Elegant design and android build at the right price

PROS:- excellent design

It’s basically like a Pixel phone, but with a better screen and more impressive physical design

The design of the phone is really well thought out

There is a whitepaper online that explains why, overcoming the rf challenges of full screen smartphones, this was just poor design)-Terrible Wi-Fi strength

I think Essential has done a great job keeping things simple but again really well designed

Fast with great battery lifeBeautiful design that seems resistant to damageCharges pretty quickly and lasts all day with decent to heavy useLots of storage spaceNo bugs or incompatibility yetFingerprint reader and buttons in a great location

Whew, I am spoiled now, and may never go back to an Android skin if I can avoid it.2) Beautiful design, and solid build quality.3

Enviable design (had the notch BEFORE the Apple iPhone X), clean Android interface, good support

Best hardware on the planet in a super sleek design of Zirconia and Titanium

The Essential PH-1 is an elegant, powerful, and smooth-working device that is as well designed, physically, as any phone I have ever held in my hands

The Essential Phone has a rather impressive screen and overall design that comes up just short as a flagship phone, but is highly competitive as a mid-tier device

Amazing materials of construction, beautiful display and design, very fast and clean

If you love the design of the Essential Phone and plan on using it naked the Black Moon version is not the one to buy.

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

This design is honestly amazing and it feels great

At first,very well to use,smooth,and I like the design,it's

No bloatware, super clean design

Great design with high end specs and an active, supportive company to boot

Fancy build and design with an amazing screen, software is clean with no bloatware and gets updates all the 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.

I'll say that, unequivocally, the Essential PH-1 is the best-designed phone I've ever owned, by a wide margin

If you like the design, go for it

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

I love the phone the design is awesome and quality is top notch

Same thing with the mic, since it is at the bottom edge pointing downward, the phone it doesn't pick up as well as other designs.

(this was supposed to happen 2 months ago).still love the industrial design.. but its painfully clear that the product was rushed out

(this was supposed to happen 2 months ago).still love the industrial design.. but its painfully clear that the product was rushed out

Simple and elegant design is so nice

The Essential Phone is well designed with an innovative edge to edge screen, more than all day battery, smaller form factor that's easy to hold and premium build quality

Nice design and picture, been using it for a while now, it seems a little slow now maybe becaus of all the games I have in it

After doing some research, I found the Essential phone, which had everything I wanted in a phone;-Great newly designed, sleek bezel-Big screen, small phone

I like the design, but it's not quite so striking as some would have you believe

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

It is a solid nice looking phone, with a great design

Design is beautiful

In short, design is amazing

This is the best-designed, most beautiful phone ever

The design was beautiful but the software was sub par.

love the essential phone great design and no bloatware and stock andoid is awesome with Android pie on

Beautiful phone, slick design, shining back which is much better than the selfie camera!5

The design of it is so beautiful

I wish it had an OLED display and some more significant water resistance, but other wise, the build and the bundle here is a very nice phone with premium feel and stellar design that should last for several years

Bunch of jokers designed this product.3

It's funny how we look at phones in the store naked, admiring their size and design and weight, but then have to protect them in a bulky case.

Excellent battery life, great build quality and design, and it does everything I need it to

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

Fantastic industrial design

The design is terrific, the materials very well chosen

The design of this phone is great too

Nice design and fantastic photo quality

was more than advertised by .2 oz (& the phone is too heavy)The design of the glass looks cool (aside from the notch), but is very fragile if droppedSomething is wrong with the microphone that causes poor audio quality and occasional feedback when recording videosThe cell reception is not so great

The difference is that it really is the best design, both aesthetics and materials, that I've seen in a mobile device yet

* Minimal design* Good

Excellent design, high quality phone, camera and video (sound) capture the best I've seen

The quality build and materials along with a gorgeous design are exactly as advertised.

I love the stock Android and the great design

Its design is unmatched

This is designed for the young, always "on" types who don't care about technology, just convenience and instant connectedness

The bezel-less design looks gorgeous, and the little camera notch at the top seems to disappear almost immediately

The design is sleek and cool

Beautiful beautiful design

The design and build of the phone is spectacular and it feels amazing to hold and to use

- Lame design

It is a well-designed phone

Honestly smart design overall!

While Essential is supposedly working on a charging dock that connects via the magnetic pins, it doesn't support wireless charging on the Qi standard, which is an inconvenience for those who are used to this feature.-Smooth Design - While it feels great to hold in your hand, the smooth design of this phone means that it will easily slide off smooth surfaces (like pants), so putting this phone on your lap without a case could lead to an unfortunate fall

Fingerprint censor works well- good notch design-i wish there was a

Perfect design

Pros :-Much faster than my Iphone 6 that I'm replacing it with.-Beautiful design-Minimal android version - Meaning

The design is striking and the feel in the hand is great although it is a bit slippery

The design choices that I hated up

I like the design and materials, the fact that it fits in my hand, there's no bloatware, the edge to edge display, the titanium protected edges, and the ceramic back

The PH-1 has the most amazing design I've seen on a phone in a very long time

Flawless design, user friendly and everything works just great

No that I see how disappointing the design of the pixel 2 is I am glad I went with the Essential

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

If water resistance is a key issue for you then this would negate the benefits of robustness and size (below)Size: efficient design plus no case makes it nicely smaller (see photo)See the photo attached of the S7e and Essential.

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

It seems that the battery life actually increased in this preview as well, it seems that Android's new "Adaptive battery" works wonders (I got over 8 hours of SOT a few days ago, with only 20 percent recharging in between, playing Ingress afterwards, which is a heavy battery drainer normally).Also, the general smoothness of the device got noticably better, the animations on P are really nice (even though I still hate the new Android design, lol)

The design is very modern and fits in with most flagships as a very minimal bezel is very in right now

Beautiful design and look

I think part of the feedback feel is due to the solid body design with the titanium and ceramic

and I also didn't like the design as much

The design and build is excellent, as is the display

Impecable build quality and beautiful design

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

first props for very nice design great heft and feel in hand

, it's so premium, best quality device, fast, incredible fast, very good looking design,..., awesome

My assessment at this point is that it is a bad design, badly implemented, with no real support, and really expensive

I really like the industrial design and the lack of

Good design

Beautiful design and feel -:gets a lot of attention

Perfect size, beautiful design, fast, smooth stock Android

The way it fits in your hand and the way it feels and looks all reinforce good design and high quality

you can the top flagship phone on the market, beautiful design especially the back, Pure Android mean no bloatware or flatware, 120 Gb memory

Definitely nice design Cellphone with good hardware and android system, worth the money.

Perfect design in all fashion's

Got the Black Friday deal so worth a try - great hardware design, needs work on the software.

Superior build, superior industrial design, superior specifications, excellent, clean operating system and installed apps, excellent cellular/wifi and virtually every band available

Although the phone hardware is well designed, Essential did not include some ideal features like water-resistence, a headphone jack, and an OLED display

Build quality is fantastic, design is beautiful, updates are plentiful.

The design is truly exquisite

seller was amazing but the phone it self was just not me, got hot easily and was pretty glitchy from the start, much preferred the pixel even though the design of this phone is better

Extremely poor design choice, in my opinion

but there's a serious design flaw that Essential refuses to officially acknowledge--the porcelain used in the phone's body seems to interfere with cell reception.

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

I didn't like the small body, though, as I like the way my Nexus fits in my hands

On the positive I adore how simple this phone is

Perfect mobile,835+4g+128g,super lcd screen,and 27w

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

Super fast 4G, fast WiFi and hot spot, and super clear phone

Enhanced 4G LTE Mode-Preferred network type

I had to turn off the enhanced 4g for it to work

service TracFone is using all I know is that my 4 year old S5 has a rock solid 4G/LTE connection in my office and the PH-1 cycled between

I still have the first gen Moto G which works with no issues (except for the expected slight sluggishness because of the age).