Love the processor, storage, and great screen for the sale price I paid for it.

but this screen feels amazing

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

My Essential phone - The screen is very nice

Great specs, fantastic build quality, and the screen is massive

It's really good, the screen is great, it feels good in your hands, it's a perfect size

Google transferred EVERYTHING over to our new phones from old phones, and we even were able to update to Oreo 8.1, all within 10 minutes!Phone is very quick, screen is bright, no rolling lag and camera works fine

Not OLED, but it's an excellent screen that gets bright enough to see outdoors- stock, clean Android

Screen is good for an

I've never cracked a screen before because I always used cases

Stock Android, beautiful screen, super responsive, and the build quality is unrivaled

When I broke my S7 screen, I took a chance on this

# Excellent screen, software, build quality# Android 9 pie on first day!

It's got a nice screen but the speaker is a bit weak

The screen and colors are beautiful too

This phone comes with excellent QHD screen with 16:10 aspect ratio.16:10 aspect ratio makes the screen perfect for a casual

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

The screen looks nice as well

Fast forward to nearly two whole months of ownership and the thing fell out of my pocket while I was sitting at my desk and shattered the screen when it hit the floor--from a whole 17" off the ceramic tiles

Love the edge to edge screen and wife even felt the Essential screens were even clearer then previous

The screen is great (I would love to see an OLED on the next model, but this one is plenty clear and bright)

I love the screen to body ratio, the pure Android experience, the monochrome mode camera, build quality, and speaker.

I received a phone with a defective screen

The build quality is exceptional, the screen is beautiful, the weight of the phone is great and importantly it runs STOCK Android

To finally have it in my hand though and see that big beautiful screen come on

The screen is responsive, and the use of space on the screen is efficient

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

Give me something other than a glass brick, with a pointless notch, that all it does, is cut into actual usable screen space

Screen also stutters when scrolling.camera is terrible

The plastic antenna lines and the trim (that protects your screen) are colored (not painted) and thus won't loose their color from wear and tear

Great build quality, nice screen, snappy

The worst part is there isn't even any good screen protectors out to protect it

Beta ( I will).Pros:*Solid build, feels great in the hand*Great screen to body

Great screen, very fast and snappy performance.

The phone has a very premium feel in the hand and the screen is sharp and easy to read

Just pure black screen, it vibrates but nothing on screen

The Key2 was my number 1, but my budget wouldn't allow for it or the Galaxy S9.The Essential Phone has a large, beautiful screen in a diminutive chassis that is smaller and slightly heavier than my 6S Plus

The hardware is great, beautiful huge screen in a small package for easy one-handed use

I think the screen had a temporary freeze once or twice in two months, but it lasts for about 2 seconds and then its gone

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

x pure: runs Android; great looking, large, and very bright screen; great audio from the front facing stereo speakers; great camera; no bloatware; a quick way to launch the camera which was the same whether locked or unlocked; fast and smooth; durable and scratch-resistant; a headphone jack

The screen is good but not great compared to oleds found on samsung and apple.

I’d like the screen to be brighter / colors to be more vivid

The vast majority of negative reviews for this product were rage-posted immediately after a clumsy drop onto a hard surface caused an uncased, unprotected device's screen to crack (as screens do)

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

Did a restart, hard reset, power off/on but the device didn't seem to respond nor reviving the screen

The screen is nice

Great Phone - Great Spec's - Size and Screen all good

They're not the loudest, but they're loud enough to the point where I've never had them past 40%.-Fingerprint scanner is fast and responsive, but the screen takes half a second to turn on.-The Snapdragon 835 is nice and snappy and can handle split screening without a hiccup (no pun intended)-Battery life for me has been in the 8+ hour screen on time (SOT) range, despite being a below average 3,000

Takes incredible pictures, massive screen, incredible customer service

The screen is great

Viewing angles are not the best, and it isn't the brightest screen out there, but it crystal clear and sharp

The screen is great, but not top of class

Screen: very good, but slightly less bright

It was in perfect condition otherwise because i brought a good case and protective screen.

I know people that bought it and suffered a cracked or shattered screen from a minor drop

UI is super smooth (on both Nougat and Oreo beta), the screen is absolutely killer

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

Speaker: Very loud and clear*Battery: amazing battery life, looks like it will allow for 2-3x the screen on time of the moto x which ranged from 2 to 3 hours

I had just texted about 15 minutes before the screen went dark

The programming is as cheap as the screen.

Screen is bright enough and Android works good - no issues for me

Room for improvement: every once in a while the screen gets laggy or unresponsive

What good is a titanium frame and ceramic back when the ceramic is so slippery it sends your phone for a crash landing and the screen and

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

Screen scratches and the edges chip very easily

gb stock storage-Great screen resolution (just below the iphone x and galaxy

I initially thought the screen looked horribly dull until I found that setting, then I was like holy crap!

For the negatives not many - camera is acceptable but not fantastic, a little heavy, and screen is dimmer than some.

The sleek case and the huge screen on the front give it a very distinctive and sexy look

Battery is awesome, screen is awesome, no complaints

I have had no issue seeing the screen in bright sunlight

I would recommend getting a case and screen protector as the screen it very sensitive.

I have bought and received 3 defective devices with the most recent being screen bleeding and failure to respond to touch.

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

- In comparison to some Flagship phones, this screen isn't as impressive.

One issue I had was finding a good screen protector for this phone.

The Titanium and ceramic feel great (though very smooth, easy to slide off clothing if it's resting on your leg) and the screen is sharp with really wide viewing angles

Excellent screen, excellent build quality, and awesome specifications.

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

While the screen is really cool, most apps don't know to move the status bar to the top of the phone, where the camera notch is, so the screen tends to just have a black band at the top, mirroring the actual black bezel on the bottom of the phone

Also, and im not sure if every one had this problem, but I felt myself having to tap the screen twice before it would register my touch, like the screen didn't realize i was selecting an option

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

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.

Get a good case and screen protector, screen is very fragile and not cheap to replace since it's a fairly rare phone

The screen is beautiful, and it still feels as quick as the day I received it

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

It's fast my father's iPhone X, the screen is as good as my sisters Samsung 9, and I spend 25%.What else is amazing is the camera add-on you can get for $35.

I mean you get the top of the line CPU/GPU Snapdragon 835, 4GB of ram, 128GB of internal storage and a beautiful screen that almost covers the entire front of the phone.

PHONE- gorgeous screen (great black levels and punchy colors even though it's not OLED)- great user experience and latest software / extremely fast updates

The screen is good, not OLED, but at least it's not plague by the burning in problem that's affecting the Pixel 2 XL.Battery life is excellent

However, sometimes when rotation while using the google app, the screen flashes and sometimes freezes

I really loved the phone besides those two problems, screens great, the speed, and I love the updates along with the feel of the phone

The screen, which should be Gorilla Glass 5, already has micro scratches from putting it in and out of jeans pocket

Easily lasts the entire day with about 30% left at the end- the screen is really nice

It's fantastic to carry in the pocket because of the wonderful screen to body ratio

I just got the new white version and this phone looks awesome and feels awesome in the hand, the screen is beautiful very colorful and vibrant not as vibrant as my Samsung s8 but still really sharp

It broke after dropping it from about waist height onto concrete, which I understand, but after paying $200 for a replacement and receiving it the phone slid off of where it was charging and fell 3 ft on to a soft, padded carpet, and the screen shattered the same way as when it fell onto concrete, and when I contacted essential they said there was nothing they could do about it except offer a $200 replacement

Love the size the screen the feeling and the sharpness.

Otherwise, nice screen quality, decent camera, fast, doesn't slow down.

I have never had a phone with such a terrible screen

and I've never had to clean the screen I've never had a phone like this before

Screen is nice, but if the max/min brightness improves a bit, it will be a huge plus

I have had large devices like the Xiaomi Mi Max 2 with large chins and a 6.4" display and even though I loved the screen and

The screen is responsive and sharp, I have had a lot of people ask me about the phone and comment about how great the screen is

The form factor is perfect - enough screen to do anything on but just small enough to use with one hand

The screen is marketed as a "full screen" which it is when you are just looking at the home screen, but as soon as you go into any app or webpage, the only visible part of screen is below the front facing camera, so your actual usable screen is smaller and not "full screen".

The screen is bright and clear although at 5.7 inches it is way to small.

I also love having a larger screen in the same size of phone

The screen is crisp and very bright with a nice neutral white color temperature

From the photos, you can clearly see that despite the Essential being, edge-to-edge, a significantly smaller phone, the usable screen space is pretty close, due to the near-bezel-less screen on the Essential

I think the non-amoled screen is stunning (at 1312 x 2560).No bloat

How could you make a product with such a fragile screen with zero way to get it repaired

What they don't tell you is that the screen is very susceptible to cracking if the phone is dropped face down from a height of even a few feet.

Then it’s just a murky gray screen that’s eating up battery unlike the OLEDs which only light up the time, etc

So then why the three stars?I have had it 3 months, just dropped it 4 feet onto a memory foam bathmat and it cracked the screen..

It may be the font and icon size or just the silly new stretched format but it seems like a tiny screen compared to my 5.5 inch screen

is super fast with the correct charger, and the form factor is perfect, a large screen on a smaller body

Awesome piece of hardware, great screen and software.

Battery is awesome, screen is awesome, no complaints

The phone it self is nice, nice screen large screen with very little boarders

Used it for one month and the screen went dark and nothing could be done to fix it

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

Impressive phone, build with top hardware (Snapdragon 835, Adreno 540, 4 GB RAM), beautiful screen with 84.9% screen-to-body ratio (highest in the market), large storage space - 128 GB, best design on the flagship phones (titanium frame / ceramic back), the camera is just fine, the improvement with all the software updates is notorious,

Phone looks good and the screen looks very nice

: I charge overnight, use the heck out of the phone all day with everything turned on (WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, decent screen brightness) at the end of my day (midnight

It does not get very bright outdoors but it does pretty well and the screen to body ratio is fantastic

Screen is bright enough and Android works good - no issues for me

It is the best cell phone you can buy, excellent quality, very good screen, incredible battery life,

jack- kinda wish this was Skinner and longer like the Samsung S9-screen is not the Best in the screen

Great screen, and feels nice to hold.

The screen is vibrant and beautiful - probably the best I've seen so far, and I love that it's edge to edge.

It's the best LCD screen I've ever seen on a phone, and the screen to surface ratio is impressive

Amazing screen

I still have some small complaints about the stock camera (too basic of controls to really make the pictures look better) and have some small technical issues every once in a while (might be an isolated incident, but have phantom presses/gestures that require me to shut my screen off and clean it to fix which is odd considering how clean I keep it)

Excellent screen while it does have a slight glow on black background

Great screen and a good size

, it's very difficult to find a decent screen protector, that said, I'm actually hesitant to cover it anyway because this thing is a real pleasure to look at anyway

The screen is great.

Don't buy, my new phone had a slightly loose screen and smashed in the first week

The screen is great, but not top of class

When I first received the phone I loved it, it is beautifully crafted and feels wonderful, with a smooth surface and a nice weight, the screen, and features are also very premium, but the screen is ridiculously easy to break

When I first received the phone I loved it, it is beautifully crafted and feels wonderful, with a smooth surface and a nice weight, the screen, and features are also very premium, but the screen is ridiculously easy to break

no freezing, the screen is just amazing.

Unfortunately, the edge-to-edge usable screen apparently makes this impossible

beautiful screen and build though.

Just pure black screen, it vibrates but nothing on screen

Though, after turning up the brightness a bit it is a solid screen, no complaints now

Screen is beautiful and the whole phone is elegant and almost seamless

The screen is nice and bright.

The screen is 10x better than the Pixel 2 & 2 XL

no problems, after that the screen would't come back.

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

data didn’t work the screen and key board would freeze

but I am just shocked that a fall (2 feet max) can damage the screen (the only reason to buy the phone to begin with)

It does have some visable banding in bright light which is annoying and makes the screen look cheap

The build quality is on another level and the screen is a pleasure to look at

Operation is silky smooth and the screen is very clear with accurate colors

This phone checks all the boxes for me: 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a good camera setup, beautiful screen, and great battery life

The biggest issue - this phone is basically disposable, there are no replacement parts available, if you break the screen you are out of luck

The screen is amazing

That combined with the Essential phone that starts to lose gesture precision as the screen gets dirty and the result is a marginal experience.

Amazing build qaulity, and screen just as I wanted

Pros-- Beautiful edge-to-edge screen: rich vibrant accurate color, 2560 x 1312 QHD, 503 pixels per inch, 500 nits brightness, 1:1000 contrast-- Compact for screen size: 5.7" screen, 19:10 aspect ratio-- Sleek

The screen is nice and bright, although I did receive a version that seemed too dark at first even on its brightest setting (Essential was happy to replace it with no extra cost)

Screen (lovely, the sometimes criticised brightness is more than enough even in direct sun light), working speed and battery (surprisingly decent for the capacity).Noteworthy downsides are the camera (improved software but the output is still nowhere near the top phones, comes not even close to my Nexus especially in low light conditions, installing the Google Camera app helps but there is still a considerable gap), the average at best mobile signal strength and the really weak wireless signal strength

The screen is gorgeous, the battery easily lasts a day with room to spare (I often get two days of light/moderate use), the build quality is nonpareil, the speed and responsiveness are lightning-fast, and there are no dings or scratches after nine months of daily use

I installed a full body protector from IQ shield, probably the liquid in there broke the screen

Better because of the better materials with a better screen

The screen is definitely not the brightest, sharpest, or clearest.

The screen is gorgeous.

Great screen

The screen is beautiful, edge to edge.

When comparing the screen size to the Apple 8 Plus, the Essential PH-1 has a larger overall useful screen size (eliminating the dead black space around the iPhones's screen).

The screen although not oled, very crisp and blacks are not too washed out for led.

Then the screen stopped working

Screen is good

The screen breaks so easy I'm cnvinced it is not real gorilla glass and my charge port came broke.

The screen is Crystal clear, scrolling has no lag and the support is great with latest Android updates

The screen is beautiful and the speaker sound is great

no freezing, the screen is just amazing.

The screen is very nice, colors are vibrant and true

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

THE GOOD- Screen

can last a long time heavy use.update: it drop on concrate and break the screen, it still work, but many broken glasses i have to tape it

The Essential Phone has a lot to offer: stock Android, great screen, decent battery life, and expansive storage.

The screen would randomly freeze and the only way to get it back was to hit the power button and wake it back up

The screen will freeze for minutes at a time now

So on to the showstopper, the screen on this phone is fantastic

Great screen

But the titanium body won't protect the (Gorilla Glass) screen any better than any other if your phone falls in such a way that the glass screen hits the floor first

The battery life is good overall, it has up to date high end specs, a beautiful screen, amazing build quality, you just cannot go wrong for under $500.Things I would change-I want a headphone port-Even though it has 128GB of storage (Amazing!

The screen is very clear and crisp however not the brightest of screens

It has a great screen it does not

Touch screen is inaccurateTouch screen is unresponsive some timesThe touch screen tech they use is visible at certain anglesScreen scratches easily, never had so many small scratches on a screen beforePhone is slow, takes long to load appsNo wireless chargingNo memory cardFingerprint reader is finicky and takes multiple attemptsOverall a huge downgrade from my

It feels great, looks great, has an extremely snappy Snapdragon 835, and the screen is crisp and responsive

The screen is brilliant and it is more stylish than the google pixel phone which i returned to get this one

The screen is impressive

The screen will often lose touch sensitivity in part of it, I mean once or twice a day, but it is annoying

When you pull this phone out of your pocket, hold it in your hand, reach across the screen with one hand, and look at the great screen, you'll probably get what I'm saying

Amazing screen, the OS is CLEAN to an extreme, very very responsive, I have installed the official Oreo beta and its very stable

Screen is nice and gets bright enough and dark enough to be comfortable in all situations, I don't necessarily miss amoled

It’s the nicest touch screen I’ve run my finger across to be honest… so smooth

Although choosing an excellent IPS instead of an OLED display, may not seem ideal, when considering the Pixel 2 phone's OLED screen blue haze issue, and Apple's supply issue with their OLED displays, Essential made the obvious choice

Screen is very sharp and beautiful

Now for what's wrong with this phone and company:screen is surprisingly dim

Love the screen and build quality

I'm sure the screen is more efficient

It is good in all the way performance, camera, battery, smoothness, size(very interesting to work with 5.7" screen too handy than even when compare to

no bloatware and touch screen is really good

Screen cracked first day and their customer service is voicemail only

Top notch screen, plenty bright, good colors

So if you buy the phone , do take measures to protect the screen

I've never broken a screen, knock on wood, in 5+ years

Screen is BEAUTIFUL - and IPS won't burn in like AMOLED.

Nice fast phone, unlockable, with good ROM and rooting support on XDA.Speaker is pretty loud, screen is great, and the Snapdragon 835 is faster than just about any phone out there.

The screen is pretty good, but I do prefer the amoled screen of my

There aren't many *good* screen protectors though so keep that in mind

The screen is pretty good, but I do prefer the amoled screen of my

For those who want a simple, quality unlocked phone with a great screen and unique looks and feel, this is a good choice at the current price

The tiny bezels make it feel like you're just holding a screen in your hand

Haven't seen a good screen protector yet.

I love the big screen

A fall of about two feet striking a glancing blow on a rock dinged the titanium frame and shattered the glass screen

fast performance and the screen is amazing

Nice phone but fell off couch on my tile floor and cracked the screen right away

Love the screen and ample storage

I've never broken a screen, knock on wood, in 5+ years

+ Great looks/feel, screen, battery life, speed, decent camera,

One really positive note for the phone is that it's probably the brightest screen I have ever used on a phone, and I've had a bunch of top tier phones

I love the full screen and this phone fits nicely in my pocket

Screen-on time is fair

I've noticed the screen jittery thing going on, and the speaker is kind of muffled since it comes out the bottom.

Screen is beautiful

I've dealt with sticky screens before (the screen on our Xperia doesn't feel the nicest)

Even cheaper android device have better screen sensibility than this device

No carrier bloatware, the phones look good, charge quickly and have a great screen

Beautiful screen and resolution/clarity

Love the screen, love the size in my hand, and specially love Android Pie

The screen is bright, refined, without the garish colors that is so popular on other phones, and easy to read in sunlight

* screen is awesome and beautiful to look at

screen shattered from a fall of about a foot

Most of the time, the notification bar fits nicely on either side of it and so doesn't take up otherwise useful screen real estate

The screen is gorgeous

128GB of storage, 4GB RAM, a snapdragon 835, and a great looking screen

A large, beautiful, responsive screen in the smallest size

The hardware is amazing as said, and it's the perfect size and screen is huge for such a small phone

It has a fantastic screen, makes excellent photos, plays music through the multi purpose jack, has a quick charge battery, huge standard memory, and has long battery life.

The screen is extremely responsive, and feels great

, it'll charge the other phone.-The screen is good, viewing angles are good, and colors are decent, its not AMOLED, but it's not that noticeable-The bezels are slim, not the slimiest, but definitely enough to stand out.-The notch, hate it or love it, but it normally sits in the notification bar, and is only 1 item wide

limitations-- Tinny speaker, like most phones (but plenty loud)-- Screen not as bright as some (some are twice as bright, though this one is pretty bright to me, same as my 2016 MacBook Pro)-- Color photos not as sharp and clean at 100% size as the best phone shots, especially for low light, where noise shows and detail is lost, no image stabilization-- Screen is LCD, so blacks aren't blackest possible-- Heavier: 6.5 ounces (iPhone 8 is 5.2

Can stand real and true to the corner drop test but if dropped just right will shatter the screen

Falling from less than 1.5ft from the ground, my screen cracked in three places.

Screen looks good, the front side camera does not bother me at all, I was worry a little about

The screen on this phone died after 6 months.

Screen is stunning

Screen is beautiful

The screen is very good and the build quality is good enough that I can work through it's short comings

Screen is gorgeous, price is right, and it is pure Android which you can't beat.

My screen was always so dark, I couldn't stand it

Screen freezes and can't do anything if it happens

Good screen for reading books on the go.5

I prefer this much more, especially because the screen and bezel is much nicer.

I do like the screen - plenty bright, great resolution and the notch doesn't bother me at all

The screen is super sharp and unique.

Other things I like about the phone: the phone has a lot of space, it feels solid (not cheap), bluetooth works perfectly, fingerprint sensor is great, it seems pretty quick/snappy, the screen is quick/responsive about 90% of the time, movies I make are very crisp and clear, and wifi is great

But I am loving the almost edgeless screen so much that I don't pay attention to the design anymore

I love the screen but the camera can't competit with s8 or iPhone

The screen is great it reacts quickly to every touch as it should

The screen breaks so easy I'm cnvinced it is not real gorilla glass and my charge port came broke.

I then have to go to Best buy and pay $40 for a type c fast charger like the one that comes with this phone

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

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

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

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

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

No headphone jack (I love USB-C)

I picked up a USB-C fast charger that matched the 27 watt output of the factory charger and the phone will not fast charge when connected to 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