pixel 8对比pixel9

this is the google pixelate and i'm not even gonna bother with a proper intro， because i want to show you something okay bring up the title graphic and let's get into my review so on the pixelate there's a feature called best take which i keep preferring to as face swap essentially， i take a few photos in a row of a person， a couple or a group and i could pull up a face and head editor again that's that's my term not googles and swap a person's head with their head from another image that's in the same series to get their best head for a given photo the result is i have a photo where everyone's eyes are open and everyone's smiling now philosophically this photo doesn't actually exist because it never happened and yet here it is at first， i was creeped out by best take， but it's absolutely incredible i mean it works remarkably well， i can't see the lines where people's heads were swapped and it only works on people， but i can almost hear rick osterlo say at the pixel 9 or pixel 10 launch we heard you and we're going to offer best take four pets applause and here after four days spent testing the pixelate on loan from google， i still can't get my head around the possibilities that best take opens up our photography can be even more curated and seemingly ideal before we even share a photo with friends or on social media thanks to ai which yay and there are more of these ai features for the camera which i'm definitely gonna get into， but let's step away from the possible personality altering ramifications of best take and knock out some actual tangible pixel eight upgrades in terms of the hardware， the pixel eight is a spelt version of the pixel seven it's shorter less wide， but actually a skosh thicker the pixelate weighs 10 grams less than the seven and when you combine all of that along with the fact that nearly every head on the phone is rounded over the pixelate is incredibly comfortable to hold with or without a case the review unit i've been testing is rose color which in most lighting looks nearly peach the screen is smaller， but so are the bezels around it the pixelate 6.2 inch display now has a 60 to 120 hertz variable refresh rate and it looks so good especially watching films playing games or even just looking at mundane android 14 animations the screen has a higher max brightness and is easy to see under bright sunlight especially compared to the pixel 7 and 7a where that really wasn't the case overall the pixelate looks dapper and well almost cheek it's still defined by that body width camera bar on the back which i really like that camera bar houses the same 12 megapixel ultra wide camera as previous pixel models， but it's also home to a 50 megapixel main camera with a new sensor that google touts as being able to collect 21 percent more light the front facing camera is also new， but on the 8 still has a fixed focus the camera app has a bit of a redesign in fact on the bottom is a toggle for two categories one for stills photos and one for video if i tap the camera icon i get all my regular camera modes like quarter mode long exposure if i tap the video camera icon i get all my modes for videos i really like this it did take about a day to get used to the new system， but i think it's a clever way of housing a bunch of different camera features and still what is considerably a very simple camera app also the pixel it has a new macro focus mode that kicks in where you're close to the subject on screen and icon pops up letting you know what's up i really like this edition and it's great for food and coffee snaps where i want to get close enough to the cup to fill the frame， but i also still wanted in focus now let's take a look at some of my favorite photos and videos i took with the pixel 8， so does the pixel 8 take better photos of the pixel 7 yes， but not dramatically different now check out these photos of the manhattan bridge that i took both look great， but if we punch in on where the main upright intersects the deck of the bridge you can see that the pixel 8 image has more detail and is sharper notice the individual rivets on the metal uprights compared to the pixel 7's photo where most of them are gone again this isn't dramatically different but it's better nonetheless and here's another example this time it's two photos taken in low light of a new york cat sleeping in the window it was dark but there was enough light that i didn't need to use night sight on either phone again both photos look similar at first glance， but if we zoom in on the cat notice， the detail and texture in the cats fur in the pixel 8 image and how defined and crisp the hair is compared to the pixel 7 photo where the cats fur looks muddy and then there are all of the ai features like best take which i mentioned at the beginning oh by the way best take not only works on photos taken with the pixelate， but on any photos in your google photos library so last month i reviewed the i phone 15 pro and 15 pro max， and i'm able to take photos that i shot with those phones like this one of cnets a bra， al heaty and swap out her face with ones from other images in that same series also remember magic eraser that lets you remove a distraction in your photo like maybe someone in the background that you didn't want well now there's a magic editor that lets you do even more for example here's a photo i took of seen as terra brown and theolygans jumping off a rock i used magic erasure， which debuted on the pixel 6 to remove the rock and it did okay， but here's the same photo using the new magic editor and it's not absolutely perfect， but there's definitely improvement over just the magic eraser version magic editor can do a lot like you can move your subject you can remove someone from the background basically if you see a photo of someone jumping that was taken on a pixel phone beware magic editor may have been used to exaggerate things the tool is a lot of fun， but does bring up a number of ethical questions when it comes to what is real and what is manipulated in photos especially， if these photos are going to go online fortunately magic editor is it perfect and i can usually tell a photo that i used it on versus one that i didn't since the way the ai creates the fill on the background is still just okay and sometimes it does take a few seconds for this effect or this tool to kick in maybe that will improve and there's one more magical tool i want to talk about what is this an apple review i kid i kid it's called audio magic eraser， which i can use to clean up audio in videos i record for better clarity all right i'm shooting this selfie video in the hotel lobby here at the clancy hotel and i thought this would be a great way to test out the new audio magic eraser so here it is without the magic eraser applied and here it is with the matter gracer pod do i sound better can hear me you know all the click clinks and other things going on in the backgrounds taken in total the pixelate has an outstanding camera system with a lot of features all of which are powered by google's new tensor g3 ship google's tensorship has never been about pure performance horsepower instead it targets optimizing specific task empowering all those ai goodies now i've been using the pixelate for four days and i never ran into any performance issues when i was downloading games and setting those up the phone did get warm but that was the only time the g3 hip along with android 14 makes the pixel ate a delight to use there's face unlock which is once again secure enough to actually use for contactless payments yay， there are strange non camera ai features like ai wallpaper that lets you create an original wallpaper for your home screen based on a mad lib style prompt the pixelate also has a slightly bigger battery than last year's pixel 7 in the four days， i've had it the pixelate had no problem lasting on a single charge over the course of a day now， i'm still working on running seen that's arsenal with battery test and performance spin mark tests so make sure sure to check out my full written review with all my results perhaps the two biggest changes to the pixelate have nothing to do with the actual phone the first is the price， the pixelate， costs， six hundred and ninety nine dollars， and that's a hundred dollars more than the pixel six and pixel seven i actually think the updates you get like the refined body design the new display， the main camera improvements are worth the price and that the increased price on this pixel eight is more reflective of just how ridiculously affordable google price， the pixel six and seven the other big feature is that the pixelate will receive seven years of os support which is longer than most android phones， but not the longest that would be the fair phone 5 which offers eight years of support now will the pixelate survive until 2030 maybe， i don't know and with all that i recommend the pixelate for anyone coming from a pixel six， a or older or well any phone， android or ios that's three years older more if you're trying to pick between the pixel seven a and eight just know that the pixelate is better in dearly every way， but it does cost two hundred dollars more and in terms of the pixel 8 and 8 pro you get like a solid 85 percent of the pixel 8 pro experience on the regular 8 at the end of the day， the google pixel 8 is an ideal phone for most people and now i want to hear from you what pixelate feature stands out most to you throw your thoughts in the comments and if you enjoyed this video， please give it a thumbs up and make sure to check out my full in depth， written review on seen it thank you for watching。