Hi Pixel 8 and 8 pro users, how has your experience with the new line of phones been so far? I’m still rocking a pixel 6 pro, and don’t intend on upgrading this year; however, as a pixel nerd, I am curious about how the new phone is holding up? Has there been any noticeable improvements or compromises compared to your last device? Most importantly are you still enjoying it?
The good things you mentioned are great to hear! For some reason, the call quality somewhat lacked on my Pixel 5 and is just alright on my P6P.
Yeah being from AUS, I’m actually not too sure if I am missing some AI features. Which ones are you missing? Nonetheless, fingers crossed they reach all users sooner rather than later!
I am also the same with my phone’s battery struggling when it is using mobile data compared to wifi. I’m hoping for your sake that it is just an optimisation issue and that it gets fixed over time. Especially as Google had mentioned the P8 was meant to be a more efficient product.
I just came back from a children’s birthday party. Naturally, I made sure to charge the phone as much as possible on the drive to the indoor playground. I took and sent a sizable number of pictures and videos, and played some Spotify over the car system on the way home. Nothing else, not even navigation.
5.5h on mobile, 1.5h total SoT - the battery went from 92% to 29% during that time. This is a great “half-a-day” phone, but, sadly, useless for any significantly longer outings.
Most of the call-related AI features:
“Hold for Me” being the most painfully absent.
That call center menu navigation AI thing is missing (but that’s rarely supported even in the US).
No Google Duplex at all.
No improved Call Screen Assistant at all, it’s still that extremely robotic sounding, first generation one.
No “summarize this” feature for websites, either. That was one of the big, new, introductions.
Honestly, that’s pretty much half of the on-device AI features. The rest is the cloud-based photo magic stuff that isn’t run on the phone’s chip at all, that works and can be really cool (but is painfully slow and often quite buggy).
I don’t expect most of these to make it out of the US / to the EU anytime soon, and I’m willing to bet that I won’t see “Assistant with Bard” for a very, very long time.