Google Pixel 8 Pro review

26 October 2023


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This phone is the best garbage of the year.

Most of the AI features, which the Pixel specialises on, require an internet connection. Otherwise, it's an overpriced phone with poor performance.

Save your money. Galaxy S23+ would be a much better choice. If you don't need such an excellent camera, even the 'overrated' Nothing Phone 2 is a better and cheaper choice too.

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    • Anonymous
    • 7sy
    • 28 Oct 2023

    Anonymous, 27 Oct 202390h is terrible given price and that its 2023. Do you live... moreHeard of a type c to 3.5mm adaptor literally costs $5.. boom crisis over..keep hating, it's all good

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      • Anonymous
      • 7sy
      • 28 Oct 2023

      Anonymous, 27 Oct 202390h is terrible given price and that its 2023. Do you live... moreLol shall I repeat myself, you Geekbench number Nerds read what you wanna read lol... Again, Far from terrible battery life but whatever keep doing your thing.. hard to be critical when your bias from the beginning hey

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        • Anonymous
        • 3aw
        • 28 Oct 2023

        Apple's cap isn't 5 years as you say, the 6s was supported to 2021

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          • Anonymous
          • R5v
          • 28 Oct 2023

          Legend Z, 27 Oct 2023If my eye can't see this fantastic colors why should I care?Most people would care but it's really up to you if you don't. If you took a photo of a city at midnight but your mobile phone captured it like it was taken just a few minutes after sunset, resulting to a better photo overall with less clipped highlights, fewer crushed shadows and slightly more visible shadow details, which photo would you choose?

          If you took a photo of people on the beach under strong noon sun when there are harsh shadows and too much glare, but the photo ended up like the sun was partially blocked by a cloud resulting in softer shadows and a better looking photo capture, which photo would you choose, the 'true to the actual scene photo', or the 'similar to the actual scene if lighting conditions were better'?

          Why do photo studios spend so much on diffusers, flash and lighting equipment when on most everyday natural and indoor lighting situations (outside the studio) are actually harsh and your face wouldn't normally look exactly like the one captured by multiple angle, soft/diffused studio lighting? Do you understand what I'm trying to explain? Mobile photography is no longer about being 'true to the actual scene'. It's now moving towards capturing an image of the same scene as if lighting conditions were better. I'm not talking about making night like it was day, or making Chris Pratt look like Chris Evans, but rather, it's like making night, still night, but under slightly better ambient lighting. The Pixel phones do it right. Xiaomis and other Chinese branded phones tend to go overboard with HDR tonemapping resulting to night scenes that are more cartoony and less realistic. Iphones and Samsungs on the other hand just don't get the colors and shadow details as good as the Pixels (more noise, less consistent white balance and exposure, and oversharpening/color clipping).

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            • Anonymous
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            • 28 Oct 2023

            Looks like screen is Boe

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              • Anonymous
              • 0p}
              • 27 Oct 2023

              https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YAtJOX-lQew&t=318s

              Robot set to open apps on Pixel 8 Pro and Iphone 15 Pro Max.
              Iphone was 40 seconds faster than pixel.

              Way beyond ridiculous. Any phone with 8g2 (except samsung and xiaomi, their UIs need intel i9 gen 13 to run properly) would have won against iphone.

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                • Anonymous
                • nU2
                • 27 Oct 2023

                Anonymous, 27 Oct 2023Terrible battery life lol You actually read the review? I q... more90h is terrible given price and that its 2023.
                Do you live in 1800s that you don't want headphone jack?

                  Anonymous, 27 Oct 2023Wow! The Pixel 8 Pro photos are hyperreal. The HDR tonemap... moreIf my eye can't see this fantastic colors why should I care?

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                    • ysE
                    • 27 Oct 2023

                    Anonymous, 27 Oct 2023Terrible battery life in 8 series + missing SD card, audio ... moreAudio jack? Really? How archaic. I had a Pixel 8 Pro for 10 days. The camera takes amazing photos and I mean stellar. It ends there. Facial recognition hardly ever works and fingerprint reader is close second which then prompts the PIN. I don't have time to go through 3 security checks to unlock a phone every, single, time. Tensor 3 can't handle the load; it's that simple. Backing out of "X" (formerly Twitter) leaves the icon hanging for a couple seconds on the screen before it can ever clear it. Pixel 8 Pro: A+ for photography. That's where it ends. I have returned the phone.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • nMK
                      • 27 Oct 2023

                      the only positive thing is software support. Otherwise they are the iphones of android world ant it's not a compliment. Mediocre, overrated, ultra expensive phones. Google was the first to ban removable battery, fm radio, micro sd, audio jack, irda... Still they cost a fortune. Go figure

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                        • rXM
                        • 27 Oct 2023

                        Anonymous, 27 Oct 2023seriously a thermometer onboard is considered a "pro&q... morea condom pack is also offered in the pixel team box

                          DP1963, 27 Oct 2023Too many negatives listed for a 4.3 out of 5 review. Then you haven't read the pixel 8 pro hands-on. Reading it made you feel like the phone is a 2.5/5 max lmao

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                            • Anonymous
                            • q3R
                            • 27 Oct 2023

                            Anonymous, 27 Oct 2023Pocophone F1 from 2018 had 94hr endurance rating.Pocophone F1 - Smaller screen, LCD based, weaker CPU, no 5G. Yeah, very comparable device.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 7sy
                              • 27 Oct 2023

                              Anonymous, 27 Oct 2023Terrible battery life in 8 series + missing SD card, audio ... moreTerrible battery life lol You actually read the review? I quote 'but not quite as high as to challenge major competitors'
                              Far from terrible haha
                              People got over 3.5mm jacks years ago

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                                • Anonymous
                                • gDf
                                • 27 Oct 2023

                                Anonymous, 27 Oct 2023Wow! The Pixel 8 Pro photos are hyperreal. The HDR tonemap... more"Wow! The Pixel 8 Pro photos are hyperreal. The HDR tonemapping is just surreal. The shades and subtleties of the colors and luminance/shadow details captured are *REALLY* WAY more than what human eyes would see given the scene's harsh lighting conditions.
                                The photos 'resemble' the scenes captured even though they are not really 'true to the actual scene'. "

                                I don't know whether you have ever compared it while looking at the scene at the same time. I have a Pixel 7 Pro and the dynamic range is often lower than what my eyes see. There are often blown out highlights (not for my eyes), so I have to reduce the brightness and increase the shadows. And in extremely high dynamic range scenes, I often have to raise the shadows slider in order to make the shadows look like my eyes see them.

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                                  • 27 Oct 2023

                                  Anonymous, 27 Oct 2023Terrible battery life in 8 series + missing SD card, audio ... more2015 called....

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • xyJ
                                    • 27 Oct 2023

                                    Terrible battery life in 8 series + missing SD card, audio jack. No need more garbage thanks.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • R5v
                                      • 27 Oct 2023

                                      Wow! The Pixel 8 Pro photos are hyperreal. The HDR tonemapping is just surreal. The shades and subtleties of the colors and luminance/shadow details captured are *REALLY* WAY more than what human eyes would see given the scene's harsh lighting conditions.
                                      The photos 'resemble' the scenes captured even though they are not really 'true to the actual scene'. Rather, they are what we humans would see if our eyes were genetically engineered to see more color shades and more light in the dark, and distinguish more color hues and shadow gradation subtleties even at night. The fact is, the rods in our eyes dominate at night and for that reason, we usually don't see and distinguish as many shades of color at lower light levels than at daytime where the cones in our eyes are at their best acuity.
                                      The Pixel photos looked as if they were taken at better, less harsher lighting conditions. Whether you like your photos to be 'true to the actual scene' or 'similar to the scene if lighting conditions were improved', depends on you. Human eyes and brains are biased towards making perceived images clearer and making sense of unclear details, so for the majority, these 'hyperreal' Pixel 8 Pro photos are better even if they are not exactly 'true to the actual scene' captured. For as long as the colors are right and for as long as they look and resemble 'real life', accuracy to the actual scene captured doesn’t matter.
                                      This Pixel 'look', 'quality' or 'characteristic' in the photos it captures, is what makes Pixel phones, ahead in mobile photography. The latest iPhone and Samsung flagships really need to catch up on the latest Pixel phones. They are falling way behind in photography. And we’re not even talking about the AI photo features yet like ‘magic eraser’, ‘subject/object repositioning’, 'lighting/ambiance/background manipulator' and ‘head transplant’.

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                                        • d$A
                                        • 27 Oct 2023

                                        In your hands on GSMArena mentioned a serious lag in the pro normal usage, but that hasn't been addressed here. There are currently some issues with Android 14 and scrolling lag, specially affecting this phone.

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