Google Pixel 8 Pro Unlocked Smartphone

I use my phone along with Android auto every time I get in the car. Photos are pretty good with the only thing needing improvement is that my red roses don’t appear as bright a red as they are to my eyes even though all other vehicles and people are color matched perfectly.
Calls and messages are passed through effortlessly and I can resize the keyboard if my 80 year old fingers need a bigger target to type with. I keep a 3 sided case (Crave) on at all times which adds protection without bulk.

It pains me to criticize what is probably a very good phone, but I’ve pretty much reached my limit with products that are sold with absolutely no regard for the consumer.

This cell phone is boxed with no charging cable (only a data transfer cable) and no Instruction or User manual. To shell out $1,000 for a phone that you cannot charge or find out how to use without purchasing additional items or going on YouTube to watch a video is near criminal, in my opinion. There is not even a diagram that shows where the power on/off button is located, where to insert the SIM card, where the volume control button is, etc. I’m sure the phone has a lot of wonderful features, but good luck guessing as to what they are, or how to take advantage of them, without any type of insert or manual to read.

I’ve gone through this problem before, and it seems that the more expensive the item is, such as a computer or television, the less assistance is provided at the time of purchase in terms of its usage and functionality. Enough is enough! To not even include a wall adapter to charge the phone is the height of ridiculousness and absolute cheapness on Google’s part. You just spend $1,000 and their response is to thumb your nose at you, with the gall and assumption that you can just figure everything out on your own. Google touts all these wonderful features such as a Telephoto Lens and a Super Actual Display (whatever the heck that means), in addition to Artificial Intelligence and then leaves you high and dry as to how to use those features. Granted, most people can probably figure a lot of it out on their own, but this smartphone is considered by critics to be among the Top 3 phones of the year, which means it has stats and capabilities that far exceed the typical throwaway burner phone.

So, help us out a little, will you? I just spent $1,000. Why did I spend this much money, to just throw a product at me and then ask me to just figure everything out on my own, or do the work that you should have done for me? Shame on you, Google!

I upgraded from S22 ultra

I feel this phone is smooth, camera is phenomenal and the HDR and night boost is amazing. It does take time to upload and process the videos but it’s been great so far.

The camera AI features are nice to have. Its hard to take good family pictures when going out sometimes so the face edit is neat , the only downside it works for 5 people at max. The AI size adjustments and moving stuff is nice but need to be precise so when moving objects, AI can properly fill the place behind it

I’ve encountered some freezes at first but it stopped after the latest update.

Battery is good, i never ran out of battery but i never tried going a full day out where i might need to charge, I also got a power bank that I can attach to the back of the phone with the magsafe case i got from dbrand , thats why i didn’t complain about the battery. I only used the power bank when i forget to charge my phone at night.

Screen brightness is really bright. At night it can be a flashbang if you’re in your room with lights out, becareful of the auto brightness.

AI features like summarize and call screening only works in the US? I ordered it to a frieght forwarder and shipped it overseas. The summarize and call screening doesnt work. Car keys and google VPN doesn’t work either.

Google gimini got introduced in a recent update, its the google version of chat GPT. It works well but sometimes it glitches out for example, I asked gimini ” show me the bullet train ticket prices from tokyo to kyoto ” . It showed me prices in JPY and I asked to convert to my local currency and he did, tried that again few days later and gmini apologize and said he can’t do it.

You can’t have google assistant and gimini at the same time when using shortcuts or the ” hey google ” . Sometimes im driving and i want to play a certain song but then i remember i have the gimini enabled and not assistant so i can’t tell him to play the song because gimini answers questions and tasks are assistant’s job.

One con that really annoys me is the Bluetooth. Its weird. When i connect the phone to my car, sometimes it doesn’t play the audio or the lag between audio and video is big, never had that in my s22 ultra. Also when playing music , my car screen always shows the song duration and name when using the S22 but on the pixel , it only shows the song title and no duration. Also there is a lag when displaying the song title.

There is one tiny thing that i really liked is gesture control. You can double tap the back side of the phone to take screenshot or do a specific task, really cool. And the song auto detection is always welcomed. I once was watching a movie at home , the character was in
Cafe and the cafe had background music. The phone detected it and i was surprised.

Thats is all what i can think of as of right now