I got the same email just now......so now we are down to "a few weeks" before it ships....
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Any Interest In Rubin's Essential Phone?
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Thinking about it, I sorta kinda remember when they announced the Sprint partnership, either someone at Sprint or someone at Essential made a comment along the lines that the phone would be out "late summer" or "later this summer". I can't find it now but obviously that's the timeframe.
P.S. They *still* aren't doing a single thing to explain what it is about the phone that makes is preferable to someone else's Android phone.
I won't pre-order it now. I will wait until people have this phone in their hands and can provide actual user feedback. They have mishandled the delays. So now my trust level is very low right now.
I'm still interested but if this thing ships end of August/early September it's probably DOA for me. It's on a crash course with the Note 8 and Pixel 2, and the latter of those two makes it tough to go with Essential. Especially if the Pixel comes packing with features the Essential doesn't have, like water resistance and/or wireless charging, etc.
He said you will have your hands on it "in a few weeks" which to me is 3.5 weeks because any more would be a month. My guess is they ship around mid August.
You can try to thread that needle till you're blue in the face but "a few weeks" can mean anything they want it to. If they ship early September, that could easily fit the definition of "a few weeks".
Hey, back to my drumbeat on selling the phone to us:
On the site they mention a wireless dock to charge the phone. Umm..hi? Can I have MORE info on that, please?
Good lord I am glad I have no interest in this phone or I would be going crazy.
Don't these people understand that us techies are the most impatient people on the planet and tend to buy on impulse?! (Or is it just me, lol?!)
The longer it goes on the more I'd be moving on to something else.
Thankfully I hated the design with that awful front camera dipping into the screen, so I was out day one!
Don't these people understand that us techies are the most impatient people on the planet and tend to buy on impulse?! (Or is it just me, lol?!)
The longer it goes on the more I'd be moving on to something else.
Thankfully I hated the design with that awful front camera dipping into the screen, so I was out day one!
It's the design that keeps me on the hook. I think it's one of the sharpest looking phones in a long time. I'm withholding judgement on the FFC placement for now. I could see where that might potentially drive me crazy.
MRU isn't buying it, oh wait he is, no no he refuses to buy yet another phone, wait he found a good deal and bought it....doggy/beach pics@@!!
Haha, I knew this thing was never going to ship within 30days of announcent! Andy was a little too ambitious with that number when the FCC had not even touched it yet. The announcement of this phone was more of a public pitch to investors, to pump money in so they can start building the phones.
It's a real pity this phone has no major USP, it doesn't even have Splash resistance let alone full IP68 protection, no MicroSD, no OLED Display, no 3.5mm jack, no new hardware in its Camera, and no wireless charging.
To add insult to injury, it has a 5.7inch Display coupled with a puny 3040mAh battery (even LG's G6 has at least a 3300mAh juicer) and a very odd display resolution at 1312x2560, what on earth were they thinking here? This will present compatibility issues with apps like Snapchat and so on.
Biggest concern for me here is that this phone is going to be expensive yet difficult to get, and on top of that the Battery Life for those who get it will be pure crap, how do you put such a small battery, and couple it with a IPS Display!?
Yes I know the regular Galaxy S8 has a 5.8inch Display with 3000mAh battery, that is the very reason I would pick a S8+ over it or a LG G6. The regular S8 itself has average battery life at best and has a AMOLED display plus all kinds of Power Saving trickery Samsung had to implement to keep it up for a full day.
I hope they fix all this IF they make an Essential PH-2.
Pretty much!
It's a real pity this phone has no major USP, it doesn't even have Splash resistance let alone full IP68 protection, no MicroSD, no OLED Display, no 3.5mm jack, no new hardware in its Camera, and no wireless charging.
To add insult to injury, it has a 5.7inch Display coupled with a puny 3040mAh battery (even LG's G6 has at least a 3300mAh juicer) and a very odd display resolution at 1312x2560, what on earth were they thinking here? This will present compatibility issues with apps like Snapchat and so on.
Biggest concern for me here is that this phone is going to be expensive yet difficult to get, and on top of that the Battery Life for those who get it will be pure crap, how do you put such a small battery, and couple it with a IPS Display!?
Yes I know the regular Galaxy S8 has a 5.8inch Display with 3000mAh battery, that is the very reason I would pick a S8+ over it or a LG G6. The regular S8 itself has average battery life at best and has a AMOLED display plus all kinds of Power Saving trickery Samsung had to implement to keep it up for a full day.
I hope they fix all this IF they make an Essential PH-2.
LOL!
Pretty much!
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Looks like my Essential money is going to go to the unlocked HTC U11 6gb/128gb.
Damn you, Andy.
Damn you, Andy.
do it! I've had my U11 since Thursday and love it. I haven't even powered on my S8 since then. It's a little more hefty than I'd like (weight and size) but the performance and camera have been great!
I was interested in it before, but 6gb of RAM sold me (yes, I know the device can't really use that much RAM. Buuuut...can't hurt!). It strikes me as a *reliable* version of the OP 5. And I've always liked HTC.
Agreed. I had the OP 5 and now this. I much prefer the U11 although I did like the size of the OP5 and some of the software customization. But the screen and camera are much better on U11 than the OP5.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/27/...le-webos-essential-hire-ux-interaction-design
Yup. Consider me now part of the camp that believes this thing is DOA.
Yup. Consider me now part of the camp that believes this thing is DOA.
Tomorrow's headline: Andy Rubin leaves Essential to head up new team at Apple.
I think you could be right....lots of bad press for Andy's company right now.
I'm sure id they released it tomorrow and it was a great phone and got lots of good press, they might recover. But everyday just adds another nail in this phones coffin.....
Too many folks are jumping ship before they've built the ship. The company has a lot of cash, and it's still Rubin so there's a shot.
Although as I've said before they need to come up with a unique value proposition on the phone. If it's just a really good looking device that runs Android...okay? And?
Hey at least consider yourselves lucky. They could have released the phone, then lost key people and abandoned it Microsoft style.
https://9to5google.com/2017/08/04/essential-phone-listed-at-best-buy/
I guess they're going to start asking the reservation list for money any day now. And...I still might do it.
I guess they're going to start asking the reservation list for money any day now. And...I still might do it.
I was just ready to post that!
Essential Phone coming soon to Best Buy
$699 for the unlocked model
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/essenti...e-unlocked-pure-white/5973001.p?skuId=5973001
I am a glutton for punishment so i will have to get the white one....