Android phones like you love them you hate them you can buy them anywhere
pretty much Walmart your local gas station target the homeless person that
might live next to your house but it is one thing that I know about Android
phones as a recent they're getting pretty frickin expensive so in this
video I want to tell you about the best budget Android phone you can get for
under 250 bucks and it's a zombie what something might've confused you zombie
right how did the zombie have anything to do with the phone well this is the
essential phone or the essential pH one and anybody knows anything about
essential you know the company pretty much went under well they went under and
then they came back I kind of liked this phone this phone is like the gift that
keeps on giving it's been a cancelled product you can't buy it on their
website anymore but you can get it refurbished for like two hundred and
thirty bucks on Amazon for that price you won't find anything better than this
phone I can guarantee this is better than your mama's cooking it's better
than your grandma's gravy it's better than your Grandpa's toenails that are on
the ground that are extra crispy that you threw in a deep fryer and you pick
them up and you put up in your mouth thick and that the skittles better than
that so even though this is a year old you're still getting a fantastic build I
mean most $250 smartphones are gonna have like plastic parts maybe you might
get one that's made of aluminum or or even some type of metal but this one
ceramic back with titanium around the sides you're not gonna find a $250 phone
that is built this good you do get Gorilla Glass in the front and
technically this is the first phone to set off that whole teardrop notch
you know trend so really this was ahead of its time this thing launched at seven
hundred bucks so for two hundred and like I think it's like two hundred
thirty bucks on Amazon you can't beat this so I mean with this phone you get
all of the essentials hence the name essential phone see what I did there
gosh gotcha though clever thumbs up the
minute you get a headphone jack and I'm pointing to the fingerprint scanner
because that's what I do that's how I roll you get a fingerprint scanner you
get dual cameras you get a little accessory port thing here where you can
take like magnetic accessory now and release a lot they came out with like
the 360 camera module and then they came out with a headphone module because you
don't get a headphone jack like I just said but you can put one there so you
get a headphone jack and it around the area that I was pointing initially you
get USB C and one thing I didn't like which I think I covered in my initial
review was they put the SIM card slot on the bottom right next to a microphone
and a lot of people actually pop their microphone using the SIM card tool so
just be careful with that if you decide to get one for yourself
I don't even know what was rattling like itll the moment he crossed the line I
just stopped we're gonna get shot oh
shit all I can think about is my death now so I know I said this thing has two
cameras but I'm not gonna lie to you if you use the stock camera app it's it's
pretty garbage it looks really muddy it's it's it's not a good good situation
to be in but if you take the time out and you
download the Google pixel camera apk which is like six dot something that's
the one that I got on the phone it takes the camera experience to a whole nother
level let me just give you a quick example and put some like quick samples
up on the screen and show you what I mean so another thing I want to talk
about is I think this is like the only smartphone on the market that can do 4k
with the front-facing camera not saying that you would want to because you're
gonna see like every crack and crevice and pour on your face but if you wanted
to you technically could if there's another smartphone that you guys can
think of that can do this let me know down in the comments section but yeah I
hope hope you like my forehead it's kind of wrinkly so another really cool thing
is if you put the Google pixel camera apk on the essential phone you do get
nitesite you get the HDR processing that the pixel and Google phones are known
for and you also get really good portrait mode for the most part and I
might have told you guys like a little bit of a fib like after looking at the
photos essential really has fixed a lot of their camera issues and the quality
just using the stock camera app isn't that bad at all
so in terms of specs you're looking at the snapdragon 835 you get four gigs
around I'm not quite sure what the milliamp hour is on the battery I think
it's like 3000 milliamp hours pretty sure it's it's that battery life isn't
the best it does have fast charging and the fast charger that you get in the box
is like none other it's got chamfered edges what other
phone manufacturers giving you a charger with Sanford edges you get braided
cables you get a USB see the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack that's also
braided now the performance is great it's running the latest version of
Android which mind you this phone was the first phone to actually get Android
Pi that I mean that says something so I'm running Nova on here it looks great
it looks just like it does pretty much on the pixel I disable the gestures in
settings but if you go back into the settings and then go under system and
then gestures you can enable swipe up from home button go ahead and do that
real quick just to show you so you can swipe up for your recent apps and then
go back and in swipe out from your dock to get to your apps I just prefer the
home button I'm just kind of old-school but anyways you can see it's very fluid
very snappy everything works just as it should if we go back into the settings I
can show you that it is running Android Pi with the latest February update so
we'll go to about phone and Android version 9 it's on the February patch so
the display is actually really nice it's a little bit higher than a 1080p display
you're looking at like 13 12 by 2560 so almost quad HD but not quite and it
looks great I mean if you can deal with like a slightly dimmer display and super
reflective you're gonna be just fine but really that's my only two gripes when it
comes to this display I mean it's almost bezel as' it does have a slight chin
right here but that doesn't really bother me and my bother you but it
doesn't bother me but going up to the top it goes all the way to the edge and
then all the way to the edges on the side here edges so let's wrap this thing
up I don't think you're gonna find a better Android phone for less than 250
bucks now I know it's refurbished and some of you guys might have a problem
with that but that's okay cuz it's not meant for everybody it's my video and I
don't have a problem with this so you shouldn't have a problem either but
either way I'm gonna link a few refurbished models down below in the
description so if you feel like checking out this phone and you want a budget
Android device whether it's your backup phone or as like your kid's first phone
or even a first phone for you maybe you were living in the dark ages and it's
time for you to get a phone all that can be found in the description my only
issue with this phone is probably battery life but they do include fast
charging it doesn't have wireless charging which kind of does suck but
I'll take no wireless charging for a ceramic back because I've been using
this thing for a year now and there's no scratches on it whatsoever
so again best phone probably best phone period under 250 bucks my personal
opinion hope you guys liked this video Oh real quick if you guys can think of
another foam that is better than this one for this price link it down below
and the section help you people out and talk to
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