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Re:Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 3... by winningcontinue on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:11PM (#18244622)
Bought the phone and sold it at a loss more than a few months later for less than half. Camera is terrible and it did not at all improve with time. Screen to phone ratio was amazing but another drawback nobody mentions was the weight. for a 5 inch phone it weighed more than my previous Nexus 6p. Carrying it in my pocket made it heavy.
Re:Android Creator’s Startup Essential Products Cuts About 3... by watersb on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:21PM (#18245208)
FWIW, yes.

The camera is awful, and it is a dense brick to carry around.

I am using a PH-1 as my phone, a clearance sale item promoted by Amazon this past summer. I believe Amazon is a major investor in Essential. Looks like another fail for them, in terms of Amazon becoming a smartphone creator with a viable mass-market product.