Overall speed - Essential Phone Real Life Review

Would you say that the Essential Phone is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the Essential Phone exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?
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I'm getting ran Antutu and am seeing 173K, but only when the phone has been sitting idle.
If anything has been running it drops to 150K.
If it's warm or you have been running games that are compute intensive, the phone will throttle down to 120K.
Thermal throttling is way aggressive on this device.

I believe software updates can make it a easy 5

Just got one since the price dropped on Amazon. Right now, it's a backup phone, but playing around with
it, it's LIGHTNING fast. I use Nova Prime for the launcher. Screen is clear as a bell!

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Heat

Some phones are great to take camping because if you play Asphalt 8 long enough, the back warms up to the ideal temperature that can bake bread. Rate this thread to express the extent to which the Huawei Mate 9 stays cool under extended heavy use. A higher rating indicates that even when playing strenuous games for long periods of time, the phone doesn't get uncomfortably warm.
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Best heat management I've seen in a while, op3 has the best heat management I saw before until I use mate 9. heat , mate 9 it's even better than op3.
Never had a phone which runs this cool all the time. At it's worst, it feels warm to touch, but never ever has gotten hot. Not even remotely. I agree, wife's OP3 does get warmer/hotter than my Mate 9.
Playing War Robots yield High Temperature
I'd have to say this phone is pretty low in temperature when playing games.
My old nexus 6 always got pretty hot playing hearthstone. This one doesn't even break a sweat.
It only warms up a little when it's fresh on the charger here.
My Mate 9 has automatically shut itself down on a few occasions due to overheating when I had the camera open and was taking pictures or recording video for an extended period (~5 min or so). Anyone else notice this?
I've had this for a few months and it's honestly never felt hot to me.
My previous phone was the Moto X Pure Edition (2015). Any kind of activities such as watching a movie, play a simple game, and I can use it as a mini thermal fusion reactor.
I haven't had any issues with heat so far with my Mate 9.
Loving this phone and easily my most well-liked phone since my original Galaxy Note.
I thought the Mate8 was fast, this one is even better.
The only time my Mate 9 warms up is when I use Waze as the GPS . The trip took more than an hour and the phone felt uncomfortably warm after about 30 minutes.
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The only time my Mate 9 warms up is when I use Waze as the GPS . The trip took more than an hour and the phone felt uncomfortably warm after about 30 minutes.
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I use Waze (daily for 1h30) and can honestly say I have never felt my Mate 9 anything more than slightly warm.
Did you have your heating vent pointing at it perhaps? Or in direct sunlight?
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Never got some heat.... Unless using the wrong charger....! Cool phone ever...

Heat

Some phones are great to take camping because if you play Asphalt 8 long enough, the back warms up to the ideal temperature that can bake bread. Rate this thread to express the extent to which the Lenovo Zuk Z2 Pro stays cool under extended heavy use. A higher rating indicates that even when playing strenuous games for long periods of time, the phone doesn't get uncomfortably warm.
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Stock ZUI thermal-engine.conf is pretty conservative, and starts throttling at pretty low temperatures, which seems to actually make it potentially more unstable switching CPU states and sometimes hard freezing. Definitely recommend using the one from @void23's kernel with AEX 4.6 (note, just the thermal config, not the kernel until he updates it for 4.6) and it won't throttle so hard, benchmarks higher, and still stays really cool in comparison to some of the speed demons out there.
Compared to my Mi-4c it stays much cooler and takes several times longer to heat up. It never gets unbearably warm either. The Xiaomi's screen gets so hot it can't even differentiate my touch points.
My phone gets hot as soon as I play a game or convert a video. I had to root my device and limited it's CPU frequency to avoid it getting hot quickly. Now it's only warm but of course not very speedy.
Any solution?

Heat

Some phones are great to take camping because if you play Asphalt 8 long enough, the back warms up to the ideal temperature that can bake bread. Rate this thread to express the extent to which the Moto G5 stays cool under extended heavy use. A higher rating indicates that even when playing strenuous games for long periods of time, the phone doesn't get uncomfortably warm.
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This maybe the one letdown - when charging or doing something intensive the phone can get very hot
Great, you just killed the little we had in this forum.
It happened to me a couple of weeks ago - with friends we were trying out Hypernom, a vr app for walking in a non-euclidean space. Then we put the vr headset with the phone aside to discuss the experiences. After a while the phone rang, I got a call. I took it out to answer, and nearly had an earburn - the beast was seriously hot! It just continued generating the real time stereo, without even having to move it, and from that it became so hot it really did hurt my ear.

Overall speed

Would you say that the Sony Xperia L1 is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the Sony Xperia L1 exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?
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This is, by far, the slowest phone I have ever owned. Like EXTREMELY slow.
Having read glowing reviews on it, I'm quite baffled...
Xperia L1 is not the best but is far from the worst. For me is great compared to cost.
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This is, by far, the slowest phone I have ever owned. Like EXTREMELY slow.
Having read glowing reviews on it, I'm quite baffled...
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To have a honest opinion the device is offering good hardware for the money he ask.
As a rating performance/cost is about 8/9 stars. The phone is really responsive and work sharp.
Google Chrome has been found to still obtain background data even when not in usage, so if you force stop and disable it you might notice a performance increase, especially in weaker networks? I used Firefox from the beginning so I have no comparison benchmarks, but it's worth a shot, and Firefox has a pretty good mobile web browser anyway.

Heat

Some phones are great to take camping because if you play Asphalt 8 long enough, the back warms up to the ideal temperature that can bake bread. Rate this thread to express the extent to which the Honor 8 Pro stays cool under extended heavy use. A higher rating indicates that even when playing strenuous games for long periods of time, the phone doesn't get uncomfortably warm.
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The phone does heat up while doing some gpu intensive tasks like gaming or VR. The phone feels warm but definitely not uncomfortable while using it. And since now I've been using it as my daily driver with routine tasks, the heating has reduced quite a bit, it is not noticeable now.
The back panel is metal so it cools down easily.
I played for 30 minutes with wifi on , it didn't reached high temperature , i didn't feel any discomfort.
Good.
I loved to play the modern combat 5 , it smoother than butter.
you throw anything and it will handle very well. no heating at all.
ho,handling gaming,multitasking pretty well
no heat issue for me.
Heating fixed after B150 update.

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