Google Pixel 8/8 Pro & Pixel Watch 2

LiE · 15 Oct 2023 at 11:56

5-6hrs SoT with locked 120hz on the regular P8.

Freefaller · 15 Oct 2023 at 12:10

Begbie said:
How's everyone's batteries?

Not very impressed, maybe 4-5 hours sot....

Mine lasted from 6am to 10pm with moderate use.

BMox81 · 15 Oct 2023 at 12:28

So I sent the phone/watch back on Thursday afternoon, was delivered in Poland on Friday. Spoke to CS to confirm that they had them of which they said they did and just received my refund in full.

I know that Google CS has a bit of a bad rap but just wanted to share that in this experience it was a positive one.

Ewaf · 15 Oct 2023 at 13:10

Not massively impressed with videos in the P8 pro tbh. For some reason when you send them on WhatsApp they look awful, loads of noise and pixelation. Perhaps the 10 bit HDR thing?

I know WhatsApp makes it look pretty trashy anyway but looks way worse than my p6 pro vids used to.

LiE · 15 Oct 2023 at 13:10

Ewaf said:
Not massively impressed with videos in the P8 pro tbh. For some reason when you send them on WhatsApp they look awful, loads of noise and pixelation. Perhaps the 10 bit HDR thing?

WhatsApp butchers video quality.

Ewaf · 15 Oct 2023 at 13:12

LiE said:
WhatsApp butchers video quality.

Ye but just seems much worse than it used to be on my p6 pro

LiE · 15 Oct 2023 at 13:20

Ewaf said:
Ye but just seems much worse than it used to be on my p6 pro

The HDR 10 bit probably increases file size meaning more compression and artefacts?

muon · 15 Oct 2023 at 13:31

The screen feels like a massive upgrade looking at reviews.

jrodga2k5 · 15 Oct 2023 at 15:50

Begbie said:
How's everyone's batteries?

Not very impressed, maybe 4-5 hours sot....

Fine, was 7 hours SOT with 40% left over on Friday on my Pixel 8.

I guess it depends on what apps etc you're using as Android 14/Tensor 3 optimisation might not be completely dialled in. Plus I've had the Watch 2 connected as well. No complains, on par or slightly better than my Pixel 7 was.

robj20 · 15 Oct 2023 at 15:58

muon said:
The screen feels like a massive upgrade looking at reviews.

DXO have it at number 1.

Google Pixel 8 Pro Display test

The Google Pixel 8 Pro excels with its versatile display, leading in readability and color. Experience improved tuning and HDR10 playback.

www.dxomark.com

sw2000 · 15 Oct 2023 at 16:21

robj20 said:
DXO have it at number 1.

Google Pixel 8 Pro Display test

The Google Pixel 8 Pro excels with its versatile display, leading in readability and color. Experience improved tuning and HDR10 playback.

www.dxomark.com

Screen optimisation is perfect, having owned nearly Samsung high end phones and Pixels over the last 3 years Samsung either go for burn your eyes out with Vivid profile , or the standard one which is really dull with a greyish tone.

Google does far better at optimising the colours on the displays IMO, this can also be seen with photos which are truer to life .

LadFromWales · 15 Oct 2023 at 16:39

Begbie said:
How's everyone's batteries?

Not very impressed, maybe 4-5 hours sot....

Hopefully you'll see an improvement on that! My Xperia 1 IV that's a year old gets around 6 hours on a bad day and 7.5 on a good one.

I'm still scouting eBay to go for another Pixel 8 Pro after getting a faulty one from iD and not wanting to deal with their shocking customer services. I did try, but I spent most of the day trying to get a replacement arranged but ended up cancelling!

Ewaf · 15 Oct 2023 at 16:45

Anyone find the font sizes all over the place? Some apps fonts are too small, some too big. If you increase the display size a lot of it becomes too big.

These forums for example, on chrome the font size is tiny for me on P8P

Begbie · 15 Oct 2023 at 17:50

Ewaf said:
Anyone find the font sizes all over the place? Some apps fonts are too small, some too big. If you increase the display size a lot of it becomes too big.

These forums for example, on chrome the font size is tiny for me on P8P

So I had this issue and increased the text to 150% on Firefox. Then I opened it up the next day and the font was massive. So now it's back to 100%. Strange

LadFromWales · 15 Oct 2023 at 20:18

BMox81 said:
So I sent the phone/watch back on Thursday afternoon, was delivered in Poland on Friday. Spoke to CS to confirm that they had them of which they said they did and just received my refund in full.

I know that Google CS has a bit of a bad rap but just wanted to share that in this experience it was a positive one.

Are you going to try another one or was one enough? :confused:

BMox81 · 15 Oct 2023 at 20:40

LadFromWales said:
Are you going to try another one or was one enough?

I think it’s best I admire Pixels from afar. Lol

Basill · 15 Oct 2023 at 21:05

Sent my 8 pro back, it's just no where near enough of an upgrade over the 7 pro. The upgrade to Android 14 may very well see me keeping the 7 Pro until the pixel 10 comes around.

V_R · 15 Oct 2023 at 21:47

kona786 said:
It's a decent size lip though not a big as more bulky cases.

robj20 said:
It's pretty substantial. Had to turn the edge gesture zone to the biggest setting to get reliable gestures.

Yeah I've got a Cyrill by Spigen case and its got quite a lip on it too. Guess its pretty standard then, cheers.

robj20 · 16 Oct 2023 at 05:32

Thinking of going switched back to Nova Prime launcher. So much better, can still have the Google at a glance bit, met office weather underneath, then my favourite apps.

V_R · 16 Oct 2023 at 07:48

I've used nova prime for donkeys years, couldn't use anything else. The only thing I'm less keen on is the new style at a glance widget that Google use on non pixel launchers.