Google Pixel 8 review

24 October 2023


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Sad to report that it is already broken after two weeks of use. The back part of the phone is made out of glass and it cracked fairly easily. Why on earth would they chose to make it so delicate :( . My pixel 5 still endures a lot more than that

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    • 25 Oct 2023

    The 83h endurance is bad but the browsing and video endurance is decent

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      • 25 Oct 2023

      Bruh, 25 Oct 2023Nobody asked for earphone jack and SD card now in 2023. Are... more*laughs in Sony*

        Anonymous, 25 Oct 2023SoCs with A73 to A78 + A53/55 do not have heat issues. X1... moreI just checked the rog6pro review, the phone had no problem sustaining it's performance without the cooler, just that it ran hotter.

        The Snap 8gen1 throttled down hard and went hot regardless of it.

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          • 25 Oct 2023

          anty428, 25 Oct 2023I bought this pixel 8 but I'm returning it. After 2 w... moreSame, assume that's why clear calling is set to disabled out of the box..

            Anonymous, 25 Oct 2023SoCs with A73 to A78 + A53/55 do not have heat issues. X1... moreAnd because 1 Snap 8+gen1 phone runs badly it suddenly

            makes the consistency with 50 other 8+gen1 and 8gen1 phones irrelevant?

            Nah, the regular 8gen1 got just poorly optimised by every single manufacturer in existence. It's not the 8gen1 at all.


            And somehow all the manufacturers but rog managed to Optimise the 8+gen1.

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              • 25 Oct 2023

              Battery life!!! High refresh rate... For nerds. I really did my best... Can't see any difference 60 .... 90 or 120... Really really tried.

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                • 25 Oct 2023

                Fa14bi, 25 Oct 2023You can look for the Pixel 8pro Video from Golden reviewer ... moreSoCs with A73 to A78 + A53/55 do not have heat issues.
                X1 and X2 are the problem.
                Too power hungry and generate huge heat.

                I am not talking about those thin phones clamshell. ROG 6 Pro , a "gaming " phone with 8+g1 made at TSMC did overheat during tests here until they used the external fan attached to it. Despite all internal fancy cooling system.

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                  • 25 Oct 2023

                  Fa14bi, 25 Oct 2023Did the 865 get consistent higher frame rates in games than... more56fps@720p > 60fps@680p .... Simple.

                  Example. D8000 can run Genshi at 60fps, at cost of resolution. What is point of having phone with 1080/1440p screen if game is run below HD?

                  No SoC with A73/A75/A76/A77/A78/ + A53/A55 is gonna show heat issues. The problem is X cores. X1 and X2 are 💩. If 888 was A7xx + A5xx, it would not be that bad.

                    Anonymous, 25 Oct 2023Does 865 have X core? No. Rog 6 Pro with 8+g1 overhea... moreYou can look for the Pixel 8pro Video from Golden reviewer and skip to Minute 12, there you can see the framerates of the Phones.

                    And also how all the 870 is above all the 888 and 8gen1.

                    The low ranking 8+gen1 are flip phones and flip phones have a plastic screen so they need to make sure not to overheat it.

                    The one OnePlus there with the 8+gen1 may have a low framge rate as the 8gen1, but at way lower power consumption regardless.

                      Anonymous, 25 Oct 2023Does 865 have X core? No. Rog 6 Pro with 8+g1 overhea... moreDid the 865 get consistent higher frame rates in games than the 8gen1 and 888 while having lower temps?

                      Yes


                      Also if you make a phone with a cooler, you obviously give the chip more tolerance in Wattage it's allowed to use.

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                        • 25 Oct 2023

                        Fa14bi, 25 Oct 2023Doesn't change that the 888 and 8gen1 where both overh... moreDoes 865 have X core? No.

                        Rog 6 Pro with 8+g1 overheated without the external fan.
                        Explain this.

                          Anonymous, 24 Oct 2023Exynos made out of Samsung Semicon? Keep dreaming .. ... moreDoesn't change that the 888 and 8gen1 where both overheating chipsets and both performed worse than the TSMC 865 because of their heavy throttling.

                            Shamrock Sean, 24 Oct 2023Don't know what the fuss is about, what's wrong w... moreBenchmarks is the strongpoint of the Tensor G3, in real life Performance, it is below an Snap 778G and also stutters more than an 765G (it loads things fast though). Also the onboard storage has below 250MB per sec write speed, but good read speeds.


                            Still, the write speed isn't even half of USF 2.1.

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                              • 25 Oct 2023

                              Anonymous, 25 Oct 2023Pathetic battery life, no SD card, audio jack, Google no mo... moreNobody asked for earphone jack and SD card now in 2023. Are u time traveller? welcome to 2023!

                                As expected.

                                Good cameras
                                Great display brightness
                                Mediocre battery lif(worse than pixel 7)
                                Bad performance for the money

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                                  • Anonymous
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                                  • 25 Oct 2023

                                  What a bland color. It looks like an unpainted dummy model.

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                                    • 25 Oct 2023

                                    oooooh. pixel 8 is still a beta phone, not even final ... Lame ... LOL

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                                      • 25 Oct 2023

                                      Shellyman Studios, 25 Oct 2023Geez! The Pixel 7 endurance rating is 96h, and the Pixel 8 ... moreI guess google made tensor just because of competition from apple, it's a beta soc and inferior to even snapdragon 7 series, at least they should have sticked with snapdragon 7 series if they can't go with 8 series to make more profit

                                      Magic eraser in google photos works faster on my s22 running 8 gen1 and that phone is really snappy even with all Samsung junkware, typing from my slugging pixel 8 pro

                                        I'm curious why this phone got such a relatively low battery endurance rating, especially when it's not even close to its last year's predecessor. I can only assume that it has to do with either the new 120Hz screen or the Android 14 OS, which is still in early builds with little software optimization.

                                        What impressed me the most, though, is the new SoC. It shows a much-needed improvement from the previous G2. Both CPU and GPU are on par with Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, and that's still a crazy fast SoC in 2023.

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