The Google Pixel 8 Pro is one of the phones that most grabbed our interest in 2023. That’s because its predecessor, the Pixel 7 Pro, was one of our favourite phone releases in 2022 – an obvious contender for the best Android phone and, in that instance, the T3 Award-winning handset of the year – so surely the 8 Pro could only be even better? Well, yes and no.
While at first we thought the Pixel 8 Pro was a lot like its predecessor, it’s a fairly different handset overall. First off, it removes the curved screen of the 7 Pro for a flat one. But while we can appreciate the Pixel 8 Pro’s flat screen is more practical, it just looks less special. That’s a ‘head versus heart’ argument there, though: we know a flat screen makes more sense, it’s just that the Pixel 7 Pro looks more appealing overall.
The design does closely resemble previous Pixel models in many ways, though, which we can’t help but appreciate.
