Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro review: True vision of AI underlying smartphones

Artificial intelligence has been the pitch for many an app and hardware for quite some time now. In varying degrees, the promise follows through with results. It is often subjective too, with specific utility as the definer. But none, at least among smartphones, has wrapped itself as comfortably and definitely in AI as Google’s new Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel 8 phones.

From the outset, as a generational change would demand, they are better than the phones they succeed. They have to, as they’re more expensive. Also, more mature. Google’s big bets already give us a vision of looming goalposts. There’s a reason why we say the goalposts are still some distance over the horizon as we approach it. And not, a here-and-now scenario. That’s because, in addition to what’s already here, more incoming AI features are expected in a few weeks.