I’d also point out that on the white Essential Phone I have here, I thought the fingerprint reader died on it after having been out of the box for all of 10 hours. I say that because the fingerprint reader just stopped working and all software related to it disappeared from the phone, almost as if it no longer registered the component. After talking with support, they told me that this was a known bug from the latest software build and that they are working on a fix. While that’s great that Essential is already working on a fix, we’re talking about the fingerprint reader completely dying after a software update and a fix potentially weeks away. That’s kind of bad.

LOL

@Cole they fixed it today, no joke

oh

well at least the fixing is fast

but at this point I don't see the essential company lasting too long

they'll end up like Nextbit

except nextbit was at least successful at the start

the battleborn of phones

if they end up like nextbut it's good for consumers like us

cause we get cheap high-power devices

and fuck me it looks nice

sure

I just hope there's a dev community

it'll make all the iphone fags at my school ask 'what device is that' like back when I had the OnePlus One

they're releasing factory images soon

so dev community coming soon™

you need some sauce

raw sauce

not just factory images

and kernel sources

forgot to mention that aswell

tbh I'm waiting on Nokia to release the 7 in Europe

that's one good specced phone for normal people

yurop

I've got the Redmi Note 4X, it was $108USD so it's very very nice for the specs

and the battery is long as hell

just the camera sucks

https://i.imgur.com/yUao8qH.jpg

nokia 7 specs

Nokia6 is 3x the price here in Australia

I'd hate to see the N7 pricetag here

$407 usd for the 6GB model in china right now

not bad for those specs

and you get stock android with fast updates, oreo promise, all that

I'd rather see a 660 or 636 for that money personally but hey that's me

and it's a fucking nokia

there's one thing

well even the 630 should be one of those "good performance with great battery life" SoCs

bugging me greatly about the recent bezelless meme

I fucking despise on-screen buttons

Same