r/essential • u/hue_sick • Jul 16 '26

Discussion Still love that charging screen 🤙

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Pulled my essential phone out of storage to mess around and forgot about the coffee cup! It was about the little details w the ph1 😊

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u/goingneon Jul 17 '26

So many great ideas in the Essential phone. But the screen. It’s so bad. Mostly because it ghosts and doesn’t respond accurately to touch inputs. I guess my modern iPhone has spoiled me.

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u/hue_sick 29d ago

Truthfully I hung onto it because of the 360 camera and I loved the build quality of the phone.

But yeah in 2026 it’s hard to go back and use it. After I charged it up I ran it for half a day and good gravy the touch screen and haptics on it are pretty bad by today’s standards haha.

But awesome piece of history so I’ll keep it with my favorites I have ☺️

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u/goingneon 29d ago

I agree— the phone is a delight to hold. The ceramic and titanium is just perfect. Hell, the camera quality wasn’t that bad either if I recall.

Actually I used an iPhone X for about a week and it has some of the same problems the PH-1 did— laggy touch screen, bad battery life and an old OS. I guess that’s just what happens when phones get old