BRUTALLY HONEST! - PIXEL 8 VS GALAXY S23

I think in my humble opinion the budget king phone is the one with the price that doesn’t go over your budget.

I am about to make this decison, thanks Koyin.

When I hear that people have to charge their phone twice (or even once a day) I ask myself what these people do with their phones, where they work and what they do...

what was that jedi survivor on phone?

why cant you recommend the s23? there's bound to be a price drop once s24 comes out...

I got S23 for Christmas and it's going back to Samsung tomorrow. My main issue apart from the clustered and messy UI and duplicate and unnecessary apps are the cameras. The selfie camera is damn good, video recording seems OK, but the rear main camera is the problem here. It oversaturizes and oversharpens pictures. Turning off scene optimizer helps, but there is noticeable noise in the photos especially in the indoor photos. Lack of details when zoomed in too. It has significant lense flare, night photos below average and lit-up too much artificially. And the worst is how the camera handles the faces of people. If you're white, you will end up with pale white smoothened skin looking like you're wearing a make-up. All the details like wrinkles, freckles just disappear from your face making you look like a boy with a plastic face, even when you turn down face smoothening in options to zero, it still does it. My girlfriend, who has dark skin, looks like an orange in every photo for a change. A £900 pounds Samsung flagship phone that cannot even get the colours right. The cameras also struggle with moving objects. This is not a phone for families with small kids that run around. It can manage OK in good light conditions, but once cloudy or indoor everything moving becomes blurry. The phone has nice display and is fast, but the photos are a dealbreaker for me. If you like to take realistic coloured photos, avoid S23 like a plague. This is a phone for showing off pictures on social media.

What wallpaper are you using for the pixel 8?

Can you set one alarm for a specific date and time in the future? Then, once you dismiss it, it will delete that one-time alarm. I have an iphone and not having this feature drives me insane. I don't want a calendar notification or a reminder because when I have my phone on silent (which I do most of the time) the alarm will not ring loudly, defeating the purpose. Also, are you able to schedule a text to send on a specific day/time in the future? I know other android phones have these features and I just want to double check that pixel 8 does as well before I purchase it! Thanks!

Well i got a Pixel 8 for $120CAD with a two year contract

It feel like Google sponsor this video

Google Pixel community page problem "recording cancelled when voice messaging. Returning the 8. Google has no solution for this problem.

s23 forever!!!!!!!!!

Do you understand Brand equity? Its better you guys rollout the updates and security patches time to time inorder to prevent vulnerabilities and stability. Instead of experimenting and then recalling the devices of the market .

I had several Samsung models, currently I have an S23 and for me the Samsung cameras are average, they saturate the colors too much. I want the photo to be what my eye sees, so I would choose the Pixel 8 without hesitation. Greetings from Poland

I recently lost my 14pro and had to go back to my dads old samsung s9. And i am thinking of getting the pixel 8 because its only $749 right now at best buy canada.

interesting choice to export in 60fps. I would love to hear if you had any specific reasoning to do that? I can see some benefits but it is a bit out of the ordinary.

Pixel anytime and anyday ,still rocking my pixel 5

Superb review - Thanks.
Built in VPN? Not good enough. Which servers? Run by whom? How Secure? How fast are the servers? And, where is the VPN based. The U.S. ICE etc, have a lot of power to access data from VPN's based int the States. The user would never know they were being monitored.

Here's a fun fact. When VPN's were first around and before we had the providers of today, countries like Russia and China set up free ones on the web. There was no I.D. and so no one knew who was running them. Of course they read and checked everything!
Folk should get past the term VPN and check out what they are using. There are browsers with free VPN now, and many of them are not true VPN at all.

The term VPN means nothing.

Idk but I feel the s23 is a better value and it can also be found at a cheaper rate. Just my opinion though

I had bought 3 Pixel 8s for my kids through my carrier. Taking one back. My daughter was going through the process of setting it up and I agree with her: customization is pretty bad on the Pixel 8. But when you're used to OneUI, it's probably harder to go vanilla Android on the Pixel 8. So getting her a S23 instead because it's pretty darn cheap right now.

S23 has the better chip hands down pixel has a tensor aka exynos chip so...but at the end of the day people have to decide what matters more to them in the overall package.

Nice channel bro'
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Ive had both, but I personally prefer the pixel, its not a power house like the s23 line, but its plenty for a PHONE. I look at the pixel as the honda civic of phones, affordable, reliable, but mundane. The s23 line is like acura in my opinion. Same chassis, same concepts, but arguably more luxery and faster.

What caméra are you using to film videos?

Thank you my boy, very helpful and very well done. Good quality video. Try and have the phones next to each other more. Bring able to look at them at the same time is helpful.

I had both s23 and Pixel. Both phones are great, but it also comes down to personal preference; Samsung's One UI is a lot more customizable and battery life is pretty solid with its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor. Pixel 8 ( currently using), is a great phone too, no bloatware, the screens peek brightness is higher when you take it outdoors. Battery life probably was the best at first, but once adaptive battery starts working ehich could take a few weeks to learn your patterns, it get a bit better day by day. So it really all depends on your personal needs and wants in a phone.

Very descriptive video🙈

Has anyone collected on user experience on software stability? While taking upgrade, my pixel 6 wiped out twice overnight in my 2 years use. That's the only reason I have moved on to Samsung.

I had a decent reliable run on A series of Samsung, S series, being a superior must have better reliability.

Everything I wanted to know!!! Thank you✌️♥️

S23 doesn't get outdated just because the S24 is coming.
The only evolution the S24 is gonna bring is the LTPO display.
However it will revert to EXynos for Europe, which is a step-back.
The S23 still has 3 years of software support left, which is great and can be found quite cheap nowadays.
Definitely a better value than the Pixel.

Both are great and you'll be happy with either end of story.

I prefer my S23
Samsung Knights 🫡

Great review and comparaison. Gracias!

I get that with the difference of price at the moment of the video the winner is the pixel but, what do you think about s23 256gb at 590 euros? still better choice the pixel?

''BRUTALLY HONEST'', yeah more like ''BRUTALLY BIASED''!!!

Pixel just works for me.. I just like the experience and the value.

What made cell phone companies remove the audio out jack? I like being able to drive an amp directly with audio out instead of Bluetooth.

anyone's pixel 8 looks kinda yellow with night mode off

Currently using the Pixel 8 but I'm having major wi-fi issues that aren't present in any other device in my house. I'm seriously considering returning it and getting the s23 instead. I don't know why google phones always struggle with connectivity...

The S23 is better in every way except camera and software updates. i own an s23, and the battery is perfect.

How do you mute sound on the Google pixel 8?

Fantastic review

Rose or rosee 😂😂😂

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Sadly the Pixel 8 is hot garbage unless you root the phone

Did google pay you or something?
Lol

I had a pixel 8 for a short time. No doubt its a great phone! However, it was too small to type on, I found coming over from an iphone 14 plus a challenge with the size difference. Im curious if anyone else has struggled to type on this phone or is it just me?

In europe the pixel is rare you can't find protetcive glass or a case for it and if you brake the screen you better trow it away its not fixable here ,will cost more than i new phone

My brutally biased review.😅