Essential Phone Review

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The stated goal of Essential Products is to make technology easier and more accessible, and it’s got an ambitious roadmap of devices planned to help it achieve that end. But its first product, the Essential Phone PH-1, fits better into the extended definition of the word: this is a phone that tries to get down to the brass tacks, the bare fundamentals of what a smartphone should be. The result is a beautiful ceramic-and-titanium slab unlike any Android phone produced to date – but its undercooked camera features enough flaws to put the whole package in jeopardy.

Click on through to the Essential Phone Review by MrMobile, and be sure to check out Android Central’s own Essential Phone Review for the deeper dive on this one-of-a-kind device!

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MrMobile's Essential Phone Review was produced following four days with an Essential Phone review device on loan from Essential Products. The Essential Phone was tested on T-Mobile US and received one software update during the review process, to build NMI51C.

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Essential Phone Review [Android Central]:

Essential Phone shows off selective focus, 360 camera [PCMag]:

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[fasn]

Thank you for being honest! Your right, many youtubers skimped on the camera in depth

[BrianCheng]

Best review I've seen on this phone so far, and I watched many.

[thekingofhearts]

The quality of videos from this channel just keeps getting better and better!! The camera angles, editing, the subtle jokes, the entire presentation are just too good!!I don't care if it has less than expected For me this channel is the benchmark for all other tech youtubers!!

[Conceptcreator]

this is why i watch your video's! You give a honest review and say what you think! With next to that freaking awsome shots!

[Exraw]

Removable battery? No.
Water proof? No.
Headphone jack? No.
Buy the phone? Fuck no.

[TechLineHD]

A terrible camera is a deal breaker for a phone this expensive. I expect that the prices of this phone will go down significantly soon.

[RyRyTheBassGuy]

Two years later and it still gets timely updates!

[MrJeep]

I'm loving seeing the evolution of your videos Michael. With each one they continue to get stronger and better in every facet.

[M]

This phone would've been a massive success but no audio jack and no water proof ?!?! how they want to compete against large amount of phones in the market and yeah terrible camera !.

[bederhajali]

Honestly you have a great presentation skills and amazing voice over. I saw your old car videos and they were great. It's wonderful to see how far you've grown. Keep going Micheal

[mattdonlan]

Best review of this phone yet by far. Awesome review!! It does seem like its being released earlier than it should be. When Essential teased the nearly bezel free display in that picture a while ago I think Andy Rubin obviously new this was going to be the year of the bezel free design trend and wanted to get this phone on peoples minds. They should have waited until they could implement an OLED display and should never have shipped with a cam that’s not on par with the Pixel/S8/iPhone. The phones design to me is almost perfect, so simple, great materials, could do without the magnetic mod pins but that’s just personal as I would never by any mods to attach just like Motos phones. I wanted to buy this so bad as my Android phone for the next year but the Camera just ain’t worth it. Waiting on the next Pixel. I think the Pixel dodged a bullet with this phone as I’m sure many Pixel fans were serious about this phone as well, and the Camera is just not there.

[raywill]

You are officially the best YouTube reviewer. Salute my friend. This is how it's done.

[thomaswillis]

Great review! It's a shame I can't say the same for the phone itself :(

[KIMBOTANDOK]

Your honest reviews are so refreshing. You have hard conclusions rather than leaving it open like most other YouTubers do. Continue the hard work and stay mobile, my friend. ☺

[roberttranceedm]

For a while I couldn't watch your vids, and now I realize how much I missed them. Good infos, highly enjoyable, fun to watch the reviews.

[LeBeautiful]

And this was an "Essential" Review!

Fun fact: "The phone is called PH-1, and if you put those together it becomes "PH-ONE". Essential PHONE!

[MoonyD]

Thank you so much for your honesty! So many other reviewers skip over the fact that the camera isn't great, no water proofing and no head phone jack. It's always appreciated to see some honest reviews.

[jonkomatsu]

C'mon! In this day and age, wherein even mid-rangers take really solid photos and video, a poor camera module in such an expensive flagship is inexcusable. Fail.

[VChlorok]

I've seen every single review of the PH-1 and you are the only one who actually answered my question about how good their EIS is. Best reviewer as always. Why on earth everyone else didn't even bother to mention anything about PH1's EIS, taking into account that less than a month ago everyone was complaining about the "terrible lack of EIS in Oneplus5's 4K video mode" (which is fixed now btw via OTA) is still a mystery to me.

[techpassion]

Wakes up early at 6:49am and sees a new Mr Mobile video. Today's gonna be a good day ^^