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

Just not awesome enough to keep a phone that has substandard performance.

Performance after a week of heavy use is great

Pathetic low-light performance

The camera is very good not "spectacular", performance is stellar, storage is spectacular.

Excellent phone with great performance

Performance across the board is great with minimal bugs

No crash reboots.. performance is amazing

This phone has everything I need: rock solid construction, blazing fast performance, easy to unlock and actually use, a big vivid screen in a small form factor, and plenty of storage.

Oh, it's pretty and all, and the performance seems good .. don't get me

Performance is fast

Performance is fantastic.

Top notch performance at a great price.

It's not a bad phone, and works, but don't expect super premium materials performance like in the spec list.

Man the judderfree superfast performance, and top notch built quality and a superior (if not the best) at the price of mid budget phone make the Essential a must have

Love the no bloatware, the massive hard drive, and overall performance

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

I really want to like this phone, but if the bad performance is a consistent problem I will have to look elsewhere and await a future generation of this phone

Robust phone, great performances (snap 835, 4Gb, ...); decent camera, superb screen

Pros: fantastic build quality and design (much less fragile than my S8+), excellent performance and power, generous storage, useful larger screen, and beautiful display.

The updates have dramatically improved its performance, but it still doesn't do great in lower light and most of the time pictures come out undersaturated

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

The battery life, with a little tweaking easily lasts me 3.5 to 4 days, with around 5-6 hours of screen on time, easily as long distance as my E4 plus was but with better performance in apps I use

UPDATE 12/4/17After two months of use, I still think this is a very good phone with smooth, fast, reliable performance

Can't complain the performance to price

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

A premium feeling phone, great performance/speed, and I love the display

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

For half the cost the phone feels just as snappy performance wise

The hardware is top notch, extremely high quality build and feel and flawless performance

It's small things like this that make the Essential phone truly enjoyable to use.+The Camera - While this phone started off with terrible camera performance, the many updates to the camera app have caused me to truly enjoy taking pictures

If you are looking for a phone that has good enough performance for most things look at options below $400 like Honor 7X, Moto G or X series, HTC U11 Life

Pathetic contrast performance (ie if you take a picture of a room and focus on the room itself, during the daytime the window in the background will appear white from over exposure)

My 2 cents, if you're considering a new phone that is bloat free and has good solid performance but don't have the paper to buy an $800 trophy, grab this one up, even if in two years essential is liquidated I still love this

Great screen, very fast and snappy performance.

Top end performance

Performance wise, this ranks up there with all of them

Snappy performance and the durability is amazing

I love its high performance, design, form, surface, and colour.

Over the past month+, though, there have been several updates that have improved the camera performance and consistency, and have cleaned-up random freezes.

Fast performance throughout

just smooth continuous performance.

I really want to like this phone, but if the bad performance is a consistent problem I will have to look elsewhere and await a future generation of this phone

Acceptable but not great camera performance; acceptable but not great external speaker; rare but occasional sub par touch screen response to very precise movements.

To summarize - nice phone, overall good performance, DURABILITY - VERY LOW WITH HIGH RISK, AS FINDING

Build quality is supper and performance is better than my Nexus 5x

Beautiful piece of hardware, very smooth performance, great display.

fast performance and the screen is amazing

Occasionally, the phone does have some glitches but the developers are regularly putting out updates to improve performance

Been using it for two weeks; certainly have enjoyed the experience of a flagship phone so far, mainly due to the excellent performance as a result of premium material and hardware specs

then its performance improved 100 percent

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

The device worked good for a while, it is minimal like I wanted, quick performance, battery lasts a full day with no problem and the overall feel was great

I didn't pay the price of a new S8 or X and I got great performance

This seemed to be a common issue with the early batches (I purchased the phone in October 2017).Otherwise, aside from the touch latency and the slow camera (at the time; updates seemed to have improved the performance), the phone was solid.

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

The form factor; the feel in my hand; the glassy smooth performance; the super fast booting; the lovely edge-to-edge display; and the (surprisingly) consistently excellent battery life

, I found performance to be excellent

really good deal :)-Performance outstanding-Pure android-the best screen ratio on the market over newer devices-128gb HD

The performance is totally fine

After keeping the phone on for a while (days rather than hours), performance degrades noticeably, and it also degrades when I have several memory-hog apps open simultaneously--although that problem is typically solved by simply closing the offending apps.

Much better screen, great performance, solid build quality, and it will get 1-2 more Android version updates past the Nexus (P is in beta, and Q is promised if the company holds on that long).

Smooth software performance, camera not top, but ok

Great performance, display and feel

I flashed the Oreo beta onto it, and the performance is generally pretty good, I couldn't reproduce most of the common issues with this phone

Snappy performance and plenty of on board store {128gb} and it gets updates right away

Performance is great, screen size too

I love the look and performance

--Exterior:-The build quality is excellent, the ceramic back feels like a porcelain plate, its super slippery, but feels very good.-The plastic layer between the titanium and screen is clearly visible on the white model, but the 2 layers are perfectly flush to the micrometer level.-The weight (in combination with the ceramic) definitely gives the phone a premium feeling--Hardware:-Yes the camera is sub-par, Essential has been pushing software updates for the camera, but the lack of OIS and the relatively bad low-light performance are hardware issues and cannot be fixed with software

If you're a fan of stock android, fast smooth performance, and beautifully designed devices, there shouldn't be much of a debate

Excellent form factor, zippy and buttery smooth performance

The selfie camera has a good performance, but I don't take many selfies to make a decent evaluation, but he pics looks good against selfies from iPhone, Samsung and my old Nexus

I like this phone, good performance, good camera (camera software is not the best) but you can take good pictures with this camera

The phone worked and look great, the sound quality was good, the screen was amazing, and the performance was great

The camera, absolutely terrible performance in low light

About the only thing I really missed was the truly excellent camera performance of the S8+.

Performance is very good

All in all it is an incredible device with a very premium feel and lightning fast performance

The o ly bad part is having to log back into your apps when you open them for the first time

Horrible Quality Control on an otherwise nice design o_01st unit (on the right) had terrible connectivity issues, especially with Wi-Fi, with no definitive information if it is hardware, software, or both.2nd unit (on the left) has what is called "light bleed" on this LCD panel which is something I Am unfamiliar with, I received a notification and thought my screen was broke, downloaded a screen test app to confirm, what I was seeing on the ambient screen, or even watching a video, it is pretty distracting and discomfort when viewing.

A couple of my installed Apps are not working as yet, but they will be updated soon.

and it may not be as smooth as a

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 have never broken a

It just works as

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

just works as it should for me.

It worked as good as on my Nexus 5x

No MicroSD card.- Selfie camera intrudes slightly onto screen- Tmobile signal strength not as

I do wish it had a dedicated headphone jack but the included USB-C adapter works well enough and seems to be of high quality

No headphone jack (I love USB-C)

845 chipset(c) Worst complaint is on the lack of headphone.

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

Crosschecked the USB-C to UCB-C cable and (AUT) power adapter, all working fine

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

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

My Bose QC25 headphones do not work properly with the USB-C/3.5mm adapter