[Essential Phone Guides, News, & Discussion] Essentially essential:
Oreo

So has anyone heard yet when the oreo update will be released? I had a Sony Xperia XZ premium with Android N and went to Oreo and there were very big differences, somehow the camera got even better than it already was, and everything seemed to run much better, however I had already started a return on the Xperia because there were things I didn't like about it, the biggest of which not having a activated fingerprint sensor because no Sony phone shipped to and sold in the US is allowed to have the fingerprint sensor working, they all have to be deactivated and nobody seems to know exactly what the reason for this is. But I was able after the update to oreo shoot a picture in a almost pitch black room with no flash and it amazingly got a clear photo of everything in the room. I was literally amazed as I had never seen a camera on a phone or any other camera for that matter do what it was able to do. But I ordered my essential phone and didn't after I ordered it the Xperia got oreo and I couldn't keep it because there's no return on the essential phone because I got it on ebay, which I got the Xperia on ebay too, but it had a 30 days return policy. But also the Xperia has the glass front and back and as much as I drop my phone that's just asking for a broken shattered phone within a month for a 850.00 phone so I got the essential phone and at first was very disappointed with its camera, then I got the camera update and it was much better but still bad compared to the Xperia and my moto z Force Droid 1st generation camera. I installed the Google pixel camera software and the essential is very very good now but still low light could be better. It's a beautiful phone in every other aspect. I fell in love with it the second I picked it up and it is so dense and don't bend or anything with its titanium frame and ceramic back. The ceramic don't scratch even with a razor blade it didn't leavs a mark, but ceramic can certainly shatter its no different them ceramic tile in your bathroom or kitchen granted the smaller ceramic is the harder it is to break but it can happen. There's really no cases for the essential phone yet except for 2, and I got a tudia case and was pleasantly surprised it is as nice as it is, fits beautifully yet virtually adds no weight to the phone and no bulk. It's still smaller then my z force with no case on the z Force and holding the Xperia after this felt like I was holding a humongous ancient phone because it is huge bigger than the z Force even. But anyway I didn't mean to ramble on like this, I'm brand new to this site but I just wanted to give my honest opinion / review on the essential phone ph-1 in hopes more people jump off the iPhone wagon and buy essential phones, because this phone is half the cost of iPhone x it was just reduced to $499.99 from $699.99 and I love that it will get 2 major android upgrades and security upgrades for 3 years. It has the snapdragon 835, 4gb ram, 128gb internal storage but no SD card slot which with 128gb storage that should be plenty for most people if they keep this phone for even 3 years. I am quite certain that the snapdragon 835 will be a very fast soc for at least 3-5 years. They are getting to a point in smartphones that people are not upgrading as much because these phones are so good now that they do almost anything you need them to do. I literally used to hate smartphones and always used my laptop with pclinuxos se (security edition) kde3. And I started using smartphones in 2014 a little over 3 years ago. Since then I've literally only been on any of my computers maybe 10 to 20 times because I can do almost every single thing on my phone now. But props to Andy Ruben for making this phone top of the line flagship build and performance for a mid grade phone price. Oh and the notch.. I don't even notice it 99% of the time and is smaller than the huge iPhone x notch. So people, if you want a great phone, look no farther than this phone. You won't be disappointed as long as you install the Google camera software. But if anyone knows when or where to get android O for the essential phone please let me know. Thanks.