The Morning After: Our verdict on Google’s Pixel 8 Professional

The opinions maintain coming this week. After all of the AI methods, rock-climbing and specification barrage we noticed at Google’s huge Pixel reveal occasion, how do Google’s flagship smartphones stack up?

Fairly nicely, in line with our opinions of each the Pixel 8 Professional and Pixel 8. The shock spotlight is AI, utilizing machine studying and its do-it-yourself Tensor G3 chip in a tangible and sensible manner in comparison with providers like ChatGPT or Midjourney. This contains making your pictures look higher, movies sound higher and provides interactive robo-voice panache to name screening.

Each units as soon as once more have extremely succesful cameras, with 5x optical zoom on the Pixel 8 Professional (matching the iPhone 15 Professional Max) and new professional controls too. Based on Engadget’s Sam Rutherford, the Pixel 8 Professional seems like essentially the most highly effective smartphone digicam available on the market.

If there’s one caveat, each the Pixel 8 and eight Professional price $100 greater than their predecessors. Within the assessment, we break down all the brand new AI options and take a look at the cameras out at that basic photograph occasion — a coworker’s wedding ceremony.

(We additionally reviewed the Pixel Watch 2, nevertheless it’s much less of a .)

— Mat Smith

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