Essential is now selling accessories, including the dongle, from their website

[mogelijk]

They are charging $15 for the dongle, $39 for a spare charging brick, and two set of USB-C earbuds for $49 and $99. They also have a wireless charger for the phone, though it is not yet available for purchase (and no price listed), as well as a case for your 360 camera. You can find these items on Essential's website.

Will you buy any of these accessories through Essential?

 

[morriea]

I ordered the cheaper earbuds earlier today. I do not expect them to sound exceptional, but I dislike all the drops when moving around using my Bluetooth ones.

 

[SactoKingsFan]

Not interested in most of the available accessories. Might get another charger. The dongle works fine but you can get a much higher quality one from Razer for $20. I want the charging dock and some nice cases.

 

[digitalbreak]

I want their charging dock but they are just working on it forever!

 

[anon(10268214)]

Great news but...not available outside the US? Come on Essential!

 

[rld082982]

They should be fixing the HORRID camera instead! It's a freaking chore to take a picture... and I'm not talking about quality, I mean the general slowness and half the time the phone freezes. Ridiculous

 

[Morty2264]

That's great that they are doing that! Good for them! Hopefully that will help raise more awareness of what the Essential Phone can do.

 

[deppi0]

They should be fixing the HORRID camera instead! It's a freaking chore to take a picture... and I'm not talking about quality, I mean the general slowness and half the time the phone freezes. Ridiculous

I don't believe it's that bad anymore... Actually it's pretty good. If you hate it use the Google one...

 

[adebo]

Curious to see what the price of the dock will be. I'm worried they are going to go with too premium and have too high of a price.

 

[msp1518]

I don't believe it's that bad anymore... Actually it's pretty good. If you hate it use the Google one...

It sucks. Just horrid when you need it quick. The iphone is ten times better when it comes to needing a quick snap. ANY iPhone.

As for accessories... The dock charger is what I want.

 

[rld082982]

I don't believe it's that bad anymore... Actually it's pretty good. If you hate it use the Google one...

The google camera is no improvement. I'm typing this on my computer after my phone just froze from taking 1 picture (with google apk). And actually after about 2-3 minutes of the phone completely unresponsive, i just got an error "Camera error. The camera device encountered a fatal error."

 

[msp1518]

Last night I was at a wine tasting event and the Essential's camera failed COMPLETELY! I could not take one decent picture. Meanwhile every single iphone 6, 6S, 7, 8 and X were nailing the pics every time.

 

[rld082982]

Last night I was at a wine tasting event and the Essential's camera failed COMPLETELY! I could not take one decent picture. Meanwhile every single iphone 6, 6S, 7, 8 and X were nailing the pics every time.

Yup! That's been my experience as well. Don't you love it?