The Essential PH-1: Finally Reviewed
With the stagnation of the mobile device market in recent years, I was beginning to give up hope that anything could ever replace the venerable Motorola Moto X Pure Edition. Is the Essential PH-1 the answer? Find out in today's video.
Chapters:
1:22 - Overview
1:24 - Background, ergonomics
3:24 - The Screen
4:35 - Sound System
5:11 - Endurance, performance, and power
5:51 - The Camera
10:10 - Software
12:02 - Radio Performance
13:56 - In conclusion
Clarifications and Corrections:
9:42 - I should mention that this phone has two microphones, but there is no way (as far as I have been able to find so far) to record audio or video in stereo.
11:15 - Said "former," meant "latter." I usually try to do a pretty good job of proofreading the scripted videos, but sometimes mistakes like these do slip through.
15:05 - By "crusty sounding," I'm mainly referring to the speaker's clarity at lower volume levels, which reeks of interference (think early-2000s Windows XP computer speaker interference racket). It's hardly noticeable at levels higher than ~40%.
16:26 - Use this command to fix the chin mask glitch:
adb shell settings put secure sysui_rounded_size 1
Links and Resources:
Forum thread on the chin mask issue - https://forum.xda-developers.com/esse...
Procedure for getting TWRP working with the final stock rom release - https://forum.xda-developers.com/esse...
Final Stock Rom release and Root instructions: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AosUM-DWPHS1hByPh...