I regret buying my pixel 8 pro 256 GB
I regret getting my Pixel 8 Pro 256GB.
Why?
1) Charging Speed:
Especially when my device is warmer, the charging speed reduces drastically. I'm talking about 30 minutes for 10%. In general, the charging speed is too slow. Sometimes it charges really fast, sometimes it takes 10 minutes for 1%!!!
No, I don’t use optimized charging.
2) Idle Battery Drain:
Even when I don’t use my phone, the battery drain is insane. I’m talking -70% in 7 hours, with 2 hours of screen time. That’s too much.
And no, I don’t want to turn on airplane mode all the time.
3) Overheating:
It gets constantly too hot, so it throttles the processor, which leads to lags.
4) Camera Processing:
The picture looks perfect in the preview, but the finished picture looks incredibly bad.
Especially food just doesn’t look tasty.
5) Videos:
Videos are never smooth out of the box. They freeze, stutter, etc.
I feel like I need to watch a baby using this phone, planning charging pauses, and always carrying a power bank.
I’m currently in China and I need my phone for absolutely everything, all the time. I know I’m demanding a lot (VPN, 8+ hours of screen time daily, 200+ pictures a day, a lot of videos), but my friends don’t have these problems on their phones.
And all the relevant "cool" Pixel features are available for everyone on Android (circle to search, etc.).
I feel like in this sub, nobody actually uses the phone for more than 2 hours per day and therefore never has these problems.
I’m seriously thinking about trying out an iPhone for the first time in my life.
Is this normal?