Essential phone

[NFtoBC]

Telus announced as exclusive supplier of the new Essential phone

EDIT: Scooped by rholee!

[Lola]

I don't know. The name is awful. The shape is awful. The front camera looks like a pull tab. The aesthetic is all wrong, makes the phone look like a cheap knock-off.  But who knows--it might sell.

[ThisGuyDoesntCare]

Was reported today on MobileSyrup that Telus will sell the phone unlocked for $1050. What is worth noting however is that in the USA the phone is being sold on the manufacture website for $699 USD. Using today's exchange rate, that translates to approx. $890 CDN, but they will not ship to Canadian addresses. So Essentially (pardon the pun), this phone has a high markup of an extra $160 for us Canadians compared to those in the USA. I guess we are used to getting hosed in this country for a long time so why not right?

It just puts me off from wanting to buy this phone altogether now.

[NFtoBC]

Could be they are doing the same as Google did with the first Nexus phones; the price in the Google store was the same as they wholesaled it to carriers. Carriers (at least in Canada) had an uncharge of about $150 on their sales sites.