The Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro come with impressive — and controversial — new photo editing tools, like Best Take and Magic Editor. With significant updates and seven years of software support promised, they might just be the Pixel phones we’ve been waiting for.
Google’s pitch for the Pixel phone in recent years has centered on how smart the phone is — that it’s one step ahead of you and can help take some of the pain out of your daily chores. The Pixel 6 and 7 didn’t quite live up to that vision, but these Pixel 8 devices feel like the first phones that could turn the sales pitch into a reality. Right now, they’re better phones than their predecessors in some appreciable ways.
My impression of the camera part of the Pixel camera — or at least the first two-thirds of the light-to-photo pipeline — is largely the same as in previous years. It’s occasionally brilliant, and when it fails, it at least fails in a predictable way. It keeps shutter speeds high when there’s a moving subject in the scene, and I managed to capture a series of Portrait mode photos of my toddler running at full speed — all in focus. And Face Unblur continues to be the unsung hero of Pixel cameras.
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