After the past week of deals, we’re finishing it all off with a fresh Cyber Monday 2017. We’re hardly awake out here on the west coast, but one deal has already caught our eye – Essential Phone with a 360 camera accessory for just $399.
As you all know, the Essential Phone’s price drop to $499 a few weeks back, followed by another drop to $449 within the past week, has made this a hard phone to pass on. The hardware is about as good as it gets, the design is unique, it’s getting tons of software updates, and it runs about the cleanest version of Android you’ll find. Of course, it’s still not the best performing phone nor is the camera going to win you any photography awards, but at $399 with a camera mod thrown in? I’m not sure how you can pass on this.
The deal appears to be good all day long or until Amazon runs out of stock. Hurry.
Amazon Deal Link
Cheers Michael!
At 5 pm EST, deal is gone already.$599!
Ok after harassing you guys that we need to move on with this phone, at this price it’s now a steal! ???? Can’t beat this and now is worth considering as a backup or even a primary phone. Mine arrives tomorrow from Amazon. But it still has TMO connectivity issues: very slow speeds.
Saw this phone in the store.. it was nice… 2 questions… is it better then my s7 edge and is is better then the v30 which I am still patiently waiting for a good deal on??
No, to be quite honest but at this price if you can live without some bells and whistles and live with a smaller LCD screen and an inferior camera and some connectivity issues, then yes.
I bought this a couple of weeks ago. The cell radios don’t seem that great compared to my G6. Maybe more updates will fix this.
Totally agree: I get nowhere the speeds of TMO like I do on Pixel 2XL.
still has issues even with so many updates. hopefully the second one is much better in every way
FYI this deal is still good: https://sprint.com/1yearfree It never expired during the summer like they originally announced. I just got my unlocked Essential Phone connected to the Sprint network and the bandwidth speeds officially SUCK in this area. I’ll keep the plan though since we might be moving in a few months and it’s only like 5 bucks a month (for taxes and fees). Luckily Cricket has great service in this area and the Essential phone’s mobile hotspot seems to work fine on Cricket even though it’s not on Cricket’s list of officially supported devices.
Oh my heck and I just barely got it on Amazon last week at the $449 price with no 360-degree camera.
Return that and reorder! Amazon is great with that.
How much of an upgrade is this from the Nexus 6P? I LOVE the camera on the 6P.
The camera is probably still worse, but the speed and battery life will be much better.
I’m assuming you’ve owned this?
I hope these guys continue to make phones. For a first effort this doesn’t seem too bad.
I bet they would have captured more sales if they had a crazy price like this from the beginning.
I’d also like to see a deal with all the carriers. Google isn’t interested in selling their phones, maybe these guys could.
Somebody needs to have a solid phone option on all the carriers to try and slow the ever climbing prices.
“Google isn’t interested in selling their phones, maybe these guys could.”
Google has advertised the Pixel 2 phones on TV. Has Essential?
Seriously if you don’t have a Pixel 2 already i would pick this up. at this price it’s almost fire sale pricing!
Definitely a good deal. If I wouldn’t have snatched up a pxl2 this weekend I prolly would be all over this.
Picked up an OG Pixel two weeks back for $250. Glad that deal came along or I would be all over this. Cheers to those that get it!
Yeah… Pulling the trigger on this one…
Done…
Ugh…gave up and went for a Moto Z2 Play on Friday. I regret everything.
Then again, I probably wouldn’t have done it until Essential released the “Oceans Depth” color version.
return policy bro dude man bro dude
I picked up a white one this morning!