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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:55 Software Features
3:11 Audio Magic Eraser
3:57 Best Take
5:00 Magic Editor
5:48 Future AI Features
6:35 User Experience
8:30 Google’s 7 Year Promise
10:03 Conclusion

On the Pixel 8 Pro, the camera bar has been improved a bit with better ultrawide and telephoto cameras, and now it has this nicely textured matte glass. The display is now flat and can get up to 2400 nits of peak brightness, which I thought I wouldn’t notice but you can tell the screen is overall brighter in day to day use, it’s really nice to use. And the Pixel 8 Pro has the new Google Tensor G3 Chip which should make it faster than last year’s model.

Google’s major goal for the pixel line seems to be trying to make taking and editing photos and videos easy for the everyday person. And I think they do a great job of that. The camera hardware is fantastic, but the camera software and user experience has always been what’s impressed me most. The Pixel Camera introduces complex techniques that professional photographers and videographers know how to do but make it a single button press or one toggle switch away, and makes it easier for everyone to use without having to spend 15-30 minutes to learn how to do something.

But Google is pushing their Photo and Video AI features for this phone hard:
There’s audio magic eraser that removes background noise in videos you take. This is great for making your audio emphasize your voice instead of all the annoying stuff around you. Overall this feature is helpful for the average person to control how audio sounds from their videos.

Best Take scans a bunch of those photos and replaces people’s faces with a different one from one of the other similar images, so you can select the perfect one like, one of them smiling and looking at the camera

Then there’s Magic Editor which lets you replace entire objects with new ones, or move objects to different positions or increase their size anywhere on the image.

Google has also promised future AI features that are coming to the Pixel 8 Pro. And let me disclaimer this. I don’t believe in buying a device with the promise of future updates. Assume what you’re buying today, is what you’ll be working with until your next phone upgrade. Software and features can get delayed or never manifest at all. So let’s talk about those coming soon features then.

Video Boost is a feature that sends the video you took to google’s server for AI processing that can improve overall video quality. It takes time to process, but then automatically updates your phone with the processed video you took. This includes Night Sight video, which will improve the videos you take in low light environments. Lastly Google is implementing bard, their ChatGPT competitor, to Google Assistant, emails and I’m assuming other Google services. That’s a lot of features coming to the Pixel 8 Pro.

Google is promising 7 years of feature drops, software updates, and security updates. But Phones get used and worn down over time. You could accidentally crack the screen, or the battery just goes bad. So the chances that a phone lasts 7 years seemed unlikely. Thankfully Google is partnered with iFixit. And also sells genuine Google parts for Pixel repairs, and the prices aren’t ridiculous either. So there’s a good chance that Google could meet their promise of supporting the Pixel 8 lineup in software updates and have hardware repairs available through partners like ifixit to ensure your aging device stays out of the retirement home. But again, things about the future should be held with at least a little skepticism. So just be aware things can change. Google has been notorious for getting rid of services that they don’t see as viable right out of nowhere. And they do try to make things right with their customers, but it’s still annoying to have something promised, and for it to not pan out or meet expectations.

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