1 GOOGLE PIXEL 8 PRO
• From £999, store.google.com
It’s important, we think, to consider iteration as progress, because those complaining about the stagnation of the phone market are missing the point. Yes, everyone’s next big phone is yet another black rectangle. But iterative updates offer significant excitement, and while the market may have settled on what the phone is, it is far from finished with what the phone can do.
Case in point, as if it wasn’t obvious, the Pixel 8 Pro. Visually it is, well, a Pixel device. The back shares that classic Pixel camera bar motif, and the AMOLED screen is the same size and resolution as the Pixel 7 Pro before it. It iterates, of course, flattening off the 7 Pro’s curves, making its refresh rate adaptable from 1-120Hz, and boosting the brightness now up to a 2,400 nit peak, but this is still a Pixel.
But one small iteration in the guts of the thing, the jump from Google’s Tensor G2 to the Tensor G3 chip, adds scads of AI smarts to this latest top-end Pixel, and Google
