So I purchased the two year warranty from Essential, if I sell the phone doesn't transfer with the sale? I am on the fence and have the phone and the 360 camera and am starting to really look at the Pixel 2.
Wondered why you've been so quiet in here. Wasn't expecting you to sell so soon. Just keep in mind that you'll have to go back to your old phone again and the Pixel 2 might be backordered for a while.
My rule of thumb is to return to the manufacturer if I am uneasy or hesitant about my purchase.
You can always re-purchase the item if it looks like things get better. However, you will be out of a considerable sum of money if you have to resell the device.
Especially if it is a difficult sell like an Essential Phone, which outside of these forums and fan sites is not really a name like "iPhone", "Galaxy", or maybe even "Pixel".
Check your top speaker grille mesh. I just read about it this morning. Turns out mine is one of the defective units. I'm returning mine for credit back on my CC, then will re-order a new one after the money is back in my account. I didn't want to risk them sending me a used/returned unit from Asurion, especially at $700.
There's a discussion about it over on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/essential/comments/70vuof/speaker_grill_and_warranty/
Look for the hole in the mesh in this photo: https://imgur.com/a/AwhRV
If yours is defective then scratch what I said above and go for a return or replacement. Trying to sell a defective unit later will certainly be a problem.
And here I thought I had escaped all of the issues with this phone. LOL
lol... yeah, that's what I speculated yesterday afternoon: https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=834027&p=5983181&viewfull=1#post5983181This might be the exact reason why essential had the sprint stores pull the displays and push back the release to the 14th. A store manager I talked to said he had to take down the displays twice and that came from essential. The one I got from sprint has no hole in the grill.
lol... yeah, that's what I speculated yesterday afternoon: https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=834027&p=5983181&viewfull=1#post5983181
Glad to know the Sprint units are assembled correctly. That's reassuring.
After seeing Pixel 2 XL pricing for the 128GB model, I'm comfortable sticking with Essential. Looks like $699 just became the new mid-range price. There's nothing in a Google phone that I personally need, especially for $300 more after tax. Once my return is processed I'll be buying another. Mainly I want to guarantee I get a new phone and not someone's return.
For $300 less we get rain resistance instead. I'm good with that.Exactly if you want all those things your are lead to believe you need. You have to shell out almost a grand. To get water resistance, is that worth a grand. Is a head phone jack worth a grand.
Agreed. That appears to be the case with our headphone adapters. About a week ago mine received a service update after plugging it in, telling me it has some sort of active chipset inside. I also tried one from Motorola and it didn't work. There's more to our adapters than a simple conversion.swagglepuff said:Speaking of head phone jack. My head phones sound better through the usb-c dongle than they ever did through a head phone jack. Mainly due in part to they fact that they can be tweaked with a software update. I think most dongles comes with a built in dac, at least the u11 dongle did.
no one wants this phone so resell is going to be hard