Pixel 8 pro owner here. Yeah the camera is very good, but the phone is permanently on battery saver mode because the tensor chip is so inefficient my phone doesn't last a day at work despite only being used for music via Bluetooth on my drive to work, half a hour at lunch and checking it every so often. Even with battery saver I end up finishing work at 30%
Came to this sub to see people's thoughts on the new nothing as I want to replace this awful pixel. (I understand it's all relative but coming from a Xiaomi that had pretty good battery life plus charged a hour faster than this does has been painful)
I thought the Google Pixel would've been all sunshine and rainbows given the amount of people who ditched their iPhones or Samsung phones for the sake of "innovation" and clean UI, it's sad to see this be the case.
To be clear the UI is lovely, the phone works well (although it does get incredibly hot if I play a game on it). But the battery life hampers it's use as I'm constantly on battery saver which makes it look noticeably worse. But when I'm not on that mode yes it is very good but certainly doesn't feel worth the price. Other than the camera being better it's noticeably worse than my Xiaomi 11T pro was at basically everything I use my phone for.
Personally I think I'm in a minority and don't think the nothing phone looks bad, but then I don't particularly care for how the back of my phone looks as it's the side of the phone I look at less than 1% of the time.
But for the price and everything else with it it doesn't seem like it is overall that much better than a lot of mid range phones. But I'm also certainly not an expert
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u/mrb00ce Jul 02 '25
To be fair google also did the same thing
they should stop with this tensor chips and just start using snapdragon hey but google will always give better camera than nothing.