The Pixel 8 Pro has a BIG problem.
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2024
- Google's Pixel series has a big problem that it needs to address soon as other smartphone makers have their answers to Google's best features. The Pixel 8 Pro 6 months later is a harder sell than ever before. Here's why.
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What is the "BIG problem" with the Pixel 8 Pro? I certainly did not hear one in this video.
its just clickbait for some extra views i assume
It is not a "King" of anything at the moment.
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For the price it underperforms in everything than Other devices that's what he is telling us.
With Google leasing its AI LLM to Samsung, the advantage of Google software is decreasing. So, with many cameras being good enough for most users, what is Google selling with the Pixel? Obviously, loyal fans like me just prefer the Pixel, but I have to agree, I would be happy with many alternatives and may even have a better experience.
There's a Big problem with this video.
Lol, harsh😂
Could not agree more!! The video is complaining about things that are simply a non issue... Pixel still has plenty of stuff that I will choose instead of One Plus or Samsung.
It is the hook.. 🪝
😂😂😂
true. its fake news from an idiot.
Google needs to bring the US only features like Call Screening to the rest of Google Pixel markets in the world! That's really what's missing if they want to stand out.
Exactly!! This is the very reason why I got my Pixel but region locked feature sucks.
While it would be good if they did, I imagine the reason they don’t is because those services are highly privacy invasive and can’t be allowed in many regions.
Idk if that’s true, but this is what comes to mind when people point out that these features aren’t everywhere.
I agree but in Australia I had call screening and people just hung up because the google voice sounds like a robot. I think it sounds better in America. Hold for me again companies hung up too. Great ideas but they fell flat for me. Magic eraser and best shot was pretty useless in real life uses. I now use an iPhone 15 pro max for work which pretty much means I’ve moved to iPhone. I’ve got my pixel 8 pro still here. Now playing and assistant voice typing are fantastic pixel advantages I miss but that’s pretty much it. I truly hope pixel does something good with the pixel 10 so I can come back to the fold
They even region locked 5G which is ridiculous as the hardware supports the networks.
Which phone is the king of the camera.
The fact that Samsung and Oneplus have "caught up" is a good thing in the phone space. It means that there is more competition which is always better for the consumer. The only issue I see with the pixel line is that Google has a bit of an issue with how to spread out the features as the hardware is not so much the focus compared to the snapdragon. The pixel 9 will be an iterative upgrade from the 8 and I think that people are over-hyping the little that is to come. Personally I have been waiting on the 9 as currently I'm on a 6 Pro with a custom rom and still pretty happy with it but ready for something new.
Which rom are you on?
@@chethaz Project Matrixx
I have a pixel 6pro and I am having issues where as mobile service or LTE constantly disconnects have you experienced this as well?@@coolpoete
Tensor is just a rebranded Exynos chip, so until TSMC starts making the tensor chip (Pixel 10) tensor will be underpowered.
Made by Samsung yes, but not a rebrand though. Based on it, but has a diferent architecture and NPU. For example, the first generation of the Tensor is between Exynos 990 ans 2100 due to the architecture configuration, which makes it different from either of them.
The competition isn't gonna wait for the Pixel 10 chip. They are also going to get better, so it will still be underpowered. Just not as bad compared to current pixels.
TSMC buzz word alert .
@@백묘 True, but still built on the Samsung 5/4nm processes, which were inferior with lower QC and yields. The Tensor underlying architecture is built on the same platform as Exynos, and there is a good reason Qualcomm sacked Samsung Fabs and went to TSMC. See the massive improvement from the S22U to S23U, almost tri-generational. We can expect that in 2025 when Google moves to TSMC.
@@andyH_England That's not the point, what you wrote is all facts, but I was just saying that it's not a rebrand. For example, redmi k40s and poco f4 is a rebrand, which is exactly same poduct with only different name, which is not the case for Exynos and Tensor.
Google absolutely made the right decision, especially with TSMC on board with the 10 series.
We’re can I grab that wallpaper?
Pixel or die for me. ive own every pixel and most of the nexus phones, and will continue to do so each year forward.
This!!
Same here ❤
Why
@@rinkashi101 it has never failed me unlike my work iPhone. Too many reasons and not a lot of space to write
Google is still ahead of every phone manufacturers in terms of AI, Samsung does have some appealing features on paper but their live translate is a downgrade compared to Pixel's. Also the 7 years of upgrade promise, Outside US Samsung doesn't give you monthly updates on time like Google does. While Oneplus:s 4 years of update promise is good, it is not an impressive feat compared to 7 years from Google (If they keep their promise). Google has always been a software company and comparing it's hardware to companies that have been building phones for decades felt a little unfair, yet they're catching up. All I'm trying to say is Google still offers one of the best and easy to use software experiences while still being hundreds of dollars cheaper than the flagship offering from Apple and Samsung.
7 yrs of updates is great, then again the better question is will their phones last for 7 yrs?
The battery, the issues of their phones with reception etc..
Samsung now rents Google AI and Google's LLM. So, they will be closer than ever as the year progresses.
@@A1stardantyping this from a p6: I had one time in almost 3 years where the battery disappointed me and that was with extreme temperature changes. Otherwise it can usually carry me through a day without being careful, and if I know that I will use it a lot I can activate the battery safer with 90+ percent and won't need to worry either.
Reception or overheating for me personally wasn't a problem either, ever.
But the main problem of Pixel phones is it is not available for most countries. That's my biggest turn-off.
I love my Pixel 8 Pro. It was slightly buggy when I first bought it, but updates have cured them and the battery on screen time, which I wasn't too impressed with at first, has also improved no end over the last few weeks. And obviously, the point and shoot camera is still superb.
I’m with you on the battery life. The battery life on my Pixel 8 is absolutely insane. It’s better than any phone I’ve had prior.
@@seth4321I'm about to buy a pixel 8 and this comment reassured me about me the battery life (btw I'm a light user I don't really play games I jus watch UA-cam videos and take some pictures here and there ) can I ask how much sot do you get on an average day please ?
@@switex8286 I’m also a light user. Mostly web browsing/Googling and UA-cam. I don’t use social media. I do occasionally use GPS navigation. In my day to day life, the Pixel 8 is a two day phone for me. I get, on average, about six hours of screen on time between charges. But I’ve gotten up to 7 and 8 hours before. I recently went on a trip that involved heavy Googling/navigation and I never ran out the battery before I got to the hotel.
The one time the battery life did seem to falter was on an out-of-country trip a few months ago. Different trip than the one mentioned in the previous paragraph. I used Google Maps for hours a day and took a ton of photos. I’m talking like 100 photos and videos a day or more. I’d get like 4 hours of screen on time. Truly bad. But, it’s possible that any phone would have gotten bad battery in that scenario. It was probably the most taxing real-world use case for a phone. The camera uses a ton of battery.
I don’t want to scare you off. I’m just letting you know the good and the bad. I hope this has been helpful for you. Good thing is, there’s a two week return policy if you don’t like it (or a month in other countries I think). Please let me know if I can answer anything else for you.
Do you use the pill navigation by any chance?
@@seth4321I just bought the Pixel 8 and the battery life seems quite disappointing. Does it improve after the first days of usage?
Tensor chip in mine is garbage. LTE and WiFi reception drop on a regular basis. Extremely frustrating.
exyons crappy Modem , do more research before buy
There is no Tensor chip bro. It's Exynos google not making or designing any chip. The reason your phone is garbage is because it has an Exynos cpu. All pixel phones are trash!
I Had a Samsung Galaxy A5 in 2017-18 with Exynos SOC. I was a lot of the time offline because of that shitty chipset. Never again!
@@Handynutzer exyons variants are different and the lower one are actually good but flagship exyons it's crap
@@cristianJoker2512 A5 was not a flagship phone.
Ive had my p8p since launch date and will be keeping it for a cool minute its great and does everything i need it to do .
Hey can someone please tell me what is the game at the beginning with the car?
sacrificing the Snapdragon was the most stupid move that Google made.
I dont think so, using samsung Exynos to manifacture their own chip is the one.
@@V25NguyenMaybe they should've asked apple
@@V25Nguyen Exynos can’t even get their own chips right
Not at all. Long term goal is to make their own. Qualcomm is garbage and has hamstrung Android with awful policies. If Google never left Qualcomm we'd be stuck with 2 year updates only.
@@MegaCynar how can that be true if Samsung offers 7 years of support on their latest Snapdragon phones?
Pixel still has a major advantage just by running stock Android
Just picked up the pixel pro 8 for £729. No current flagship phone can match that price and offer such a comprehensive set of features
How is the performance
A video for the sake of making a video only .. nothing substantial... competition will catch up and that's pretty much common because no brand lives under the cave... competition is always good for the end consumers...AI features will be democratized too like everything else.. and as for photos Samsung and OnePlus needs a lot of catching up to do to reach pixel level
Currently using the galaxy s22 ultra and it is a powerhouse and something i can always rely on. Doesn't matter what i put it through it just handles it and the battery life is still very good as a 2.5yo flagship. But the newer software updates and changes , specially the removal of features from the settings and the goodlock app have really been a dealer breaker as i used them heavily to make it the phone my own.
Now that i see it, i dont really like the ui anymore and it's just more complicated.
I'm thinking of upgrading from 22u to this 8pro.
Will i face major performance issues? Or how will the bettery hold up?
Will i miss that 1440p screen alot or , this screen is just as good too?
My main concern about pixel phones nowadays it their performance. Idk how will that g3 stack up against my oc sd 8 gen 1.
G3 is the same performance-wise as the 8+gen1 ( I had a zenfone 9 before), it gets a little bit hot like the gen1, and it's battery is good, not great but you shouldn't have to charge it twice a day for example
The screen is very good and the same resolution
Don't think of it as an upgrade, you would do a sidegrade at most hardware wise
Question for anyone: ever since the past 3 or so updates, have you noticed any glitchy behavior with the Bluetooth of the pixel 8 and especially pro? My pro Bluetooth feature has been acting weird lately. Not accepting my different Bluetooth earbuds as fast as it used to. Now I have to unpair and then pair them sometimes when I want to use them.
Same issue with my old samsung a33 and s21fe
What is the problem I don't understand what do you mean??????
I would love Pixel to just add fast charging, that would seal the deal for me. Currently sitting on Motorola because it has "clean" enough UI and fast charging 😅.
Yeah the slow charging speeds deter me
Something I do not understand as my P8 Pro is always above 50% when I go to bed and then I use Adaptive Charging to get it to 100% when I wake up by setting the alarm 2 hours ahead. No problem at all!
One of my favorite pixel features is the Virtual Assistant to answer my phone for me. It's helped me sooooo much for screening my calls.
I was expecting to hear about the laggy scrolling experience but sadly that didn't get covered in this Big problem video
we have the 6 Pro and the 8 Pro and both drop cell signal very easy and both don't like to pick up the cell signal again. Is it just my bad luck or does this happen all pixel phones?
This has been discussed a lot on reddit. No it's not a you issue
@@A1stardan Is their a fix?
This is a problem for everyone and there is not a fix other than purchasing a different phone unfortunately.
@@seapanda-117 bummer, thanks.
I bought this phone in Feb and was originally disappointed with the network heat and poor battery life.. but a software update or two has seemingly sorted this. Very happy with it now. Anyone else noticed recent improvements too?
Love my Pixel 8 Pro. I tried a Samsung S24 and the UI was confusing compared to Pixel.
I only have 1 problem. I don't get how Google Photos works. I used to have a Samsung and when I wanted to clean up some storage, I just deleted some photos. However I kept them in the cloud. Since Google photos is the gallery app for Google, is there any way that I can delete photos from the phone but still keep some of them on the Google photos Cloud? Because every time, I delete sth in the folder folder in Google photos, it is automatically deleted from the cloud.
Inside Google photos look for an option to “clean up” your device. It will remove the photos from local storage and keep them only in the cloud. If you select a photo and it shows a cloud icon with an upwards arrow in it, then that photo is not in the cloud yet.
@@seapanda-117 thank you🙏🙏
@@seapanda-117 but is there a way to delete or keep only some photos? I can't imagine that someone HAS TO delete ALL photos. Otherwise I'm switching back to Samsung😂😂
7:20 lol why did you use air quotes :D
I thought the problem was the stock Pixel launcher having a immovable Search Bar stamped on its home screen; while making ads poking fun at apple for the lack of customization.
not really that big of a issue in my opinion
@@artyom5191The google support forum would beg to differ.
At least unlike iphone you can change the default launcher and install any launcher you like, like nova or microsoft launcher or one from the other thousands on the playstore
@@RickSanchez-ig6pyThese features could be added in a day; we are missing simple windows XP notepad level features....while toting AI. They made smart select...when you can't even select/copy/paste in google messages. Its a Joke.
@@RickSanchez-ig6py Until they break gestures, crash, or sell your data...ty NOVA.
Where are the other guys?!
Apparently battery life is bad due to it being drained out by the using mobile data and signal is also bad, any truth to this?
I dont experience any issues with mine honestly. Ofc i'd like an 8 gen 3 in here for additional speed but it isnt slow or anything
I can't seem to figure out the premise of this video. Why is it an inherent unique problem to Google that they are being caught up in the areas described? You can find every manufacture being caught up by every other manufacture in all sorts of different ways - thats how competition works.
I made the jump from oneplus to pixel 8 pro and I honestly regret it. I got the phone thinking the Ai features would be exclusive to the pixel and now I see things like circle to search and magic editor going free to all Android users. The phone was also expensive. What I would at least like from Google would be more customization to the pixel ui. I miss the fingerprint animations and extra features oneplus had. I also have had a few bugs that having been a pain to deal with since March update like the navigation pill bar showing up on the side of my screen instead of the bottom. I think Google needs to polish alot still in order to be worth it. I also think the tensor chip is really weak compared to the snapdragon especially in mobile gaming.
Man why there's always a call issue?
I'll be staying with the Pixel series vs Samsung for the foreseeable future.
1) Samsung adding duplicates of Android/Google features on top of the existing software is just a waste of space and performance.
2) Samsung's "UI" is complete crap.
3) Any real performance difference doesn't make much difference in day to day usage. All high end phones are more than powerful enough.
4) Google's Pixel is the only phone that has the camera in a correct orientation. Laying your phone down and having it tilt due to off-center camera's is stupid.
Agree or disagree, all these top tier phones are more than anyone needs so you can go with whatever you like.
I think you've never used OneUI properly. It is the best android out there and provides more stable and regular updates than the creator of android google itself. Not to mention the about the stupid bugs that occur after updating a pixel phone. Mkbhd had made a whole video about this. OneUI imo is the most feature rich and practical UI out there especially with secure folder and app cloning. Also don't forget the super useful Bixby routines. I'm a college student and Bixby routine does wonders. For example, I set up a routine where my phone automatically goes silent mode as soon as I enter lecture building or library. There are many other countless features and customizations that no other UI offers. For me, it's impossible to leave OneUI
Also, where I live, in India pixel phones are complete garbage cuz they're super expensive for what they offer. It is above 1000$ and service over here is crap. Also as India mostly has tropical weather, the chappy tensor chips always drain a lot and overheat. The 5g reception is horrible. It's the same problem with all chipsets made in samsung Foundry including their exynos. Simply put, Snapdragon is much better and until google uses sdg or improves their exynos, these phones have nothing good in them except their cameras with software magic. Also the pixels have pathetically under speced cameras for the price, in contrast chinese alternatives offer superior camera hardware like the xiaomi 14or oneplus 12 or oppo find
@@06ek I've used OnePlus and like them. Oppo and Xaiomi are great too. Pixels work great in the USA. For me a phone has to have an unmolested UI as close to stock android as possible, and a flat screen (no curved edges). Everything else is negotiable.
@@06ekI am from India too and when I bought a pixel device it had issues right out of the box and with every update it was getting worse. Heating, performance throttle, below average battery, worst customer support, very less to no resell value you name it Pixel has it all.
Unless these issues are fixed I am not even thinking of buying one. You will only see Pixel phones in the hand of people who are rich or don't know what other brands has to offer or don't know how bad the pixel phones are.
No wonder OnePlus, Xiaomi, and Samsung are rulling Indian market. Pixel can never beat such competition from other brands.
They've just released an update for it and the audio delay when playing any media (UA-cam netflix etc) went from pretty bad (about a half a second out) to flat out unacceptable (3-4 seconds)
Luke Shaw?
Timestamps please !
Moved from P7P to iPhone 14 PM. Yes, it’s a boring phone but battery, grunt and less bugs make up for a slight downgrade on camera quality.
I tried to watch the whole video but I just couldnt stand the music playing constantly. Whoever told you that was a good idea lied. Turn off the background music. Its ridiculous.
If I could find a good UK price for the Oppo Find 7 Ultra, obviously I would go for that, or, of course, the Vivo X100 Pro, they seem to be several rungs above the competition for camera, maybe even the Xiaomi 14 Ultra but that I watched a long side by side video with the 14 Ultra against the Pixel and was astonished to see the Pixel more or less held its own in a lot of shots and in some was arguably better (yay computational photography holding it's own, kind of, against larger sensor size).
I think Google need to reduce the price of the 8 and the 8 Pro, though, because they are being left out of so many people's shortlists because of general performance and videographers, etc, are looking for improved processor grunt to cope with Motioncam, etc, to avoid dropped frames.
It's funny, it's feels like it has been around for years, for some reason!
You buy it for CAMERAS still, Video Boost it is unmatched by any competitor including Iphone and Samsung.
Also as a support technician, I think its translate features like instant translate within Whatsapp (both ways) are unmatched. You see foreign customers words in your language, and what you type and you post it in his language.
i trust in tensor, imagine how optimize exclussively for pixel it can make like iphone
The problem for me is just the control center, it's not my taste and the Google photo application is dark and the settings, the home screen and lock are so beautiful. Next to
Not to mention Google's shitty front facing cameras
Great video, hope Google takes notes. it's always good to keep these big companies feets on the fire
One plus "is catching up"? Wtf are you smoking?
Basically about to unsubscribe
I love Google, I've had nexus 5 and 6 and pixel 1,2 and 4xl. They are great phones, but I've also had the OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 9 pro. My last phone was the 9 pro and its 3 years old and it's just as snappy and fast with anything as my pixel 8 pro.
I agree OnePlus is way ahead of Pixel
One Plus had fantastic phones until the OP8. Then they had a dip but since the last model they are on a good track.
No. They're better, subscribing to the channel.
The OnePlus 12 takes pretty good pictures now and maybe my pixelate takes better but it's not the gigantic difference it once was and the OnePlus 12 has great battery life The modems grade the screen is great The speakers are awesome and so I understand you may be a pixel lover and I have one and I really like it too but the OnePlus 12 has caught up in many ways and it's surpasses the pixel in many ways.
I have a pixel 8 Pro and just picked up the OnePlus 12 based off of raving reviews. I really like the OnePlus, but I've been getting terrible battery life compared to the pixel. I think Google has done a lot with software updates in the past year, at least in that department.
I had the Pixel 8 Pro from launch and absolutely love it. The people complaining about the Tensor performance just baffles me... A raw performance is nothing if your software is shit or bloated.
I dontind tensor but for much less. Pixel 8 at 499 was a great buy. I am happy with it, as it has all I need.
Hoping it lasts a few years.
thanks for all your work!
No problem with Tensor. Still huge problems missing notifications. That's the real issue!
I think Google is doing what Apple is doing with the long term plan for in-house silicon.
Imo, the best thing with the pixel is the camera and the very clean software (no bloat). The pixel is only going to get better with the rumours of full custom silicon with Pixel 10.
At the end of the day, I still prefer the pixel over the Samsung. The ease of use and clean UI makes it such a joy to use daily.
As a non biased , non pixel 8 pro fan boy and owner , certainly the hardware is ok , but in some areas it is a tad behind other brands , , my reason for buying the 8 pro in the first place was the photo editing software which i think is a bit better than other brands.
General impressions of the phone .....
A good percentage of the time it is very snappy in day to day operations, and i like that.
There are occasions however where you can see clearly it just doesn't have the horsepower of some other brand phones.
For example, when the pixel has to upload photos to google and have them processed which takes time, where other brand phones can do the same on device in a quarter of the time.
Fortunately I'm not taking pics every day , but just saying.
Another area i think they could improve the hardware, the finger print sensor and the face id .
On my unit , the finger print sensor is very lethargic and inconsistent only working when it feels like it, face id sometimes is quiet good when the conditions and light is adequate , in poor light it is not good , in darkness it is utterly useless.
And this has made me enable the pin pattern which a lot of the time i end up using.
Another observation on the face id sensor, it appears to not have the same field of view as my iphone face ID which just works like a beauty 99.9999% of the time.
I hate the keyboard on the pixel 8 pro , i have large ish hands and fingers , it just feels awful to use , and to add to that , error correction seems to suck , also , on my galaxy note and iPhone keyboards , both have the track pad function on to the keyboard that works well with the iphone being the tops in ooeration .
As you mentioned the pixel pics are often very good , but often about on par wi the h other brand camer as s , and some areas like low light when the camera is on auto , white balance is just piss poor.
I like the spam detection on the pixel , it has a nice screen and decent speakers( not the best on the market though).
I think it's still a pretty good phone despite its eeak areas , if i had to only make one choice I'd still pick the big iPhone, but Google is on the right track imo , , , the flat screen is nice and this is the first time a Google phone has been in my hand since the Nexus 6P.
I had to choose between 4 compact phones.
iPhone 14 - i don't like iOS, currently using 12 mini and not a big fan.
Zenfone 10 - 2 years of updates, bruh
Samsung S24 - doesn't have goddamn macro mode
Pixel 8 - the best candidate so far, just lack of optical zoom hurts but still, I prefer to have a macro mode.
Is there anything else to consider?
Oneplus 12
@@Salty_Biscuitz88 I said compact
I want that software
As a pixel owner myself for the last few generations, I could’ve agree more that’s what I will say if someone ask me today about pixel and we all are desperate for a change in power performance. I just hope that Google will see this review/video it’s important for them to know the real feedback from us the users.
I literally have no issues with Pixel idk what the purpose of this video really is but I came from a Pixel 5 that I can still use today but I loved the Pixel 8 Pro slickness in its design. I also mainly love exclusiveness that only a Pixel will give you, I feel like special holding this phone iphone & Samsung users lol
I bought the Pixel 8 Pro for the Gemini Nano AI and they haven't talked much about it since it's release
Only issue is the bad signal i could careless about the CPU
The big issue with Google's 7 years of os updates policy is the inferior hardware, in comparison to s24 series which offer the same years, and the lack of optimization, in comparison to Apple who too offers a lot of years of os updates, which can be fixed
Biggest problem with Pixel 8 pro is that it overheats. In fact most pixel phones are just very warm all the time.
Tbh i don't really care anymore about raw performance, sure there are phones in this price range that are faster but right now on the Android side of things i think the pixel 8 pro especially with the video boost feature is the best camera experience rn period. Also i think the difference in photo & video quality is actually quite big compared to the OnePlus, sure not as much as "the old days" so to speak but that's where we at right now. And for me the pixel camera makes that suttle difference between "almost dslr like" & "this is definitely shot on a phone" kind of quality
Call screening is a very useful feature. Voice to text isn't the best. My gf thinks that i'm having a stroke when i use it. I think Google's AI speaks english as a third language.
Every year i'm waiting new pixel since pixel 4 XL and every year the same feedback about Pixel, sometimes i feel that there is no people in their team who is able to improve the product, may be they want but they cant, no professionals in the team (Battery + Video + Wifi disconnecting + 3/4G issues especially abroad and some times photos are the issues that are not solved for a years)
Is the problem with the Pixel phone only because of the chip? 🤔
I wish google would go back to using anapdragon chips. Tensor chips always suck.
Pixel is still the best my friend pure stock android team pixel all the way from one pixel to the next 💪
I was team Nokia until HMD dropped the ball on PureView. Now I'm considering moving to Pixel for a phone with a great camera (and no bloatware).
For the moment he's the king of IA on smartphones
I sold my Pixel 7 for S23 due to heating issues and low network strengths
Yeah I think you make good points as before when I had my pixel 3A it was way ahead of the competition but now with my pixel 8 and my OnePlus 12 there pretty close honestly but my OnePlus has much better battery life much better modem doesn't get hot at all and so the pixels are good foam but it's no longer crushing the competition in any area really and I've had a lot of pixel phones so I'm not a pixel hater but yeah seems like most phones are pretty similar anymore
There is a bigger problem with Android Police, they keep promoting and praising Apple products and bashing Google products..
i mean at retail price the s23 is king, but i got my pixel 8 pro at $450 with 3 months of previous use and it was a steal price wise and i think for the price its sick but for £1000 i wouldnt buy it.
I think above all else, for me personally and I'm sure many other Pixel loyalists would agree, is the Pixel experience whcih in some ways is easy to quantify and more subjective in others. The Call Screen features for me, the best AOD of any phone on the market, the text to speech speed and accuracy, the haptics, these features don't get talked about or praised enough, instead tech reviewers focus on the obvious things like cameras and general performance which for me has never been lacking from fhe Pixel 6 then 7 Pro and now 8 Pro.
Google doing their own thing though with chipsets, I'm sure will see thr fruits of that more especially next year as Google will be designing it from top to bottom and likely using TSMC's 3nm process so we could see that pay off more.
Now tensor was never made to be a power house it was made for efficiency if you want gaming there are gaming phones that will fit your needs and control overheating if you want pure power of photo and video editing use a computer you just can’t match what a computer can do with a phone the pixil excels on what it was designed to do be a communication device and make some of those communication things easier with ai and be efficient
I bet it doesn't.
I switch back and forth between my Pixel 8 Pro and OnePlus 12. I really like both. I like the overall UI experience on Pixel better but I enjoy the OnePlus 12 a lot also.
Uhh i dont get this video?? lol
Does Oneplus have April Security update yet??
I'm pretty sure OnePlus stated that they do bi-monthly updates so that could be the reason but I think his point was that Google is not way ahead in the photo department anymore or in the AI department anymore and because they're hardware is definitely lacking as I have a pixel 8 and I also have a OnePlus 12 and the OnePlus is way ahead in the battery department and the modem with connectivity so I think that's his point
Price, price, price! With the Pixel 8 Pro you get a great phone that does everything well for a lot less money that the Samsung and Apple options. I bought mine a few weeks ago for $809 with 256 GB ($749 with 128 GB), which is hundreds less than the phones you say have "caught up". What's not to like?
I think a lot of what drives people away from pixel is how critical of it its users are. It is a great phone. It does have weaknesses but its a solid phone and when they go on sale they're a great buy
No one talks about this:
The biggest issue with AI phones is the lack of future software updates. If new generation features, not hardware-related, are not added to my Pixel 8, it becomes a major deterrent for purchasing a new one. This is where the limitations of software AI phones become evident.
Honestly the biggest problem with it is that it's just not worth the hefty premium over the regular Pixel 8 for 99% of users and the Pixel 8 itself is not worth the premium over the 7A for 95% of users. The user experience is much the same between all 3 for the overwhelming majority of things people use phones for.
Unless you need the bigger display, the AI features or more than 128GB it makes more sense to get the 7A for $350 and if you want a premium device and/or more storage it makes sense more sense to get the regular Pixel 8 for $550-600. Getting a telephoto lens, bigger display and a "pro" camera shooting mode pretty much no one is going to use is not worth an additional $250 for the overwhelming majority of people and I say that as a tech enthusiast.
I agree with him, google is slipping in the areas that made it better for some, but the "Big problem" was too click baity
I mostly buy the pixels for the unadulterated Android experience. I was a huge fan of Samsung until the note 9. At that point I switched because I absolutely hated their software and bloatware. I've had pixels ever since... The unlocked bootloader was a huge draw as well
I tried to switch to the Oneplus 12, and I absolutely hated it. It's tough to articulate why, but I ALWAYS come back to a pixel. The design language, user interface, simplicity. Samsung's duplication of apps and UI/design kills that for me, too.
lol
Those AI Pixel features are already on other phones through the Google Photos app. You just have to pay the Google subscription to use them.
It's been two months using Pixel 8 pro
The heating issue is still same
*Especially while charging
*Multitasking
*While using Camera
*While recording video (extreme heat)
Video quality is not upto the mark
Autofocus takes much time* in both photo and video shoot
Camera photo quality is good at outdoor with good amount of light
After sunset photos? Thumbs down (disappointing)
It doesn't actually focus while video recording especially over 1x zoom
I still wonder being named as a great camera phone ! Pixel lacks in many features and for not working on camera!
The camera menu (manual mode settings are hidden and not user friendly yet)
Sound quality: Good
Screen/display: Good
just buy s24. im pixel user too. buat after use s24 pixel look shit
Pixel has the cleanest form of android no bloatware unlike other android devices
My wife got my pixel 8 pro when I upgraded to the s24 ultra. But let's just say I had to get it back after 1 month. That's all I'm saying cause everyone is different and you believe whatever you want. Cheers
Tbh the only reason I'm looking at the 8 pro is to use graphene OS on it.
Bruh pixel has sooo many pixel exclusive feature that still no phone has like now playing and gemini nano on device
The tensor chip is the major problem.
Pixel 8 glitchiness when scrolling is more serious issue
I wouldn't buy any other phone. Apple? Nice, but walled garden. Everyone else? I just can't deal with the scrappy software and poor support. The Pixel 8 Pro is an excellent all round package.
King of the UI and smoothness, that's for sure...
Police, Hello !
The Samsung phones I got frustrated with cause now they want to push ads not something I’m fond of the one plus is a good phone but I think overall package of the pixil 8 pro is still slightly better
Pretty basic review. Doesn't mention that tensor is really just a customized exynos soc with their modem and that the AI features powering Samsung are coming from Google. Overall a pretty basic review offering no value.
Google wil use their own designed tensor chip, instead of the exynos based one, for the pixel 10