Essential Phone now available for pre-order in Canada, only from TELUS
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Aug. 18, 2017) - TELUS (TSX:T)(NYSE:TU) announced today that Essential
Phone is now available for pre-order at telus.com/essential. This new
premium smartphone is the first product launch from Essential, the company recently created by Android co-founder, Andy Rubin. It
will be available for purchase at TELUS locations across Canada and on telus.com in September, starting at $290 on a two-year
Premium Plus plan or $1050 outright.
Essential Phone is expertly crafted using titanium and ceramic, and features an edge-to-edge full display and dual camera
system that eliminates any 'camera bump' in the industrial design. It also comes with top-of-the-line specs and 128GB of memory.
Essential Phone is part of a modular ecosystem of accessories, including the world's smallest 4K 360 camera. The Essential 360
Camera, coming soon to TELUS retailing at $270, simply clicks onto the phone to easily point, shoot and share.
"We're very pleased to bring Essential Phone to Canadians including the unique Essential 360 Camera, all backed by Canada's
largest and fastest mobile network1 and amazing customer service," said Robert Currie, Vice-President Mobile Devices
at TELUS. "We take pride in carrying the latest smartphones and technology, ensuring that our customers have the greatest
selection of products to suit their lifestyle."
For complete details and pricing for Essential Phone at TELUS visit telus.com/essential. For more information on Essential Phone visit essential.com.
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX:T)(NYSE:TU) is Canada's fastest-growing national telecommunications company, with $13 billion of annual
revenue and 12.8 million subscriber connections, including 8.7 million wireless subscribers, 1.7 million high-speed Internet
subscribers, 1.3 million residential network access lines and 1.1 million TELUS TV customers. TELUS provides a wide range of
communications products and services, including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and
video. TELUS is also Canada's largest healthcare IT provider, and TELUS International delivers business process solutions around
the globe.
In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed over $482 million to
charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered more than 7.7 million hours of service to local communities since
2000. Created in 2005 by President and CEO Darren Entwistle, TELUS' 12 Canadian community boards and 5 International boards have
led the Company's support of grassroots charities and have contributed more than $60 million in support of 5,595 local charitable
projects, enriching the lives of more than 2 million children and youth, annually. TELUS was honoured to be named the most
outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the first
Canadian company to receive this prestigious international recognition.
For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.
1 TELUS mobility measured fastest overall download speed among 3 national providers in the OpenSignal independent
study State of Mobile Networks: Canada (Jan 2017). Data is collected from regular consumer smartphones and recorded under
conditions of normal usage. Measurements were collected from 15,272 users during the period: Oct 1st - Dec 31st 2016. Your
experiences may vary.