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I have used the Essential Phone for a few years now. The experience has been great in every dimension except for the one thing many people care the most about:
by gregwebs 7y ago
I have used the Essential Phone for a few years now. The experience has been great in every dimension except for the one thing many people care the most about: the camera. The camera app the phone is shipped with is horrible. I really don't know how they expected to sell it as a high-end phone. The crazy thing is that there are some builds of the Google Camera app that you can find which make the pictures really good (it is definitely still really bad in low light conditions though).
- Uhhrrr 7y agoMaybe second most after the phone part? Although for me specifically, the order would be text, phone, email, camera.
- 0xffff2 7y agoDoes anyone really care about the phone part of "phones" anymore? Even my parents text me far more often than they call these days. I'm sure I'm an outlier, but I would say browsing, email, text, nav, camera, ..., phone. Honestly with the ratio of spam phone calls I receive, I might prefer a smart "phone" that didn't even accept incoming calls.
- filoleg 7y agoAgreed, but I have some more reasons for why the "phone" part of the phone isn't really much of a factor when it comes to buying a phone these days. At this point in time, texting+phone parts of the phone are pretty good and uniform across all devices, so it isn't a differentiating factor that people care about anymore imo. The only "texting" part of the modern phones that is still somewhat of a differentiator is iMessages, but that's about it.