Pixel 8 Pro

I bought a Moaan Plus to see if it would work for me - basically, is a phone-sized eInk ebook reader something I'd keep using? [...] Although it's just slightly smaller than my Pixel 8 Pro, it feels close to weightless. [...] Battery life is fine - given how I use it, I drop it on a charger for a few minutes each day and it never goes flat. No idea how many days the battery would last if I didn't do that, but I don't use it the same way as I use my 7" ebook reader so it's not a concern. Similarly although it's notionally an Android tablet, I don't think it would work as a replacement for a typical tablet or phone. FWIW, I currently have 700+ apps installed on my Pixel 8 Pro, and just 6 on the Moaan Plus: - F-Droid (essentially a replacement for the Google Play store) - KOReader, which meets all my reading needs in combination with Calibre on laptop and Wallabag - Koofr, so I can access all my ebooks whenever I can sync via an Internet connection - Markor, for capturing notes in Markdown - DuckDuckGo, because eventually I'll need a browser at some point - Simple Keyboard, to replace the supplied Chinese keyboard app which is useless to me Downsides of the device: - it's Android 11, which may or may not be a concern for you (given how I use it, it's not a concern for me) - no Google Play, so you're going to have to install software from somewhere else. [...]

[...] Dropped my Pixel 8 pro into the toilet and the water resistance failed. My phone has completely shorted out and won't power on after letting it dry out for 8 hours. Short of some kind of miracle happening, I've just lost two years of photos with no backup -- No ricky pics for a bit 😿

[...] My phone, for its part, would complain about a corrupted filesystem, or couldn't access files, immediately after I replaced the sdcard in its slot. [...] My Pixel 8 Pro doesn't even have a slot for it. [...]

I have a Pixel 8 pro, last year I went to NYC with a friend who had an iPhone. [...] I'm sorry to say, but when it comes to photos and videos I think the iphone is now much better than the pixel phones. [...]

[...] I’ve had a Pixel 8 Pro and was considering the upcoming 11. [...] Especially if I also switch my higher quality camera image needs to a real camera. [...]

[...] I had to set my phone screen to stay on for 30 minutes and then leave the web browser open without touching it. [...] I'm on a pixel 8 pro with grapheneos. [...] I don't think it runs out of ram, the system is just too trigger happy. The battery still doesn't last all day anyway.

[...] They had a wide variety of features and build quality. Some were cheap but some, like the one I chose, felt quite premium, had all the latest features (in some cases better than the Pixel), etc. It eventually got replaced by a Pixel 8 Pro but I would try it again. [...] There also seems to be this weird anti-China sentiment that appears whenever these phones come up and I think it'd be a more interesting discussion if we focused on the hardware/software instead of country of origin (not saying that that's the case here, it's just been my experience in the past).

I recently put my backup strategy to the test upgrading from Lineageos 20/Android 13 on a Oneplus 8pro to Lineageos 21/Android 14 on a Pixel 8pro, so can claim it works - mostly. [...] (Business Calendar is my preferred calendar app currently - although I believe they may have switched to a subscription model since I bought it.) Messages and call logs are backed up by Swift Backup (more on that below). [...] I use Foldersync to do a two-way sync of photos (the DCIM folder, and other photo folders) between my phone and the NAS via SFTP, when on the home wifi. [...] Unfortunately it appears to no longer be maintained as the last update in the Play store was 2019 and it definitely does not work with Android 13 and later. [...] The backup files for all three are sent to my NAS via Foldersync just like photos. [...]

And there is still no BLE replacement for Garmin "Tempe" sensor: no ultra-small rugged temperature sensor on the market (or I cannot find one! [...] My old Xiaomi Mi A1 supported ANT+ till some major update, my next phone (Samsung A72) didn't support it from the beginning, my current Pixel 8 Pro doesn't support it too. [...]

I'm using stock Android, Pixel 8 Pro. [...] Here you can edit the text and save it, updating the value in the clipboard. [...]

Does the launcher still steal an enormous amount of screen space at the top of the home screen in order to display the date? [...] Though seriously, just bought a pixel 8 pro for the camera as my cheap Samsung whatever camera took aeons to focus and had garbage image quality. [...] Though what do you expect from company where your work performance is based on feature visibility meaning useless feature creep is all that matters instead of a quality user experience. [...]

[...] I own a Pixel 8 Pro and it is without a doubt the worst phone I have owned in at least a decade. The amount of bugs for such an expensive product is mind boggling. One of main features is the camera but I've found myself taking far fewer photos with the phone than I expected I would, mainly because the camera UX just kind of sucks in a 100 small to medium ways that add up to an unpleasant experience. Just for example: you need to reenable the manual focus slider after ever picture, focus peaking is flawed and impossible to disable, there's a very noticeable lag with the telephoto mode when adjusting the camera, setting are buried in several different menus, and more. [...]

[...] I bought Pixel 8 Pro when it came out, after I had Samsung (never was into iPhone, my wife has those though). [...]

Last year I bought the Pixel 8 Pro and I am quite happy with it. The 5x zoom lens is a game changer for me, and the rest of the phone works quite well also. [...] It broke. I got a warranty replacement. It just broke. [...]

Maybe I just expect too much battery life, but I find that I get quite low or even run out when I limit charging to 80%. My feeling is that the coulomb counting on the Pixel 8 Pro is just not very accurate, so the phone thinks it's at 80%, but is really at 60% or 40%. [...] I suppose rationally I should just charge to 100% rather than take a medicine that causes the same side effect as the disease its meant to treat, but I'm not that rational.

Well, for one I do a lot of Photography with my phone because I enjoy the flexibility and portability of it. I do have a good camera but when you're out and about its still too big for my liking. Most importantly, phones now a days come with a roughly 100mm equivalent and thats kind of my favorite lens for street photography (weird, I know, I enjoy taking close up photos of buildings, signs, cars). Another reason why i like phone photography is how quickly i can share my pictures with the people i care. I don't really care for posting my photos on social media that much I want to send good photos of my travel/life to my friends through chatrooms. So a good camera on a phone is essential to me. Particularly a good telephoto and a good main camera (so like 30-100mm). [...] Of course, I enjoy side loading apps and so as of now I've been relatively happy with something like the pixel 8 pro that I've had for a while. [...]

[...] Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive, Maps, Keep, Photos, YouTube, FitBit, Android. [...] It's a great replacement for my main use case of Docs / Keep which is just a dumping ground for ideas. For Google Photos, I now self-host Immich in Hetzner on a VPS with a 1TB storage box mounted via SSHFS. [...] It took a few days to use Google Takeout + immich-go to upload all the photos (300GB of data) but it's working really well now. [...] Android I think I'll be stuck on - I have a Pixel 8 Pro that technically supports Graphene but there are too many trade-offs there. Next time I need a new phone I'll take a serious look at Fairphone but I think the Pixel 8 Pro should last a few more years. [...] I have yet to find a suitable replacement for Google Maps - OpenStreetMap is still really hard to use and gives bad directions.

[...] It gets hotter quicker when doing more demanding tasks, battery drains faster if network conditions are not perfect, etc. We've been having some warm weather (30ºC) around here and the other day my Pixel 8 Pro started warning me about the phone being too hot when I tried to record a video. [...]

[...] Android Chrome with touch input (Pixel 8 Pro).

[...] I can plug in the charger or any peripheral and have peace of mind, knowing that the connection is secure. My last two smartphones also use USB-C for charging/peripherals. My Pixel 8 Pro lacks a headphone jack. [...] On the telephone, my family complained of the mic cutting out. [...]

That sounds implausible. [...] A Faraday cage is an attenuator, which multiplicatively decreases signal strength by some constant It's not constant at all. [...] (at least within a similar frequency band, which Bluetooth and 5G can be considered to be). [...] the received strength of both a reasonably close cell tower and a nearby Bluetooth transmitter would be pretty similar No, they wouldn't. On my Pixel 8 Pro right now I'm seeing -93dBm from a tower about half a mile down the road (700MHz LTE), and -40dBm from the BLE radio in the HVAC controller on the wall of this room, about 8 or 10 feet away. [...] If I put my phone in the box, it attenuates the LTE downlink from down the street to well below the thermal noise floor. It cannot do the same for BLE; my phone can still talk to the HVAC controller from inside.

Huawei as well. Used to have a P30 Pro. It felt like a true downgrade when I bought a Pixel 8 Pro two years ago and it had no desktop mode and a worse camera to boot.

This year I've been waiting a year for the summarize AI to (not) make it to my Google Pixel 8 Pro. It should be known that everyone outside of the US get a different product than what is advertised online and reviewed on YouTube.

I had to replace my old phone a few months back and I went with a used Pixel 8 pro from Backmarket specifically so I could try GrapheneOS. I'll never go back if I can help it. I love this OS.

[...] I used it for 5 years before I got a Samsung Galaxy S2. [...] I used the One Plus 5 for 7 years until I replaced it with a Pixel 8 Pro. [...]

I've been using the older (non-stand) version for a few years now and it's worked great. Saves my pinky from having to support my big honkin' Pixel 8 Pro and makes it much easier for one-handed use

I've been using Graphene on a Pixel 8 Pro for about a year and a half. I'm comfortable with tech but not a big-time geek. [...]

Interesting, I also have a pixel 8 pro, and my photos often look better to me than my friend's iPhone. Not sure what phone he has though, it might be an older one (though P8Pro isn't exactly bleeding edge anymore either).

I use it on my Pixel 8 Pro too It's a toggle in Developer options, Local Desktop.

I used a different app on a Pixel 8 Pro and it worked well. It uses the same principle.

Could be model-specific. I got the update by doing that manually on my Pixel 8 Pro, that also happens to be on the beta track so there are a few confounders. But that is the way to get the latest software that is waiting to be released to your phone, without waiting.

I still have an old Anker 20,000 mAh power bank that works fine. Might not have the same charge ability as it once had but I can still get 2-3 charges out of it for a Pixel 8 Pro. Has 4 LED's to display charge level and a button that flashes them when you want to check status. I bought a UGREEN bank on a recommendation and it was a buggy mess. It discharged more than it should when charging and when plugged in it rapidly charged to 100% which was sus. Graphical menu was weird and displayed ambiguous graphic messages to avoid text. [...]

This is a security patch which is different from the QPR1 release. Supposedly once they partner with an OEM they will get more reliable access which would be nice, but I'm hesitant. I switched my Pixel 8 Pro to Graphene a few months ago and really like it.

[...] I have done exactly that with my Pixel 8 Pro. [...]

[...] Lets say 10W, which is silly high (most can only charge at around 20W for an hour and a charge lasts at least 12 hours, but lets just take a high number.) At 10W constant draw it would consume 87,600Wh per year. [...] (That's about $11/yr of electricity where I live, about 3 cents per day but this isn't my point.) (For reference, my Pixel 8 Pro gets 16+ hours on average if I don't put it on my wireless charger, and it's battery is only 5000mAh, which my calculations say is around 1W of average draw. This matches what I see on the display on my charging cord.) An average person in Norway consumes 24000kWh per year (according to wikipedia. [...]

[...] An easy example is how they ban any mention of GrapheneOS or LinageOS both the only sane option to pick for a pixel phone (I run Graphene on my Pixel 8 Pro).

I still can't use the "summarize" feature that was used in marketing to sell the Pixel 8 Pro. Not holding my breath on ever being able to use this, either.

Dunno, I have a Pixel 8 Pro, battery lasts all day unless I play demanding games (which nowadays is never).

[...] can't imagine using a top flag phone (pixel 8 pro) at the time with sub-optimal performance.

i switched back to samsung after experiencing terrible performance of the tensor chip in Pixel 8 Pro. To be honest, it's probably not their fault though if games/apps are not optimized for that. But I can't wait around, using a flagship phone with sub-optimal performance.

Plus, your phone comes with 7 years of OS and security updates. Way to go, the 7 years of updates was the reason I bought my Pixel 8 Pro

OnePlus used to - until they didn't anymore. OnePlus 8 was excellent. Pixel 8 Pro has the worst mobile reception I've ever had in a phone.

I've had a Pixel 8 Pro since launch day and have had zero issues with it. Really great phone.

Do these phones have an upgrade to the "phone" part? My Pixel 8 Pro keeps dropping networks every few days and takes minutes to reconnect.

[...] The newest Windows cert already requires some neuralchip and even my google pixel 8 pro can host small models (i know the pixel is not a cheap phone, but the coprocessor should still be much more affordable than a big GPU)

I have a pixel 8 pro and a canon r5 and honestly, unless I'm shooting at f2.0 or less, I generally prefer the pixel images. Not to mention they're instantly sharable.

New phone arrives tomorrow thankfully. It's a refurbished Pixel 8 Pro, I've been using refurb Pixel phones for a decade now basically. Very very much looking forward to being able to see colours on a phone again.

[...] You served me extremely well, and would have been my phone for years to come if it hadn't been for the awesome trade-in deal. I hope Google lives up to their 7 year promise with the Pixel 8 Pro because its everything I want in a phone. [...]

[...] Works on GrapheneOS and ran pretty quickly on my Pixel 8 Pro. [...] Reasonably accurate at transcribing this spam call I got the other day.

i also got a google pixel 8 pro a few days ago, i threw grapheneos on it and i like it so far. i got it in used condition locally for cheap