 What's good everyone, my name is Jocelyn Jay, but you could just call me Jocelyn and in today's video I'm really excited to unbox and experience my first ever Android phone which is the Google Pixel 8 Pro and as a software engineer that's a bit weird to say because I think there's about 50-50 split between Android and iOS users, maybe 60-40 leaning towards honestly I have no clue. Depending on what type of developer you are like if you're full stack dev more of your developer peers will be using Android and if you're fun and developer you'll notice that most people are iOS because you're typically working more closely with designers. Anyways let's just get into the unboxing. So this is my first Android phone like I mentioned and my first unboxing in a while so honestly this is as raw as it gets. I even finally utilize like my two camera setup system. So we have the typical like paper packaging so I'm always down for things being more sustainable especially we're gonna like end up throwing these boxes out anyways right and then on the back you can see here that it says Team Pixel. Okay wow so what I think is interesting with Pixel one this phone already has some dust on it but it looks so good like I used to think that this visor was a bit weird but starting to grow on me even though it still looks like a bell buckle with a webcam so one thing I think is interesting between I guess the Pixel Pro models and the iPhone Pro models is there's only one size for a Pixel Pro versus iPhone you have multiple sizes which I prefer but nonetheless this is a really good looking phone alright so this this feels so familiar this feels so familiar to Apple I will say one thing I like about this packaging more there's these icons on the cover it tells you what the power button is and the volume buttons and then how to use your fingerprint to unlock your phone and of course USB-C alright so that was I don't want to say oh wow look at all these fingerprints it's almost like sweat marks a little warm in here but I don't want to say anti-climatic and then what else do we have here so this top compartment okay just instructions does anyone read instructions in 2023 we have the charger this is like an adapter alright let's move that out of the way so I actually got this phone unlocked like this just feels so different I'm gonna power it on nice little vibration sensation to let you know it's on I like that little animation powered by Android I don't know I still gotta get used to that I definitely gotta get used to that there's this really cool like bouncing animation and I could feel the vibration whatever like a lips or whatever bounces on top of this like oval shape I can't even describe I could definitely tell this phone attracts a lot of dust like debris hey Google make a call hey Google hey Google remind me to water my plants every Monday I actually could use that as a as a Google reminder like no cap I definitely could anything else identify music around me that's dope having like Shazam built into my phone super clutch as I mentioned earlier everything about this experience with Android is new to me from the unboxing to setting up my phone with Google Phi setting up Google Phi via eSIM is supposed to be really simple I think the Pixel 8 Pro having dual SIM is a really nice feature so if you're unsure about keeping the phone don't want to commit to a cellular plan you can go the eSIM route if you want to have a physical SIM card you can do that too took me a minute to realize that I couldn't do the entire eSIM setup on my Pixel Pro 8 so I had to sign up for an account on the Google Phi wireless website then link the Gmail account to the Google Phi app on my phone and voila your boys got cellular just like that next thing I did was send my first Android text message I'll never get used to these green bubbles or the fact that I have to hope my message actually delivered alright so today is the first day that I'm gonna be using the Google Pixel 8 Pro as my main driver so we're about to get a workout in from a workout I'm really just gonna be switching between Spotify, YouTube, Lifetime app and maybe the Strong app I actually forgot to download the Lifetime app one thing I noticed that I do a lot while using this phone because I'm so used to iOS is being able to swipe down and search for apps instead I have to is it swipe up no swipe up is the same that allows me to toggle between my active apps but I have to click the search bar that allows me to simultaneously do a Google search and search for apps which I think is pretty cool like if and when I switch back to my iPhone as my main driver it'll be weird not being able to do both because it is really convenient I just realized that you can access your apps by swiping up but you swipe from the middle which now seems so obvious like I should have so this is the official New York City Google Pixel 8 Pro camera test we're gonna see what kind of footage we can get during a golden hour in terms of the display I've enjoyed it a lot with adaptive brightness toggle on so I had no trouble viewing my screen outside I also had smooth display on which raises the refresh rate from 60 to 120 Hertz based on the content I'm viewing the pixel 8 Pro is bright I haven't noticed much of a difference compared to the 15 Pro the colors do look a bit cooler than on the iPhone I've had no trouble interacting with the display just getting used to the pixel gestures which aren't that different from my iOS in terms of normal day-to-day stuff I'm using it with one hand browsing the internet interacting with some of my favorite apps I've had a pretty pleasant experience the battery life is solid I use the phone pretty frequently throughout the day started out with about 85% of charge yesterday and woke up this morning with 15% so that's pretty impressive one thing I notice is that the pixel 8 Pro battery usage screen is much more insightful than the iPhones showing me both my screen time percentage of usage and background time after doing a few video tests during golden hour we wanted to shoot a couple pictures to see how the camera would do in a semi low light environment the pixel 8 Pro pictures have cooler tone I'm not sure if that's because of the display but it's almost like there's a filter baked into the camera but it still did a solid job with preserving the highlights and exposing me well I also noticed that the photos are a bit more sharp than I'm used to but it did an excellent job of focusing on me now in the selfie mode I don't think it looks the best in low light environments but the Sun was pretty much down and we're in a small park surrounded by buildings however I was very impressed with the voice enhancement mode so I'm testing out the speech enhancement mode right now and also the low light it's pretty good like right now we're at 14th Street in Union so we're in the park right now at Union Square Park and there's no like natural sunlight coming in because of the buildings it's also golden hour and because of the trees I'm also testing out the speech enhancement mode so I'm curious to see what this sounds like once I start editing one of my favorite features of the pixel 8 Pro and I couldn't wait to get my hands on is the AI eraser and this photo the AI recognizes people in the background and provides a widget to remove them after selecting the widget it outlines people to remove after selecting all it actually did a solid job in the top left corner but directly right of me it looks a little weird and smudgy I do think this picture was a tricky one for the magic eraser to remove people in the background or objects but I think this feature is really powerful and can only get better with updates overall from this small sample size of using the pixel 8 Pro it's been a good experience getting used to texting and being in an all iPhone group chat remains to be seen but I think the video and photography quality is good and typical interactions with the app feel more similar to the iPhone than I anticipated if you like this video be sure to give it a thumbs up and tell me what you think about the Google Pixel 8 Pro until next time stay blessed peace