At this point, the only thing I care about is whether or not they plan on releasing quality software updates in a timely manner for a reasonable amount of time...
Essential Phone, available now
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#12If 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.
Eh, who has a phone longer than 2 years now?
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#13Are there any reviews out? From what I can tell reviews are either embargoed or review phones haven't been sent out.
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#14The comment about FaceTime made no sense. On iPhone you can use all the apps he mentioned. In terms of security, I trust FaceTime far more than I trust What’s App who, in their policies, make it clear some data is shared with Facebook. Using What’s App as a counterargument to FaceTime is rather strange to me. Signal maybe, but you can run that on iPhone just fine as well.
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#15Earlier 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?
Oh, I thought they had Ambient on their phones too. My mistake. Makes a lot more sense to use Android.
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#16Maybe 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?
"Isn't the OS just vanilla Android?"
Have they discussed whether the phone is designed to be rooted easily ? Like a nexus device, for instance ?
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#17If 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.
Eh, who has a phone longer than 2 years now?
I do... and i know a lot of others in tech that aren't as hyper to line up for a new phone. Also, so far, in my opinion- after the iphone 6- there hasn't been any major differences.
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#18At this point, the only thing I care about is whether or not they plan on releasing quality software updates in a timely manner for a reasonable amount of time...
They stated 2 years OS updates, 3 years monthly security updates in the blog post.
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#19Really dont want to make a joke here but your user name doesn't go well with the title.
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#20At this point, the only thing I care about is whether or not they plan on releasing quality software updates in a timely manner for a reasonable amount of time...
It is still end of life after 3 years.