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Anonymous, 30 Dec 2023"I've always pushed phones so I killed them fast,... moresome photo and video editing, lots of photo and video taking, some gaming but also some emulation as well. It's like I'm not occasionally pushing the phone, I'm doing it at a medium-high rate constantly. I've gauged that by the heat of the phone, I'm yet to see a phone with which I'm satisfied by the thermals.

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    teraflop, 30 Dec 2023Honestly I just cant agree with you, it all sounds that you... moreLiterally this. As someone who uses Apple ecosystem and tries Android flagships from time to time, I can absolutely agree. If you take let's say similar year iPhone and Ultra, there is basically no real world difference, iPhones chips is way faster, but it does not matter at all as they both age the same way, no matter all this additional power, which is only peek power which is basically never used, nor sustained. If someone says that iPhones feels faster, it is absolute nonsense, and that person probably never even used said phones side by side and just speaking purely based spec sheets.

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      jiyen235, 29 Dec 2023I'm just speaking from my experience and as I said, it... moreHonestly I just cant agree with you, it all sounds that you are speaking based on spec sheets and benchmarks and not real world outcome. I always carry both iPhone and Android phone since 2017, upgrading both when I do and from my experience and in general, no matter that iPhones SoC are faster, it slows down the same way, it does not feel any faster next to same year Samsung Ultra or even Pixel, even when iPhone chip have such a higher performance buffer or in other words additional power spare, it is literally irrelevant.

      All phones throttle, literally a minute or few minutes later when pushed, iPhone 15 Pro Max actually throttle even faster than P8 Pro. With that said, phones are not made for sustained performance and it is not going to happen anytime soon, peek power is one thing, sustained is another. Phones keep increasing power, yet thermal/cooling cap is reacted years ago and all this power cant even be used in real world, it is basically useless in a phone as it cant sustain it at all, yet it is perfect for marketing. Perfect example is laptops, they been capped and limited for years with power draw cap, because of limited cooling solutions and thermal throttling, you can lets say market PC 4080 and Laptop 4080 as same gpus, yet performance gap and difference is massive.

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        • 30 Dec 2023

        jiyen235, 29 Dec 2023I'm just speaking from my experience and as I said, it... more"I've always pushed phones so I killed them fast, I mean that's what flagships are for right? More performance and power that you can use?"

        If you are talking about games by saying "pushed" and "what flagships are for right", then I guess all I can say "okay".

          TedexAMP, 27 Dec 2023i don't know about that. i have iphone 14 pro max and ... moreI'm just speaking from my experience and as I said, it won't be slow, but rather slower than how it was at the start, I saw it in phones, TVs, cameras and even computers. Benchmarks are one thing but the day to day usage is just slower and choppier than before.

          Also, the Pixel 8 series have some either awful thermal throttling or bad heating issues, combined with that you'll get a hotter phone which would eat away at the battery extremely fast. I've seen it time and time again with Samsung flagships I've used and my cousin's Pixel 7 does indeed heat up a lot so I'm guessing this would heat more due to the faster chip and higher grade displays. The average consumer won't notice it tho, and if you don't push the phones you won't notice it as well. I've always pushed phones so I killed them fast, I mean that's what flagships are for right? More performance and power that you can use? Most people would be happy with a midranger if the brand value were high enough.

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            jiyen235, 27 Dec 2023I'm not saying they'll be slow, but they'll ... morei don't know about that. i have iphone 14 pro max and regular pixel 8 as work phone, and pixel seem a lot more faster and snappier, yet iphones chip is so much more "powerful". so saying that somehow after two years or so pixel will be slow is absolute nonsense.

              Anonymous, 26 Dec 2023Gaming is one thing, yet even old Pixel 2 XL and Pixel 4 XL... moreI'm not saying they'll be slow, but they'll be far slower than they were. You will feel it because you've used the phone all those years.

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                jiyen235, 26 Dec 2023If you've never owned a phone for a long time you won&... moreGaming is one thing, yet even old Pixel 2 XL and Pixel 4 XL are still plenty snappy and don't and feel slow at all even today, even when compared to iPhone 14 Pro.

                P8 Pro have plenty of power, efficiency could be better though. The worst and non-excusable thing is still using UFS3.1 memory.

                  Anonymous, 26 Dec 2023Thing is most consumers dont even care about absolute raw c... moreIf you've never owned a phone for a long time you won't know what the problem is for a slower chip. The longer you own a phone the slower it feels and the choppier it gets, better base performance allows you to have better longevity. Additionally gaming performance is superior in stronger chips by default, if I buy an iPhone I get some of the best gaming performance, if I get a Pixel I have to think about what settings to use. Midrange level performance is unacceptable for a 1k dollar phone. If I were to buy a phone for day to day tasks only I'd buy a midrange phone, like the "majority" of people, not a flagship.

                  Stop making excuses for poor hardware and poor value.

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                    jiyen235, 25 Dec 2023complaining about what one does with something they buy wit... moreThing is most consumers dont even care about absolute raw chip performance nor even notice the difference, all these complaints are from spec nerds, or even from people that use cheap up to mid range phones. Even several years old flagships are plenty powerful and fast.

                      Brightlight, 24 Dec 2023December update significantly improved the gaming performan... morecomplaining about what one does with something they buy with their money is pretty stupid especially when the phone is expensive. If this were a midrange phone like the Poco F5 Pro the backdated chip would've been fine, but this costs as much as a Oneplus 11 if not more, at that point the iPhones are more enticing if someone wants a closed off "barebones" kind of experience. The Pixel 2 and the Nexus 6P were the most balanced google phones, no glaring issues just a different taste for an android flagship. If the Pixel 8 were the same price as before I wouldn't have complained but the price hikes just aren't justifiable for the mid chip. If they can't have high performance at least aim for high sustained performance and low heat. They can't do either right. The battery efficiency is better than before but not as good as the competitors so yeah, the complaints are justified imo at least. The Pixels also have slower storages, and the base Pixel 8 maxes out at 8 gb of ram. Instead of focusing on AI features which most people would use 10% of the time, say it's cool and then forget about it, they should focus on a better experience that would benefit more people, if they wish to sell more and to create a better product. The pixel series is the type which can be improved just by providing updates to the software instead of the hardware, their main features are software ones so why bother releasing phones yearly?

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                        Gaia, 23 Dec 2023It depends on what you do with the phone. For gaming someti... moreDecember update significantly improved the gaming performance of Tensor G3, GPU saw 20% to 30% performance boost, in some cases doubled the FPS, phone literally was operating on outdated kernel test drivers. With next major update it is mentioned to improve yet again, as on latest Beta version, performs even better than on latest stable version. So it is pretty decent now. Yet I don't get "gaming" on a phone in general, there are better ways of procrastinating and wasting time, at the same time heavily wasting and degrading battery.

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                          gh, 14 Dec 2023thermometer huh? does anyone remember the term soli radar b... moreI'd say the thermometer is more useful because Soli hardly works anyway.

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                            whale., 18 Dec 2023Stop spreading nonsense. G3 goes between 8+ Gen 1 and 8 ... moreIt depends on what you do with the phone. For gaming sometimes it performs like a SD 870. For heavy emulation it works as a midrange chipset from 2021. It performs extremely good if you don't do heavy tasks.

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                              Big Head Professor , 20 Dec 2023turtle and whale good jokeNot sure what's the joke in there? What he said is true.

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                                whale., 18 Dec 2023Stop spreading nonsense. G3 goes between 8+ Gen 1 and 8 ... moreturtle and whale
                                good joke

                                  gh, 14 Dec 2023thermometer huh? does anyone remember the term soli radar b... morePixel 4xl

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                                    turtle., 08 Dec 2023bro wdym by continues to be disappointing lmao. sd 8 gen 3 ... moreStop spreading nonsense.

                                    G3 goes between 8+ Gen 1 and 8 Gen 2. Which is around in between the two.

                                    It is behind for sure compared to the newest top of the line chips, but yet in manages to do certain things better or even faster, like certain rendering scenarios and etc. Snapdragon with TSMC is finally pushing Apple, which is great.

                                    But mentioning 865 is just funny, even G2 was better than 888. So yeah, sounds like it is your hobby to spread random nonsensical "facts".

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                                      Danish07, 12 Dec 2023How to root it?Why would you need root?
                                      All what you might need is installing GrapheneOS, how? And why? Just do a bit research.

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                                        thermometer huh? does anyone remember the term soli radar back in days?

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