It has been great.
I am in a right old predicament now - which to keep?!
It's the form factor that I'm liking the most. Someone at work thought I had an iPhone X earlier.
It really is a very well designed phone.
I tell you what I don't really like though, and I have said this before about the Pixel I had last year.
I don't think I like stock Android too much. Bare bones is not good for me.
The biggest thing is the lack of a notification in the corner of an app which tells me I have a notification... I know that sounds ridiculous with Android as they're all in the notification bar at the top, but it isn't quite the same.
And I know I can add a luancher to do that but I have never got along with other launchers, I always use the stock ones that come with phones as I've never had issues with any I've used so far.
Oreo will hopefully address that somewhat.
Battery has not been good for me but I have been messing with it ALL day. Wallpapers apps, messing with wallpapers, using it as a normal phone, so social media, texting etc. I've also had the screen on for over an hour straight when following tennis scores live. So it has been an exception. But it will need charging as soon as I get in.
Someone in my phonebook called me earlier and I have pictures for all my contacts. The Essential call screen is nice, but the contact pictures are not. They're very small, but the pitures look garbage, really pixellated as if they've been blown up too much - which is funny seeing as they're acually tiny compared to the picture uploaded to the contact!
Not sure what's going on there.
I don't like the vibrate on the phone. It is audible. Sounds odd, but it's a vibrate you can hear. My XZp had a great vibrate, this is tinny. It feels extremely cheap which undermines the whole design give how premium it is.
Wouldn't be a problem if I didn't have to feel it (and hear it!) every time I pressed the command buttons at the bottom. I know I can turn vibrate off, but I like the feedback from the buttons.
Other annoyances.
The 'clear all' button when you press square. Why do I have to scroll all the way through my open applications right to the top to be able to clear? No sense!
The clear all on my XZp is visible as soon as you hit square, this is time consuming and backwards. Very frustrating.
Some apps look terrible and don't seem to be optimised for the screen - like BlueMail which I use. The whole top nav bar is cut off! Don't know what to do about that but I don't really want to use anything else. Will investigate this further later on.
LED not working.
Lol as if. As I typed that I got a Facebook notification and the light is blinking blue now.
Ok, I'll change that. LED INTERMITTENTLY not working.
Will have to investigate this too.
Wi-fi drops.
We have work wi-fi which is very strong. I moved from my desk to the canteen (Caffiteria? for you American's
) and it completely dropped out. No other phone I've had has done that. It re-connected on my way back up. Seems there's problems here still.
That's about it for my thoughts 24 hours in.
A few niggles here and there. If these can be ironed out, it's a winner. Be nice to have Oreo hit soon so I can experience that on there.
I'll post again tomorrow after a full 48 hours.
