Essential Phone Review: Maximum Hardware, Minimum Software

33 thoughts on “Essential Phone Review: Maximum Hardware, Minimum Software”

1. So beautiful, I bought 3 of them. Gave one to a friend.

2. Business Opportunity in Ruvol

   I have invented a Board Game [still unpublished and not yet out in the market] that I believe is guaranteed to be as challenging and exciting as CHESS. I called it “RUVOL.”

   It is my hope that one day Ruvol may surpass chess as the “Number One Board Game in the World.”

   The weakness of chess is it always starts in fixed positions that the opening moves become “memorizable.” In fact, not a few have so mastered the moves that they can play against their opponents “blindfolded.” It is for this very reason that the great Bobby Fischer introduced his so-called “Fischer Random Chess,” where the starting position of the pieces is “randomized” to make the memorization of openings impracticable. Fortunately, it is also for this reason that I invented Ruvol where “every game” has been calculated to be a challenging one to play.

   HOW IS RUVOL PLAYED and HOW YOU CAN MONETIZE IT?

   I detailed everything in my YouTube video. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcqth0m3-R0

   BIG MONEY POTENTIAL IN RUVOL!

   It is worthwhile to note that the people who play chess will be the same people who will play Ruvol. In my Google search, I learned there are around 800 million chess players in the world. Even just a small percentage of these 800 million is good enough to earn big money from Ruvol either as an ONLINE GAME BUSINESS or as a PHYSICAL PRODUCT DISTRIBUTOR.

   You may contact me at: rodolfovitangcol@gmail.com.

   Thanks and God bless!

   RODOLFO MARTIN VITANGCOL
   
   The Ruvol Inventor

3. umm i'm sure essential has bluetooth, so no need headphone wires, cut the cord. Also, theres a attachment like the 360 camera for headphones.

4. Got it for 350€ brand new 😀

5. Okay, so vanilla is always in the front of my cooler lol

6. So with the recent huge price drop, it's a budget pixel?

7. Great phone for a good price. Please review after the 8.1 update. It's far better than before.

8. 499$

9. I purchased the Essential PH1 Black Moon on December 6th and with all the updates since then I love this beautiful phone. Premium build quality at a low price point and a look that separates it from the rest of the pack. I was at my doctors office today watching 2k movies on my phone and people on both sides of me took notice. They wanted to know what kind of phone this was and I told them but they never heard of it. One guy ask could he hold it so I let him, he was amazed at the build, look and weight of the phone. I told him I only paid $500 for the phone and he thought I payed more. I like the fact that I use a product that no one around me has and at half the price of the flagship phones.

10. Charging time¿¿¿

11. What if u don't care abt the camera??

12. I like how many haters my amazing ceramic steel front facing 4k 128GB onboard having phone has.

13. Compares the essential phone which dropped 200$ to an 1000$ phone, that's a definitely fair review its literally worth half the price of the pixel

14. Is it worth it at $500?

15. From a design perspective, this phone is what I feel this year's Pixels should've been. The Pixel 2 and XL are just so bland in terms of hardware design. While I'm optimistic and excited what next year's Essential device will be, it takes years and/or multiple iterations of a device before the camera reaches 'awesome' status. (How many years did it take the Nexus to get a great camera?) Gorgeous device but such a letdown in arguably a smartphone's most important feature: the camera.

16. Nice review, great word play. 😉

17. Price drop to 500$ I'm coming from iphone and iphone is just too expensive for me to keep up. So for 500$ is it worth it?

18. What game was he playing?

19. My LG G6 last me 6-7 hours with about 4h of video playback on youtube and some medium – heavy gaming

20. Re: CAMERA!!! Guys (and girls) make sure you do COMPLETE homework before making a decision. Everyone has an opinion. Mine? i'm currently running ZSL app on my nexus 6p, considering this phone. Let me tell you, my camera went from so, so to AMAZING with a system modification on my rooted phone. So, i'm not so sure of the whole "software doesn't really make much difference," when it comes to the camera. Just sharing for information's sake. Not trying to be critical. i appreciate the time taken to give a review.

21. Sprint has the phone for 200 bucks this week. I might take the plunge. The photos and video look fine to me I don't see what the fuss is all about

22. Joshua has a great narrating voice! Awesome review!!

23. I think this phone was ment for people who want a bare minimum of apps on there phone not bunches of useless apps you never use and those that aint social media hounds snapping pics all over or making videos. I really like this phone I will buy one when the price drops some. This feels like a perfect fit for me. Love what I see from this phone so far. I would like them to add the side app effects of the meizo 7 plus phone and maybe slightly taller in future makes but other than that I can still roll with this phone as is. The camera isnt important to me. If I wanted to snap pictures I'll buy a regular camera. No social media hound phones.

24. You guys REALLY need to keep in mind the target AUDIENCE for this phone. This phone was NOT made to target the average consumer who buys iphone or samsung phones, or looks for as many features as possible but doesn't mind spending a bit more money. This phone was aimed at cost conscious android enthusiasts. This phone really wouldn't have made as much of a splash 2 or 3 years ago when nexus' were pretty solidly built and quite cheap. Nowadays, pretty much the ONLY android phone that gets fast updates is pixel, and now essential. This has 128GB storage for under $800, that's INSANE. Forget EVERYTHING ELSE, that by ITSELF is a MASSIVE pro for this phone. I don't know many other phones that have 128GB of storage for that low a price.

    "software updates don't matter" you say? Well, tell me that the next ttime you hear about a samsung or LG phone being hacked due to a month old HEAVILY publicized and upstream fixed attack vector/hack (c.f. 'blueborne'). For the last 3 -4 years EVERY year i hear about one of these "new hacks", this year it's blueborne, a few years ago it was some heartbleed and so on. Currently the only phones that are immunne to blueborne are iPhone, Pixel/Nexus (with latest update) and the Essential Phone. They HAD to keep the features art a minimum, do you know WHY samsung takes SO LONG to update their phones even though htey likely get their hands on upstream code before anyone else? because they have to update all THEIR "baked in goodies" to fit into the new version of the software, that takes IMMENSE time and effort, the bigger the update the more the time this takes.

    This phone is for someone who wants a simple phone with quick updates and doesn't care about too much else. If you are NOT one of these people DON'T complain about this phone, that's like complaining that the tesla car is too expensive and fancy…OF COURSE it is, that's the POINT of the tesla car.

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26. Rich Chigga!

27. Transformation confuse separate away shelter place standard.

28. One of my favorite YT reviewers.

29. No headphone jack? Please mention that at the start so i can immediately stop watching. It makes the phone uninteresting.

30. I'm 15, and have an iPhone 6, I originally had a moto x force, but it unexpectedly stopped working a year after I got it. I really want an android phone again and prefer stock android to iOS, and I am familiar with stock too because it's the only android I've ever used. Camera quality isn't a major importance to me, as long as it's better then the iPhone 6+. And is decent. Is the essential phone a good option because that screen is sick.

31. talk notice educational uxaqees terrible pocket consumer bright help tiny.

32. People pls help me!!!!
    LG V30 or ESSENTIAL PHONE or GOOGLE PIXEL 2
    Idk what to buy

33. Rich Chigga is definitely essential.

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