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Wesker, 17 May 2024Day one Pixel 8 Pro owner here. Thought I’d share my experi... moreAnd all the negative thanks to that renowned exynos!!! because google only wants profits but snooping!!! Don't get the typical comment, it's that Samsung sells the Exynos for 40 dollars and Qualcom's 8gen 3 costs 5 times that... So tell me something, how is it that Meizu, a company that is even going downhill to close the business of phones, can you mount the qualcom flagship soc plus the ultra sonico fingerprint reader? And Google, one of the richest American companies on the planet, can't do this on its phones? Google
should fire that CEO they have there and look for someone young who knows about technology.



Excellent review bro, I don't think anyone can give a better review than this!! It's not a bad phone, the bad thing is that shitty processor it has.

    Day one Pixel 8 Pro owner here. Thought I’d share my experience, after over 6 months of ownership.

    TLDR : Positives = Camera quality, great design | Negatives = everything else

    The positives : Camera (world class photos AND videos), beautiful and unique design. Very long software support, albeit with the following you’ll understand no one would willingly keep this phone seven years, so it’s not really a positive.

    First off, we must address the elephant in the room. Battery life. This phone charges PAINFULLY slow and discharges EXTREMELY fast. The opposite of what you want, right ?

    The 10 minutes top ups to 50% is a concept Google seemingly never heard of. You want half a charge ? Better sit & wait half an hour.
    Now the discharge, and this is where the real drama clocks in. This phone EATS battery, ON IDLE. On your average 9 to 5 workday (no camera, no games, just basic apps) you’ll head home with 15% tops. Phone dead by 7pm, then full charge will eat 90 minutes off your schedule, better not be in a hurry.

    Now try to make a bit of power usage out of your power user phone : A bit of pictures for work at 10am, a short 4K video at 1pm, a bit of Fallout Shelter on the toilet at 2pm. You’re now looking at a 4pm shutdown.

    Now let’s go real on the camera, after all this is a camera flagship and it should be your reliable companion on a field day. Starting at 10 am : pictures, videos, a bit of editing, about 40 pictures taken and 3 videos of 10 minutes each. Shutdown at 1PM.

    The CPU just eats battery on IDLE doing NOTHING. Throw anything heavy at it and you’ll head home with a dead phone, one that died long before your day was over. Simple as that.

    Keep in mind that this is my experience with a 6-month-old device, and it will get worse and worse as the battery cell degrades over time. One can only wonder how many cell replacements this phone will need to get to the end of its famed software support.

    Now we need to talk UI and animations because this isn’t good either. Stellar 120hz OLED panel and stock android should be a recipe for smoothness, but not here. Actually, some animations including the cool lock screen clock aren’t even 60hz. Switching apps isn’t 120hz either, nor is scrolling. More like 40-90hz tops, and never constant, with the occasional but very rare peak at 120. This phone FEELS slow, and yet feel like it's struggling to achieve slowness.

    One day I had to handle a coworker’s A54 to tweak a few things. I was SHOCKED by the smoothness, this was indeed true 120hz, which only happens a few times a day on Pixel 8 Pro. I realized what I was missing on by handling an Exynos mid-ranger.
    I understand the need for a dynamic framerate, not locked at 120hz all the time to save battery. But only reaching 120hz 8 times a day and still having a mediocre battery life wasn’t what I had in mind.

    Finally, the optical, under-display fingerprint scanner. This, my friends, is an antique piece of hardware that belongs to a museum. Remember the Huawei Mate RS from 2018 ? One of the first phones with UDFS. The technology was so experimental and unreliable, that Huawei also included an optical fingerprint sensor on the back of the device, just in case. Well, this is what you have on the Pixel 8, and no optical sensor backup in sight.

    Sometimes, it can take up to 2 full seconds of contact to….successfully fail to unlock. After it fails 3 times or so, it will ask you to enter your password, making one-hand unlocks a luck job. Sometimes it will successfully unlock after a couple tries, but a couple tries of 2-3 seconds each makes unlocking your phone a five second job which is just painfully slow.
    The occasional one tap magic is as rare as the occasional 120hz peak in the UI.

    I remember seeing this phone as a much better pick than the generic Galaxy and the boring iPhone, but I’d rather go boring or generic than having to handle this mess of an hardware Google sold me for 1159€.

    TLDR : Positives = Camera quality, great design | Negatives = everything else

      Anonymous, 16 May 2024pretty much not every phone. You think that automated tasks... moreBut I didn't mention automated tasks, did I? Just said that some tasks, not all, do use AI, say image processing, voice assistants, battery management, security, predictive text, personalization...etc. These all use artificial intelligence

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        David 040882, 13 May 2024🤦 Pretty much every smartphone uses AI dude. But they are s... morepretty much not every phone. You think that automated tasks is AI but it's not :P. Do some research what is AI and what is automated tasks and what are differences about them.

          Anonymous, 13 May 2024So basically what you mean is if you have a sticker called ... more🤦 Pretty much every smartphone uses AI dude. But they are small tasks done in the background. So again, I'm not talking about the big AI features like the ones on the S24s or Google's Pixels. I'm talking about AI in general and when taking it like that, every phone has some sort of AI functions. It's simple

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            David 040882, 13 May 2024It was never about rivaling Samsung or Google, but about si... moreSo basically what you mean is if you have a sticker called "AI" on your phone you have real AI, It doesn't matter if you have real AI features which are useful lol

              Anonymous, 13 May 2024"The Edge 50 Ultra already comes with some AI function... moreIt was never about rivaling Samsung or Google, but about simply having AI features, small or big, many or few

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                David 040882, 12 May 2024Motorola already did and will do with the X50 Ultra, vivo i... more"The Edge 50 Ultra already comes with some AI functionality, e.g. a generative model for custom wallpapers and a system that adjusts the camera settings based on the scene."

                I doubt with 2 the most simple AI features you can say that it rivals samsung and pixel lol

                  BahjatT, 11 May 2024Sundar Pichai is too shy to promote the Pixel series. He is... moreThat doesn't depend on him!! I don't know why the brothers who own and founded Google haven't fired that guy!! and look for a ceo who is like tim cup and takes the pixel series to the next level and throws samsung and their industrial kitchen socs in the trash

                    Anonymois, 12 May 2024Literally only few companies at the moment? Did you forgot ... moreMotorola already did and will do with the X50 Ultra, vivo is just about to with the X100s series thanks to the Dimensity 9300+ chipset, and Apple will most certainly bring AI features into the 16 series next autumn.

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                      David 040882, 10 May 2024Don't worry, as you can see, literally every company j... moreLiterally only few companies at the moment? Did you forgot about apple, nothing, vivo, oneplus, motorola....? They don't have anything special like pixel and samsung does only google lens and that's it

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                        Sundar Pichai is too shy to promote the Pixel series. He is pretty much living in the 2000s (decade) and still holding on to old business models and revenue streams. Pixel is going no where, the place Google is nowadays. Don't be surprised if he puts Android for sale too.

                          Anonymous, 10 May 2024Overhyped samsung? Give me another phone which will have sm... moreDon't worry, as you can see, literally every company jumped onto this AI adventure so these features will arrive (and already are on some devices) in no time

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                            Leo, 09 May 2024Ultra fast charging flagship just like OnePlus 12. That pho... moreOverhyped samsung? Give me another phone which will have smart tag, spen, 7 years of software update, circle to search (I use it everyday), spelling and grammar AI, alternative to samsung dex, fast 0-day issue fixing, USB power delivery pause, alternative to 10-15 modules that goodlock( or fine lock) has and so on.... I use even more features from samsung.

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                              Panther G, 08 May 2024What do you prefer, a fast charging midrange or a slower ch... moreUltra fast charging flagship just like OnePlus 12. That phone is excellent in almost every aspect! Better than 8 Pro and over hyped s24u sh**t.

                                What do you prefer, a fast charging midrange or a slower charging flagship?

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                                  Anonymous, 07 May 2024I'm wise and wouldn't go near a damn iphone 😂It's just personal taste nowadays. There are plenty of options. All phones have smooth experience, great battery life.

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                                    Anonymous, 25 Apr 2024No it's not. Less features compared to samsung, google... moreI'm wise and wouldn't go near a damn iphone 😂

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                                      BMHater12, 04 May 2024Xiaomi is superior tho, cameras are strong and the performa... moreI doubt china version supports esim + need charger adapter. That's why china number 2!

                                        Azu10157, 13 Apr 2024Well my mother has the P8P. I just held it once one time wh... moreIs it because of the AV1 codec being used? Heard it renders through software instead of hardware

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