The nascent smartphone company Essential launched its first device, the Essential Phone, several months ago. The device has been on the market for five months now and there are still complaints about various issues that users encounter from time to time. Touch latency happens to be one of those issues on the Essential Phone and the company has confirmed that it’s working on a fix for it.
A sluggish response from the touchscreen display is never appreciated by smartphone owners, particularly not when it’s a device with flagship-level specification. Therefore, Essential Phone users are justified in complaining about touch latency on their device.
Essential engineers revealed in the most recent AMA on Reddit that the company has “pulled aside resources” that are specifically committed to improving touch and latency on the Essential Phone. “There are trade offs we are testing internally and our goal is to provide something in the 8.1 release we just need to make sure by fixing the jitter issue that we are not creating another problem,” the company added.
This goes to show that Essential really has been working to come up with a fix for this issue and that it’s only going to roll one out when it’s absolutely certain that the fix won’t create another problem for users. Precisely when this fix is going to be released is anybody’s guess right now.
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