Essential Phone, available now

#1

Post by Garbage » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 4:01 PM UTC

Essential Phone, available now
essential.com

Re: Essential Phone, available now

#2

Post by free_everybody » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 4:14 PM UTC

Maybe I'm just buying into the marketing hype, but this actually seems pretty cool and I'm curious what the OS feels like.

Re: Essential Phone, available now

#3

Post by andrenotgiant » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 4:19 PM UTC

free_everybody wrote: post #2

Maybe I'm just buying into the marketing hype, but this actually seems pretty cool and I'm curious what the OS feels like.

Isn't the OS just vanilla Android?

Re: Essential Phone, available now

#4

Post by ghostly_s » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 4:22 PM UTC

andrenotgiant wrote: post #3

free_everybody wrote: post #2

Maybe I'm just buying into the marketing hype, but this actually seems pretty cool and I'm curious what the OS feels like.

Isn't the OS just vanilla Android?

Apparently so, according to the specs page. I thought the whole thing with this company was that they're developing a competing OS not based on Android?

Re: Essential Phone, available now

#5

Post by scblock » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 4:23 PM UTC

Selling but not shipping. No word on actual ship dates on any of the three linked sites (direct, Best Buy, or Sprint) unless I'm looking in the wrong place.

Edit: Sprint is currently estimating August 28 on their shipping page.

Re: Essential Phone, available now

#6

Post by distances » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 4:24 PM UTC

ghostly_s wrote: post #4

andrenotgiant wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't the OS just vanilla Android?

Apparently so, according to the specs page. I thought the whole thing with this company was that they're developing a competing OS not based on Android?

No, that wasn't their goal, it was stated to be Android from the beginning.

Re: Essential Phone, available now

#7

Post by tahw » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 4:25 PM UTC

Does anyone know if these phones will work with Project Fi?

Re: Essential Phone, available now

#8

Post by dsr_ » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 4:25 PM UTC

If they really made it well, it would come with a declared lifetime.

What it has is a 2 year $99 extra warranty, on top of a $699 price.

Re: Essential Phone, available now

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Post by reitanqild » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 4:28 PM UTC

ghostly_s wrote: post #4

andrenotgiant wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't the OS just vanilla Android?

Apparently so, according to the specs page. I thought the whole thing with this company was that they're developing a competing OS not based on Android?

Seems they have their own OS for home devices, ambient OS.

Re: Essential Phone, available now

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Post by eggpy » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 4:29 PM UTC

tahw wrote: post #7

Does anyone know if these phones will work with Project Fi?

From the Project Fi FAQs:

>Project Fi is available on the Pixel, Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, and Nexus 6. Currently these are the only smartphones to support our network of networks. You must have the North American model of the above devices in order to use it on the Project Fi network.