Google announced the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro, Featuring a host of new stuff, better cameras, and more software features. This article will provide you with Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro Design, Major Updates, and more.
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Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro: Design
The new Pixel 8 and 8 Pro, One look at them, and you can easily tell that these are Pixels. I love that Google is sticking to its design language with large camera bars serving as accents, just with more rounded corners this time around giving them a softer look.
The Pixel 8 comes in three glossy colors. Hazel which is grey with a greenish tint, Rose which is more peachy than it is pink, and black obsidian. The Pixel 8 Pro comes in three matte colors which by the way is new if you look at last year’s model and the previous models the pro models were also glossy.
Talk about the colors there’s obsidian, as well as porcelain which is a creamy white, and bay which is a bright sky blue. One more thing on the design front while the Pixel 8 is glossy and the 8 Pro is matte, the camera bar and the frame around the phone are the opposite, So glossy frame on the pro and matte on the non-pro.
Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro: Major Upgrades
If you already own a Pixel 7 or 7 Pro should you upgrade this year? Well, let’s take a look at three of the biggest upgrades coming to the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro. We had thermometers on fitness trackers before but never on a phone that’s now built into the Pixel 8 Pro is a temperature sensor.
1. Temperature Sensor
The temperature sensor is close to the camera under the flash, it works almost like a heat gun that you point at food or techies sometimes, like to do at a computer to see if it’s overheating. To use it you just launched the new thermometer app and point it at anything, Two inches away is the sweet spot.
For example, I pointed it at a glass of champagne and it showed 65.4 F. Maybe in the future it will work like one of those temperature sensors when you walk into a building so that people know that if you have a fever.
2. Google Tensor G3
Both the new pixels are powered by Google’s own tensor G3 SOC, while optimized for things like computational photography. The previous G2 wasn’t as great when it came to other things, like battery life or powering graphic-intensive games on the Pixel 7 series. So hopefully that’s addressed this year.
3. New and Improved Camera System
The star of the Pixel show is definitely its cameras, both the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro have new cameras including a 50-megapixel main camera with with an F1.68 aperture. The pro model also gets an upgraded ultra-wide camera with 48 megapixels, while the regular Pixel 8 gets autofocus on the ultra-wide meaning it finally gets the ability to take macro photos also. The 5x telephoto camera on the Pro model also gets an F2.8 aperture and a faster lens.
Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro: Better Google Assistant
When you’re shopping for an Android phone, one of the reasons to buy a Pixel over its competitors is all the exclusive software features, and here are some of our favorites. Google Assistant can now summarize and read aloud or translate a web page.
So for example, if you’re visiting a city and you only have time for the cliff notes version of an article, you can get Google Assistant to summarize it for you, all with the press of a power button, you can also have read aloud to read that webpage for you or if you speak another language you could also have it translate it for you.
Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro: Enhanced Magic Editor
Two years ago, Google announced Eraser and to be honest I don’t know how we lived without it. On the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro Google is expanding with a feature called Magic Editor which Google teased at IO earlier this year, Generative AI is built in so now you can do things like, move a subject somewhere else in the photo.
Make it larger or maybe even change the look from a moody day to Golden Hour, or even change the style to something out of a comic book like most generative AI tools, you’ll get four different options to choose from and if you don’t like any of them you can have them generate another set for you.
Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro: Best Take
One feature that I personally like is called Best take, let me just describe it for you, Say you’re at a restaurant there’s a group of you and you ask the waiter to take a photo, usually he or she will take about five shots so that you have something to choose from and when you peruse those five shots, the photo where you look the cutest may not be
the best photo overall, maybe someone else in the group is destroying the shot and is looking away or doesn’t really look attractive in that particular shot. Well, what the best take does is it looks at all of the five shots and for each person it picks the shot where they look the best, it combines those photos together outputting a shot where all of you look your best.
Lastly, there’s a Magic eraser for audio. This one blew me away when you edit a video you shot using your Pixel, AI can distinguish between voice music and background noise and then gives you the option to remove just the background noise without affecting the quality of the voice.
Coming soon a feature called Video Boost will provide automatic color grading as well as software-based video stabilization, this one’s a bonus since the launch of Android 13 the Pixel 7 series and the Pixel Fold get VPN for free thanks to Google One, this comes to the entire Pixel 8 lineup, to activate just enable VPN from the Google One app.
Which Of The Pixel 8 Series is Your Gadget Match?
And now to the question of the day, Which Pixel 8 Model is your Gadget Match? Well, let’s take a look at what’s different. First of course there’s size, the Pixel 8 has a 6.2-inch display while the Pixel 8 Pro has 6.7 inches. Google really differentiates the Pro from the non-pro model.
On the display front, the Pro model is far Superior it’s got more resolution both now have 120-hertz refresh rates, but the Pixel 8 Pro has an LTPO panel meaning it can go down to a more power-efficient one-hertz versus 60-hertz, the Pro has Gorilla Glass Victus 2 on both its front and back which compared to original Victus which is
on the Pixel 8, Corning says is more resistant to drops on rough surfaces. Lastly, the 8 Pro also has a brighter panel going all the way up to 2400 nits of peak brightness, while both phones run tensor G3 the Pro models have memory offering 12 gigabytes of RAM versus 8, and in terms of configurations the Pixel 8 comes in 128 and 156 Gigabyte models. While the 8 Pro goes all the way up to one terabyte of storage.
Battery
Finally, the batteries on both models are larger this year with a bigger bump on the Pixel 8. The Pro models can charge Slightly faster 30 watts versus 27 watts wired and 23 watts versus 18 watts wireless.
CONCLUSION
n conclusion, the Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro seem to offer substantial upgrades, especially in terms of camera capabilities and unique features like the temperature sensor. Whether you choose the Pixel 8 or the Pro version will depend on your specific requirements, and the innovative software features make these devices even more compelling options for Android fans.
FAQs
1. What are the key design features of the Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro?
The Pixel 8 and 8 Pro maintain Google’s distinctive design with large camera bars as accents, but they have more rounded corners for a softer look.
2. How many color options are available for the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro?
The Pixel 8 comes in three glossy colors: Hazel, Rose, and black obsidian, while the Pixel 8 Pro offers three matte colors: obsidian, porcelain, and bay.
3. What major upgrades do the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro bring compared to their predecessors?
The major upgrades include a temperature sensor, Google Tensor G3 SOC, and an enhanced camera system.
4. What is the Magic Editor feature, and how does it work?
The Magic Editor is a feature that leverages Generative AI. It allows users to manipulate photos, change subjects’ positions, adjust lighting or alter the photo’s style.
5. What does the “Best Take” feature do?
The “Best Take” feature analyzes multiple photos taken in a sequence and selects the best shot for each person, combining them into a single photo where everyone looks their best.
