I love the pure Android experience, light, quick and simple.

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.

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

The good:-As mentioned previously, the no-nonsense, bloatware-free Android is beautiful

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.

Give us a longer cable, expandable storage, and a truly damage resistant build that lets us skip cases, and you'll have the phone it should be

Excellent screen, excellent build quality, and awesome specifications.

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

This phone is for people who are tired of the weak, bland build of modern smartphone companies

This phone, however, beats the nexus by a landslide with its beautiful solid build

Too many bugs, Lower its price only in few months for half... doesn't make any sense for me..

It's not a flagship phone, but a great high end phone for a great price

Speaking of cameras, something we have not taken advantage of yet is the ability to equip the Essential with accessories like the Essential 360 Camera with Black Pill Case that allows you to record "360 videos and photos" that "can be shared and viewed on Facebook, youtube, and Google photos."It's pretty cool, with a hefty $200 price tag, but these accessories are forward-compatible, meaning they can be used on future Essential devices, which is a great selling point given the investment

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

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

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

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

Camera is ok, not terrible, but everything else about the phone screams flagship and quality

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

IMO the notch was a stupid design choice for this size of phone

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

I was unhappy with my 5C (which had terrible service on Verizon due to what I'm guessing was bad antenna design)

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

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

Fixing those two issues would make this a great device for me

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

Interesting device, but kind of inconvenient because most phone cases would have to be

If you're looking for a solid Android device, you should consider this phone.

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

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

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

The experience is like no other Android phone on the market

Great phone, it's an unbelievable experience on this price-tag

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

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

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

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.

Great screen, great looking phone, great battery life, high quality craftsmanship.

It drains your battery MUCH faster than even 1440p screens for almost no actual visual benefit aside from better camera previews

Pretty good phone, fast, feels great and has really good battery life

And you will have to buy new Phone Chargers, because it won't charge quickly with other USB-C. And that 360 camera attachment will drain Battery Quickly!

This phone has got to have the worst battery life of any phone I've ever owned

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

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

I have had no issue seeing the screen in bright sunlight

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

Screen cracked first day and their customer service is voicemail only

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

The worst camera I have ever seen on a phone with this price tag

Now, in poor lighting, the Essential camera is not very good

The biggest annoyance of this phone is obviously the front camera

Camera could have been little better and no head phone jack.

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

n’t have signal in most of house and I missed a lot of phone calls, but the phone is great build and overall a great product except if you have low signal in your house it will compromise your call quality up to having missed calls

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

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

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 MicroSD card.- Selfie camera intrudes slightly onto screen- Tmobile signal strength not as

too often there will be terrible scrolling lag or the phone will freeze up completely for up to a minute

Great phone, no problems at all getting it to work with Verizon network aside from having to turn off "Enhanced 4G LTE Mode" to make calls

Had poor signal when I first got the phone but an android update 2 weeks after I bought

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

Major problem for me is unstable LTE signal for Tmobile

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

If you live in an area with with a mid to poor signal, you will get no signal on this phone.

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

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

I say the app because it cannot be the camera, due to the promised updates that have made the phone on par with other flagships, it has truly been a pleasure to see the updates as Essential roles them out, every time I am shocked at the amount of improvement

Historically, I have found that the 2 or 3 month mark is the best time to look back at a phone and determine if the right phone was purchased.

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

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

There is a couple more but, if you know tech, this is all software issue

I installed all the updates and did not have any software issues

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

Out of the box the phone had some software issues but Essential has been pushing updates at an amazing rate

Low light is only part is struggles a bit with but most phones do

In terms of the speaker calls they were very loud but they lacked a little bit of clarity in my

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

Added a clear TPU case for a better grip and a bit of protection

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

poor reception wifi and tmobile, poor camera not worth more

Poor LTE RECEPTION on T-MOBILE forced me to return this amazing phone

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

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

My ideal phone, but hampered by poor LTE reception which is a deal breaker as I have no WiFi

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

This is a comprehensive review of this phone after few months of usage/ international usage

Some reviews were negative on the stability of Android on the Essential Phone.

I have it on T-mobile, the reviews have trashed this phone

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

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 for me despite all the negative press is the best phone for me in 2017

I have a Moto Z2 as s work phone

I have a Moto Z2 as s work phone