Google Pixel 8 Pro
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- Tyoung
- Nue
- 16 Nov 2023
This phone is garbage.. the WhatsApp is not well optimized and when used on charge it fails to add more battery.. google is a joke
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- todde
- yJt
- 16 Nov 2023
Debbie, 16 Nov 2023Honestly, the best design and phone award goes only to Pixe... moreHTC team? Stop living in the past. Google have completely different people since P4 line and P6 working on the design.
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- Debbie
- IB%
- 16 Nov 2023
Honestly, the best design and phone award goes only to Pixel 8 Pro.. Good job Htc design team, Such a beautifully crafted phone this is. No words for matte bay blue .. just outstanding colour.. I could look at it forever and never get bored ..
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- Ravenowl
- raQ
- 15 Nov 2023
Remember the following:
1. Benchmarks do NOT reflect actual usage. You're just comparing numbers and we're already way past what you need for a phone, to the point where budget phones can run "high end mobile games" just fine. At that point thermals become more of an issue.
2. Optimization...yeah, that's definitely a big one. Genshin Impact, for example, runs pretty bad on the P8P regardless of the settings. It seems to be a massive caching issue, and it runs just fine once you looked at everything in that location/played all animations. And the shader compiling after updates takes maybe a good 20 to 30 minutes. My previous Xperia 5 II ran Genshin smoothly. My P8P, despite way higher benchmark result, does not. So again, irrelevant numbers really.
3. Adding to the 1st point, remember that companies, especially Samsung, were caught cheating in benchmarks before. Not really hard if you code it into the system to overclock and go easy on the thermal throttling whenever X app is detected. Just like that, higher numbers.
The only 2 things that one can legitimately throw shit around for are mildly worse battery life (though VERY usage dependant, of course...I've had no issues with it) and almost iPhone price despite technically inferior specs. Like, the pricing isn't even equal to the competition: It's higher. I could get a Samsung S23 Ultra for a good 100 to 200 EUR LESS. But yeah, GrapheneOS. As OneUI is horrendous garbage and custom installations aren't a great idea even if Samsung wasn't trying to prevent those, I'd rather just pay more for the better software.
It's terrible, but in the end, there's simply no option without some sizeable compromises. If you have any amount of care for a zero-bloat, secure and private system, that is.
I can't wait for Google to switch to TSMC. Might still end up being pricey (whatever really, you ain't buying this every year, and if you do, you don't care about price), but maybe we'll get top tier hard- and software in one for once.
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- NotsoFast
- nC4
- 15 Nov 2023
Fan, 14 Nov 20231700/4500 is still impressive. Very close to 8Gen2 ... I di... more"I am wondering if they restricted the performance of small cores with software? Does this mean they can increase it with the future update?"
I don't know why you think that, November update did not change anything, Geekbench peak scores are the same as on release, around ~ +1700/4500 mark.
Those higher 1872/4980 scores are either from overclocked device or pre-release test device which had Cluster 1 small cores at higher clock.
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- bob
- PXf
- 15 Nov 2023
Honestly, this phone is pretty cool, but lacks some new stuff, I guess the screen is a improvement and stuff but I’m sure they could’ve done better.
The one thing that this phones gets right is the software, I love how it looks!
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- Fan
- IB%
- 14 Nov 2023
NotsoFast, 14 Nov 2023Don't be so enthusiastic about it. There are few th... more1700/4500 is still impressive. Very close to 8Gen2 ... I did the test and the score was 1774/4681 on my 8 Pro ... I am wondering if they restricted the performance of small cores with software? Does this mean they can increase it with the future update?
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- NotsoFast
- nC4
- 14 Nov 2023
Anonymous, 13 Nov 2023Yes and with November update also performance is now much b... moreDon't be so enthusiastic about it.
There are few things: First, those scores are higher because small cores are at higher 2.15GHz clock and not 1.7GHz as per usual with G3. Second, Governor is named as "schedutil" and not "sched_pixel" as all retail P8 Pro models. So, it is either an overclocked model with higher clock speed, or test device with higher clock cores. Lastly, my P8 Pro is on latest November update and my phone scores around 1700/4500 as Cluster 1 cores are the same 1.7GHz as before.
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- AAr
- 14 Nov 2023
Fan, 14 Nov 2023That's impressive, So it is equal to Snapdragon 8Gen2 ... moreNO, it is not equal to Snapdragon 8Gen just watch tests I mean real tests. It is still the same sh*t from Samsung, unstable.
Pixel is good if you want use GrapheneOS if not, If you don't care and use whole crap from Meta, TikTok ect. just get any phone.
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- Fan
- IB%
- 14 Nov 2023
Anonymous, 13 Nov 2023Yes and with November update also performance is now much b... moreThat's impressive, So it is equal to Snapdragon 8Gen2 now ... But how did they increase the clock speed of Cluster 1 small cores? From 1.7ghz to 2.15ghz!!! Does this mean the performance of small cores was restricted with software before?
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- Anonymous
- nin
- 13 Nov 2023
Shamrock Sean, 09 Nov 2023Got November update just now and whatever Google did they i... moreYes and with November update also performance is now much better on Geekbench 6 benchmark.
1872 single core.
4980 multi core.
Good job Google. 💯
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/3524381
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- Win23
- IB%
- 13 Nov 2023
the design got me.. 😍 Blue is freakin so beautiful
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- here we go again
- nC4
- 09 Nov 2023
PanRT, 08 Nov 2023Pixel 8/Pro use new Isocell GNK..Just speculation, based on sensor size and one tweet on Twitter, same as it was with GN2 and later with GNV. It is not official nor confirmed.
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- Shamrock Sean
- BiP
- 09 Nov 2023
Anonymous, 29 Oct 2023Good said…stay intelligent 👍🏼With my 30w charger I find my Pixel 8 Pro charges pretty fast actually
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- Shamrock Sean
- BiP
- 09 Nov 2023
Got November update just now and whatever Google did they improved signal it's now rock solid as before it was always fluctuating
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- Yash
- 7kp
- 06 Nov 2023
GSMARENA team,
Please post some action shots(Volleyball/Tennis/golf or Moving pet shots), for which we generally use our smartphones . The shutter speeds of almost all brands except Google are real poor. They struggle a lot with action photos even in great lighting conditions. This feed back might help other brands to focus on action photos too.
We use our smartphone camera for People photos, pets, Kids playing and Portraits hen least last priority is ultrawide landscape photos.
We all know that subject cant always be super steady.
Thanks,
Yash
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- Jadon
- X5u
- 06 Nov 2023
Nice phone
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- Ravenowl
- raQ
- 05 Nov 2023
mqmorasch, 01 Nov 2023I am more curious about the reception. The 7 has very poor ... moreAt least in the EU, I've had no issues. Signal is stellar for me, even getting a stable connection in buildings where I could not get any signal at all with my Xperia 5 II before. Might be different elsewhere tho.
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- Doug
- Y6u
- 01 Nov 2023
Anonymous, 20 Oct 2023There is probably 1-2% of all smartphone users who uses the... moreYea, I had a Galaxy S8 before my P7P and iPhone 14 Pro Max. I was definitely behind the times. Now I got a P8P !