The Essential Phone is Seriously Underrated #Helpful Post

hey guys doston a few short months ago

one of the most hyped phones and years

was announced the essential phone

promised top-notch build quality a clean

build of Android and some seriously

great cameras however things weren't all

that they were cracked up to be when we

went on sale there were some serious

issues the camera was a borderline

deal-breaker it was lacking both water

resistance as well as a headphone jack

and with a 700 our price tag the foam

really just didn't get off the ground

nothing shows this off better than these

sales figures which were reportedly less

than ninety thousand over the first year

of the essential phone's life that my

friends that's not good however it's

2018 and the essential phone has

actually gotten a lot better the first

and biggest change is the price you can

pick up the essential phone on Amazon

right now all for only $450 and then

include some other colors that weren't

available at launch including this pure

white no sure when you look at this as a

$700 phone there are some issues but at

less than $500 and I think even comes

close to touching the build quality here

I'll even go farther than that this is

one of the nicest builds on any phone

period so with that ceramic back

especially when you put it side-by-side

with a glass back to phone like the

iPhone 10 it really makes it look dull

in comparison you do wireless charging

but in return you're getting not only

that look and feel but you're also going

to be getting the extra durability of

having that ceramic it's not going to be

for everyone but personally I absolutely

love the way this looks and feels come

around to the side of the phone and

you'll see that it is made out of

titanium now that's also something you

don't really exactly see on phones these

days and it gives it a nice feel in the

hand now what's interesting is is that

while a lot of flagships these days are

going for a very rounded sort of curved

design this is much more chunky which I

kind of like you're making the best use

of space inside the phone that same

solid feel comes around to the buttons

which have a nice tactile click as well

as the machining on things like the USB

C port as well as the speaker grille no

it does not have stereo speakers and no

it doesn't have the headphone jack but

there's a lot to really like about the

hardware of this phone that's not even

getting into the screen come around

front and you'll find that 5.7 inch

display with some of the thinnest bezels

that we've seen yet now keep in mind if

this phone has been out for a while even

phones like the iPhone 10 as well as the

Galaxy S 9 can't quite match that super

thin bezel but they also can't match the

naj yes my friends the essential phone

was actually first when it comes to the

knotch and personally I actually like

the way they do it here better than on

the iPhone 10 it's just barely big

enough to fit that front-facing camera

and everything else has been cramped

into the tiny little bar above it

including the status LED as well as your

earpiece to be fair the IPS panel on the

essential phone can't quite match up to

the awesome AMOLED displays on both the

galaxy s 9 as well as the s 8 and the

iPhone 10 however I'm really nitpicking

at this point this is a very very good

display especially when you consider the

price sure there are some minor things I

can nitpick so the plastic that

surrounds the front glass on my unit is

slightly imperfect there are a couple

places where it's not totally smooth and

on the actual pixels themselves that

come around not only the knotch but as

well as the rounded edges on the top of

the display you can actually see that

there are individual pixels that you can

barely make out this is really

nitpicking when you consider that this

is a 4 in 50 dollar phone there's

nothing to complain about

unless of course you want a headphone

jack in which case sorry inside you're

getting pretty standard flagship specs a

snapdragon 835 processor 4 gigabytes of

RAM as well as 128 gigs of storage which

is definitely helpful considering that

there's no micro SD card slot as you'd

expect everything is super snappy now a

lot of this is thanks to essential

constantly updating the phone so I was

pretty good when it first came out

they've consistently added updates to be

able to smooth out things like the touch

responsiveness as well as the scrolling

speed but as you would expect it's just

as fast as pretty much any other Android

flagship at this point now as far as the

software side of things go it's good but

not perfect the biggest issue is that it

is still running Android 7.1 newgate now

yes essential has said they're working

on an Oreo update and hopefully that

comes out soon as of right now is a very

clean build of a slightly older version

of Android the good thing though is that

when I say a clean build of Android I

mean it there is exactly zero bloatware

of any kind now there are some minor

tweaks the essential is done mostly to

actually support the knotch

which is actually one of the more

impressive parts it actually kind of

works pretty well here supported apps

like Google Maps will flow around the

front-facing camera essentially giving

you that full screen experience and even

other apps that aren't fully supported

by the knotch are still going to give

you access to your notifications as well

as the system info without really

getting in the way kind of like using a

normal phone like that it's not an oled

display so while the blacks are good it

isn't quite

blendin over there she does a pretty

good job and it's not that far off from

something like the iPhone 10 as far as

using an app that is not supported now

one thing that's actually been very

impressive the essential is done is

update the camera this thing is so much

better than it used to be with a pair of

12 megapixel cameras around back the

hardware seems to be there but it

launched the essential camera with

straight garbage towel now don't get me

wrong it's not exactly going to rival

the pixel but it has gotten so much

better than before now pretty much all

that is thanks to essential constantly

releasing updates to improve the camera

in fact literally the day we're shooting

this it got another update which not

only improved a little bit of the

performance but also added some

additional options in the camera app

provided that you have some decent light

the photos really aren't too bad

now the autofocus is still a little bit

on the slow side and one of the things I

did notice is that while the image might

not look that great on the preview once

you actually take a shot in its process

it typically does look a lot better

which is nice except that will be better

to know exactly what your shots going to

look like before you hit the shutter

button the portrait mode is also pretty

decent now I will say that the blur can

be a little bit strong sometimes and

like all these systems it's not going to

be perfectly cutting you out from the

background but it's not that far behind

something like the galaxy s 9 or the

iPhone 10 and again it is going to be

much much less expensive and that's

really where I come down on the

essential phone when it first launched

its $700 there are some legitimately

really big problems the lack of

waterproofing the battery life which is

only okay in the camera or big problems

but now that a lot of these things have

been addressed and it's got a huge price

cut I think a lot of people would be

really happy with the essential phone so

if you want to join 90,000 other people

who have a phone that no one else has

ever heard of the essential phone really

is worth a look some curious what do you

guys think about the phone especially in

2018 he's gotten a lot better but let me

know what you think in the comments

below and I will catch you on the next

one