk" installed on the phone, great space at 128gb

The phone feel nice enough but without support attached to it, it's a worthless device.

I was leary about this phone at first, but it is a terrific device and well worth the money

This is essential first build and while it's not a rounded perfect device, if you consider what you need, actually need in a phone, it's perfect

All in all, this phone is such an amazing device for such an amazing price

I can't believe the co-founder of Android would release such a substandard device called the Essential phone

Essential is: a nice phone for a great value; with a great look and a great android experience

I’m a busy person and waiting for 10 seconds, or longer sometimes, when I have emails and work to do ruins my experience with this phone

I love the simple Android experience I get with this phone

This has been a sour experience and I would not recommend anyone getting this phone for now

It is a gorgeous phone and the pure android experience is great; however the overall experience is not so good

Overall this is a great phone for the price, fast, great resolution and performance

Even after the updates, it is typically slow to focus, with tragically bad color rendering, and poor low light performance.

I have the phone for 3 months and performance is pretty good

I love this phone; it's beautiful, I love the feel in my hand, and the performance is fantastic

Even after the updates, it is typically slow to focus, with tragically bad color rendering, and poor low light performance.

And one last thing I will touch in on, I had a Nexus 5X for a long time, liked it overall (Horrible battery life) but the one thing I did like was the form factor of a 5" phone

I highly recommend it if you want a good looking phone, with good battery life, and great sound.

The quality of the phone is outstanding, great battery life, and quick updates

the good: very fast in normal function and great battery life after pie update

As of yesterday, the phone drastically began draining the battery

The screen is beautiful, as well as the rest of the phone.

The rest of the Essential Phone is just as gorgeous as the screen

No friction: I've owned a lot of phones, never once have a cracked a screen or dropped a phone in a way that caused damage

I had my phone on my notebook and due to the slippery body (which I love!), slipped off and cracked the screen

Several months ago, I cracked the screen on my beloved (and fragile

The camera is good enough, not as good as the s7 edge I

As many other reviews said, the camera on the phone is bad

It's still not close to the best available phone camera, but it's good for most uses

The biggest annoyance of this phone is obviously the front camera

I have seen many other video reviews and articles saying that the camera is bad on this phone

The CPU is fast, and although I have experienced a few app crashes or freezes (maybe one a week in the three

Regarding the negative:[-] Delay in saving the picture when using the default camera app (this don't bother me too much as I didn't take photo that

Only issue is the fingerprint censor not working as fast as when I first got it

Regarding the negative:[-] Delay in saving the picture when using the default camera app (this don't bother me too much as I didn't take photo that

Only issue is the fingerprint censor not working as fast as when I first got it

I did a couple weeks of reading and research on it as well as the OnePlus 5t and thought what the heck I'd give it a shot

I did a couple weeks of reading and research on it as well as the OnePlus 5t and thought what the heck I'd give it a shot

but it lacks some of the features that the rear facing camera includes those features being portrait mode, 120 frames per second slow motion, monochrome video and monochrome photo, as well as we don't have a front-facing flash on this device

but it lacks some of the features that the rear facing camera includes those features being portrait mode, 120 frames per second slow motion, monochrome video and monochrome photo, as well as we don't have a front-facing flash on this device

No SD card slot, no wireless charging, no water resistance, a 4K screen to drain the battery capacity even faster, and to top it all off not even a freaking headphone jack

I really liked this phone its worked great for 2 weeks now the screen doesn't turn on

Every time the phone is plugged in to the charger, any charger, I have several different usb-c chargers, slow, fast, standard usb, doesn't matter, it will not charge

Great phone if you just wanna phone, connectivity issues may come up if you push it

Every time the phone is plugged in to the charger, any charger, I have several different usb-c chargers, slow, fast, standard usb, doesn't matter, it will not charge

They include a great charger and USB-C to headphone cable

I'm using T-mobile and live in a strong signal market and Most of the

My signal on T-Mobile is weaker than it should be but still good enough that I can use the phone.

Unfortunately, I will be returning this phone because what good is a phone if you don't have a reliable signal?

I am with TMobile if you want to get good signal use it on 3GThe LTE only get

Major problem for me is unstable LTE signal for Tmobile

The screen was very jittery most of the time other times wasn't sensitive to touch at all until I locked and unlocked it the screen

First time i have ever broken a screen, and it was on a phone i figured could handle a little roughness

Goes from full bars to zero and making phone calls was very bad most times where the person on the other end had a hard time hearing me

In an era of "Break the Bank or Hate Your Phone", the Essential Phone arrives at a perfect time

but you would have a hard time recognizing that at first

I did a couple weeks of reading and research on it as well as the OnePlus 5t and thought what the heck I'd give it a shot

Arguably the 5T is better than the Essential, stats-wise, but the elegant design and stock Android won out in the end.

Phone has software issues even after upgrade to Android Pie

but it lacks some of the features that the rear facing camera includes those features being portrait mode, 120 frames per second slow motion, monochrome video and monochrome photo, as well as we don't have a front-facing flash on this device

I updated the phone thinking it might be a software issue and it seemed to resolve it for a while

The camera is every bit as awful as its been made out to be, no optical focus, half the time the phone doesn't even take the picture

I have found it to be every bit as good (and possibly better in some cases) as my girlfriend's iPhone X camera, so, the updates likely fixed the camera issues

I'm a long time Apple phone person, going back to the original iPhone; but switched and I haven't regretted it one bit

I went from a galaxy note 8 to this phone, and I don't regret it one bit

I don't think it's better than my Pixel XL, but it's every bit as good

When the phone did work it was fast, it was beautiful, but the reception on AT&T was terrible.

poor reception wifi and tmobile, poor camera not worth more

But I usually stay in good reception area so it is not a big problem for me

Does not get good reception, drops calls, and delay with voice mail and text.

It doesn't get good or any reception in my area which is admittedly a marginal area, and will not make calls at times

enough).That review is in no means a vote for the iPhone, I really wanted it to be my new phone, but...

I don’t know why this phone receives so many negative reviews before

Can the Essential phone really compete with the big guys and are all the negative reviews true

I hardly ever write reviews, but I like this phone so much, I felt I needed to do one.

But many positive user reviews convinced me to buy this phone, after buying it and almost a week of use, I can honestly say that it was definitely worth it

I have a Moto Z2 as s work phone

Contrary to a lot of bad press this phone has received in the early days, I've had it for just about a month

I am truly impressed with the battery life and also the 'rapid charge' capability of the supplied charger brick!Much of the negative press over this phone has been due to its camera which, as at Oreo 8.1, is now more than just acceptable, it is actually quite good

This phone has seen a lot of early bad press, but at the current price and feature set, it's a fantastic deal

Heck, even the buttons have a great feel to them when pressed