The usual Google Pixel 8 has change into barely smaller. Mates of compact, high-performance smartphones could also be within the new Google smartphone. In comparison with its predecessor, the show has been upgraded and now helps 120 Hz and is noticeably brighter. In our assessments, we measured a median brightness of 1410 cd/m²; the utmost brightness for HDR content material is 1930 nits. The smartphone nearly achieves the 2000 cd/m² claimed by Google.
The digicam delivers good outcomes, however the {hardware} is identical as that of the Pixel 7. In contrast to the Pixel 8 Professional, the conventional Pixel 8 doesn’t have a zoom lens and the ultra-wide-angle digicam has not been upgraded within the small mannequin. This yr, Google is focusing closely on AI picture modifying with the “magic editor”. The outcomes are blended – considerably spectacular, considerably insignificant. Nevertheless, post-image processing takes a while and the tip information has be saved within the cloud.
It is also a disgrace that Google nonetheless makes use of UFS 3.1 storage. We might have appreciated UFS 4.0, particularly given the value improve in comparison with its predecessor. The built-in USB-C 3.2 Gen 1 additionally solely delivered gradual switch charges in our measurements and doesn’t assist picture output.
Google’s personal SoC, the Tensor G3, delivers stable efficiency. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless not on par with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, as our benchmark measurements present. In any other case, Google deserve reward for its new replace coverage, promising 7 years of updates. This could embrace safety, system updates and have drops. Google additionally intends to offer spare elements for a similar size of time.
All in all, we have been impressed by the efficiency of the brand new Google Telephone. If the Pixel 8 is definitely supplied with updates for seven years and can be utilized for a correspondingly very long time, the extra worth over its predecessor is justified. Lastly, the smartphone has no severe shortcomings.
Expertise and journalism have at all times come collectively in my previous. Nevertheless, it was largely vehicles and bikes that I put below the microscope. Since my lively triathlon days, I have been a fan of sports activities watches and smartwatches – triathlon is historical past for me, however the enthusiasm for watches continues to be there. That is why, in parallel to my dissertation in theology, I write at Notebookcheck primarily about smartwatches, but additionally about different information and know-how that pursuits me.
Rising up in regional Australia, I first grew to become acquainted with computer systems in my early teenagers after a damaged leg from a soccer (soccer) match briefly condemned me to a predominately indoor life-style. Quickly afterwards I used to be constructing my very own methods. Now I dwell in Germany, having moved right here in 2014, the place I examine philosophy and anthropology. I’m significantly fascinated by how laptop know-how has essentially and dramatically reshaped human tradition, and the way it continues to take action.
