Google Pixel 8 - Unlocked Android
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Condition: New
Color: Rose
Size: 128 GB
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19 people found this helpful
Very fine performance from underrated Pixel
By IvySofia on Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2025
First off, I confess to being a Pixel 4a fanatic. To my mind, it is the single best Android phone ever, given the price point, sleek dimensions, and durability. After four years of use, my darling Barely Blue 4a was still going strong. If it were up to me, I would have continued to use it until it would run no more. Alas, as with all things business nowadays, it has a usable lifespan that is shorter than its little-phoone-that-could heart. Google stopped providing security updates for it in August 2023, and I will not wade into the hatchet job the company effected from afar on Pixel 4a users through a forced battery software retool in January 2025. Luckily for me, my 4a was not among the Impacted Devices that imploded after Google's sneaky move. Still, the battery had already degraded, and the battery "fix" meant that it lost power sooner. My 4a is still fine as a backup phone, and I will use it that way going forward. In any case, I had purchased this Pixel 8 over the holidays, after being unimpressed by the Pixel 9 series phones at the significantly higher pricetag. No phone will rival the 4a in my heart (though perhaps the Pixel 5 was close enough), but this is now the most compact feature-laden phone I could find. The Pixel 8a is quite close, and I nearly chose that, but the 8 has significant upgrades that made it worthwhile, particularly as I actually paid less for it than sale prices on the 8a. The Pixel 8 has a sharp screen, snappy performance, and on the tweaks I care about, without any of the pricey additions that do not matter to me. Certainly the screen is brighter, the processor a tad faster, and the battery a bit beefier on the 9 series, but not enough to distract me from my wallet's contentment with the 8's pricetag. The fingerprint reader is a disappointment, particularly coming from the effortless 4a back-of-the-phone version, but again, not worth several hundred dollars more to me for the upgrade. This phone has guaranteed security updates through fall of 2030, smooth scrolling, all the great Pixel camera perks and none of the silly gimmicks. Although the 9a is just around the corner, I am quite content to sit with my Pixel 8 until someone wises up to the niche of folks who want a small (as in 4a size) phone with many but not all of the bells and whistles, or until I give up and purchase another phone with enough to offer to make it worth my while.
Top critical review
3 people found this helpful
Frustratingly Close to a Good Phone
By Bob on Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2024
I've had this phone for 12 months now, and I can finally say that I truly hate it. I tend to hold onto a phone for 5 years, coming to the Pixel 8 Pro from a Galaxy S9+. I'll be switching to an iPhone as soon as possible. The first major issue I had was upon opening it and starting it up. It took hours, and nothing happened. None of my apps transferred, nothing was downloaded, it was a mess. It took two or three calls with their online support to find that there was some sort of Google Play Store bug that locked me out of being able to install apps. After a few days of not being able to use the phone I was finally reinstalling apps one by one. The fingerprint reader is garbage. (Was garbage, now it's okay after a mid year update). I cannot open my phone with my fingerprint. The slightest change in the angle of my finger is completely unrecognized, meaning that I have to use the face unlock (impossible in low light settings) or the PIN. The gesture controls are truly terrible. The button use for pulling up the assistant is annoying as hell, and now after a November 2024 software update, I have an extremely annoying haptic response on touching the screen that can't be turned off. It's on EVERYTHING. Scroll up, down, tap, swipe, IT DOES NOT STOP. Even with the haptics turned off in the settings the annoying buzz persists. This has been the worst phone I've had in decades. Updated [12/31/24] - After some trouble shooting with the Pixel support team, it sounds like my phone doesn't work as it should. I have the correct settings to disable haptics, but the annoying buzz persists intermittently when scrolling with apps, taping, swiping, typing, etc. I switched to the Pixel 8 Pro from Samsung, because I was tired of the required Samsung bloatware and getting ads in apps. This phone has been the most disappointing phone I've ever owned. It does the difficult things really well, but the basic thing like user interface, experience, and general usage; very poorly. Thank you to the Pixel Support team for helping me look into the issues with the phone. They've offered me the "Standard Exchange" option where I can mail them my phone, and be without one for a few days, they'll take a look at it, and mail a replacement. The whole process could take 5-14 days... OR, I can just go get an iPhone, and be done with this thing. Verizon, I'll see you Saturday.
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