> Essential Phone will get guaranteed Android OS updates for 2 years and will get monthly security updates for 3 years.
That's honestly not much of an improvement, and I'm not aware of any current phones that are outdated after a year (unless you're one of those gadget fanatics who has to have the most cutting edge phone).
> we've tried to make our phone as affordable as possible.
$700 is affordable now? What world are we living in!? Silicon Valley, I guess?
> Simple is always better.
> we put nearly a year’s worth of development into making a camera that integrates into the body of the phone (without the tell tale camera hump)
Really starting to question their priorities at this point...
Maybe "essential" is the wrong word for what they're doing, because it seems like they spend a lot of time on things that aren't essential at all. Who needs a 360 camera? And who cares about a 1mm camera protrusion? And since when do we all agree that a 3.5mm headphone jack isn't "essential"?