Google Pixel 8 Pro review
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- 27 Oct 2023
Terrible battery life in 8 series + missing SD card, audio jack. No need more garbage thanks.
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- Anonymous
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- 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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- jtafurth
- 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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- m1T
- 27 Oct 2023
Battery and its charging time are ridiculous, I am gonna wait for Oneplus and its 12 iteration
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- Anonymous
- gDf
- 27 Oct 2023
On my Pixel 7 Pro, the exif data shows which camera has been chosen because the Pixel 7 Pro and 8 Pro actually have five / six rear cameras in the 12 megapixel mode (Quad Bayer sensors give you two cameras in one camera). In low light, my 7 Pro doesn't use the 10x and 2x cameras (unless there are maybe a lot of light sources), but uses 5x and 1x + machine learning digital zoom (even when you use Night Sight), but this often leads to bad results and is very frustrating. Surprisingly, it seems that the 8 Pro now uses the 2x camera in low light conditions (though the sample images have a lot of light sources, too).
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- Anonymous
- 7sy
- 27 Oct 2023
Sohrab, 27 Oct 2023It falls significantly short when compared to the iPhone 15... moreYou'd hope so, here in aus the pro max cost $500 more than the p8p haha
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- 27 Oct 2023
Hemedans, 27 Oct 2023Where did I ignore it? My comment you quote end of it I sai... moreIt is exactly what I was saying.
GSMArena don't ignore active usage time, mind you, check the review again.
But it's because of poor standby 8 got this score.
Well, and if you think that battery drain can be fixed by software update - it depends, on G1 it's the modem, only time will tell what's the issue with G3 (I assume the same, but who knows - some reports are saying the cellular reception is "breddy good").
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- 27 Oct 2023
It falls significantly short when compared to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which boasts a remarkable 24 hours of battery life for web browsing. In contrast, the Pixel 8 Pro offers only 16 hours, which is considered subpar and not satisfactory
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- yat
- 27 Oct 2023
Anonymous, 27 Oct 2023I don't know what the Imx 766 is, but the Gn5 is just ... moreThe imx766 was one of the most used if not most used sensor of 2022 so weird you know the gn5 and NOT the imx 766 (literally in the zenfone 10 you mentioned).
Other phones/lines it features on are:- oppo find x5 series, asus RoG 7 series and 6 series, the realme gt2 series, the 1st gen nothing phone, redmi note 12 series, oneplus 10 series (including the R and T versions), the oneplus nord 2 series (including T variants), oneplus ace series, xiaomi 12 (and X variants), the honor magic 3 and 4 series, huawei mate 50 series, the samsung galaxy A54 (best selling samsung devices on the market?). Thats about half the devices using that sensor as atleast the main sensor.
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- 7sy
- 27 Oct 2023
Wow dxomark give the 8pro the best display on the market, 4th best all round camera performance, 8th place in speakers in the high end categories.. battery /performance we'll see haha.. surprised with some of these marks though
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- 27 Oct 2023
DP1963, 27 Oct 2023Too many negatives listed for a 4.3 out of 5 review. for the right person, it's 4.3/5
but personally I'd give it no more than 4.1
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- 3Yb
- 27 Oct 2023
Shamrock Sean, 27 Oct 2023Brightness doesn't affect performance that's reso... moreEven brightness effects by causing throttling.
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- Anonymous
- gJt
- 27 Oct 2023
Buy an iPhone for this money and thank me later.
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- Anonymous
- fwy
- 27 Oct 2023
seriously a thermometer onboard is considered a "pro"? next time attach a bottle opener to the frame
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- Anonymous
- nU2
- 27 Oct 2023
PanRT, 27 Oct 2023Why, OnePlus 11, Xiaomi 13T/Pro, Xiaomi 13 Ultra, all with ... moreThey don't have bad battery
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- Anonymous
- nU2
- 27 Oct 2023
Anonymous, 27 Oct 20232023 flagship with 2018 flagship battery performancePocophone F1 from 2018 had 94hr endurance rating.
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- 27 Oct 2023
Shamrock Sean, 27 Oct 2023Nothing to do with weather it's powerful or not it... moreStacking and processing at 50mp is 4 times more resource intensive than at 12.5mp. So, it has everything to do with whether it is powerful or not. Applying the same algorithm on 50mp as they did on 12.5mp may not be possible now.
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- Hemedans
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- 27 Oct 2023
thunderresistant, 27 Oct 2023Why ignoring total and especially standby in favor of activ... moreWhere did I ignore it? My comment you quote end of it I said they need to work on their standby, ofcourse it's bad, but ignoring good on screen score as battery life as whole is not good also it's not OK. Standby can be fixed with software update but those on screen won't get significant fix.
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- 27 Oct 2023
Stoon, 27 Oct 20231440p resolution = High battery consumption. 1080p is en... moreThe influence of resolution on battery life is really negligible. Refresh rate and brightness are the big shots.
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