Google Pixel 8 Review: Watch Before You Buy!

In this video, I talk about my experience using Google's Pixel 8 for over a month now. I cover the battery life, camera, general performance, and AI features! Thanks for watching!

@arranpbrown

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 What we cover in this video
0:27 Battery Life
2:33 Camera
3:14 Other issues
4:01 Speakers
4:35 Camera AI Features
5:13 Other Pixel-exclusive Software Features
6:27 Durability
7:17 General Thoughts
8:26 Who should buy the Pixel 8?

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[arranpbrown]

What are your thoughts on the Pixel 8?! Let me know down below! 👇

[sontarian]

It’s incredible aside from this great review the fact you have seemingly replied to most if not all comments. You deserve a hell of a lot more subs bro keep it up

[WinFan]

Great review! I appreciate the fact that you explained well how you tested for the battery life and pointed out the SOT is not the be all end all for how long the battery lasts. Just earned you a sub. 🙂

[asAKIOra]

I watched a lot of Pixel 8 videos and I strongly prefer your take on it. I also liked that you took the time to explain some Pixel only features since I never owned one and they are not always advertised since they are supposed to be "known". Great video! Subed!

[robinmackenziespinks]

Great review Arran. I love the Recorder app and the call screening feature too. It's overall very easy to use and probably the android phone for iOS users looking to switch. Really nice pace and style of video. Thank you.

[waynealbers]

Outstanding review Aaron. You definitely are capable of getting 10s of 1000s of more new subscribers. You are so much of a better reviewer than 100s of other you-tube reviewers out there. You just need to pump out more videos to get you-tube algorithms to work in your favour. I stumbled across your channel and was very impressed with your style and anyone who wears track pants on their channel gets my vote for authenticity. All the best with the channel. You just earned another sub. Thank you.

[phritza]

Great review! My pixel 4 bricked itself overnight and I was tempted to buy the 8 but the 7 was on sale for £300 so I bought that instead.

[RafaelMurta]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. So many bad things has been said about the non-Pro version by reviewers that usually stay for a couple of days with the phone and don't care to have the proper time to feel the whole experience. I've been a Samsung user for the last 7 years and I'm really surprised with my Pixel 8 after the first 45 days.

[AlanA]

Yesterday I got my Pixel 8 and I love it so far. The only thing I miss from my Oneplus 9 is the charging speed

[darkpoethd]

Absolutely adore my 8pro up to now, coming from my now 6 year old XZ PREMIUM the difference is incredible

[slickdaddy]

I've some time on the Pixel 8. I am sorta a phone fanatic. The 8 has been great and checks all the boxes. IMO, for the money, cannot be matched. I would feel confident in recommending the Pixel 8.

[violetskydiver]

Damn im glad i found this review! I got a Pixel 8 about a week ago and it has the same weird white screen swipe bug in the camera app. I couldn't find anything about it online so thankfully its not an isolated issue and it can be fixed soon.

[electrology]

I have always bought the Pro models. I absolutely love the smaller form factor of the 8. I really hope google makes the smaller model exactly the same as the Pro but make the screen size the only difference..that would be awesome

[nicom]

Hi, just got the Pixel 8 a week ago and I had the same random restarts as you. I even had 5 restarts in the span of 30 minutes which wasn't normal. On other days it would go without any problem.
Browsing reddit I saw that apparently a lot of people seem to have this issue. No one seems to know exactly why. Somz people say it's a memory leak from third party apps, some thinks it's hardware related. Anyway it is a big issue for a 800€ phone which is a shame because it's pretty good in all other areas

[octavian]

Using my Pixel 8 from Kenya. Downsides I'd say are the battery, which still isn't that great and the network, which I don't see getting fixed anytime soon. Experiencing call drops similar to last year's Pixel 7. If you're in Africa I wouldn't recommend this phone at all, unless as a tech enthusiast.

[colonelsanders]

If you go out of your way to try and really maximize for battery, like using 60hz, switching to 4g(not having it on all the time), turning off wifi scanning, keeping the brightness at reasonable levels, I can usually get 10-11 hours of sot, im typing this now sitting at 37%, the last time I charged was 2 days ago, and I have 7 hours of sot with 45 minutes of Spotify in the background. Also, I'm pretty sure that my battery was not properly calibrated out of the factory, the first time I tried to kill it, it was stuck on 1% for 2 1/2 hours worth of sot. Once I figured that out, the battery improved drastically. As the phone actually knew what zero was.

[overflow]

I don't know what to make of this phone. At 800€ for the 256GB version it is already competing with the Galaxy S23, which in my opinion is simply the more capable phone due to the Snapdragon Chip. Especially if you consider how close you come to Googles Camera prowess by installing the GCam Mod for Galaxy Phones. Plus, the fingerprint reader is supposedly way better on Samsung devices. Google says they upgraded the hardware of the pixels, but in the wrong places I guess.

[WilderPoo]

Absolutely mad that I got this wee unit from EE for £250 "good as new". Basically someone didn't like it and returned it within 14 days. So happy with it

[mr.rotdog]

I still am using my pixel 3 that I bought new. Five years later I'm starting to have an issue. Thanks for the review I'll be getting one this weekend.

[patilparimal]

I am facing the same restaring issue you mentioned at 3:17, it usually happens when I've not used the phone for a while. I hope it can solved by a software update by google!