PGrey
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Hmm, was here looking for something else and realized no one responded to this part.
The P8P is the BEST phone camera I've ever had (DXOMark thinks so still, too, was at #3 or 2 for quite a while) bar none, and by a BIG margin. It gets the focus perfect or near-perfect I'd say 90-95% of the time, the colors are super accurate, and low light pics are usually good to great-surprising-they-came-out-at-all, IME. The ability of the super-zoom is shocking, too, in that I never thought I'd use digital zoom (I still don't use it much, habit I suppose, but when I do I'm almost always pleasantly surprised).
Take a look at phone-pic comparisons, say to the latest S-series, or the OP, it's usually close or better than the S24 setups, and smokes the latest OP, the pages with big pic comparisons are very telling.
The fingerprint reader is sucky, particularly if you use a screen protector (yeah, I'm in that camp, always have been probably always will be).
The P8P has vastly better reception than the P6P IME as well, urban areas that were dead zones are now fine, and some rural areas where I've failed to get signal are now decent dBm values, when I check them (someone else is driving), so I'd call that a win, too. It looks like the new P9 series will be (possibly) better in this area, but I have very few complaints, things like "someone else's phone has signal and mine doesn't" aren't a thing with the P8P, IME.
The P8P is the BEST phone camera I've ever had (DXOMark thinks so still, too, was at #3 or 2 for quite a while) bar none, and by a BIG margin. It gets the focus perfect or near-perfect I'd say 90-95% of the time, the colors are super accurate, and low light pics are usually good to great-surprising-they-came-out-at-all, IME. The ability of the super-zoom is shocking, too, in that I never thought I'd use digital zoom (I still don't use it much, habit I suppose, but when I do I'm almost always pleasantly surprised).
Take a look at phone-pic comparisons, say to the latest S-series, or the OP, it's usually close or better than the S24 setups, and smokes the latest OP, the pages with big pic comparisons are very telling.
The fingerprint reader is sucky, particularly if you use a screen protector (yeah, I'm in that camp, always have been probably always will be).
The P8P has vastly better reception than the P6P IME as well, urban areas that were dead zones are now fine, and some rural areas where I've failed to get signal are now decent dBm values, when I check them (someone else is driving), so I'd call that a win, too. It looks like the new P9 series will be (possibly) better in this area, but I have very few complaints, things like "someone else's phone has signal and mine doesn't" aren't a thing with the P8P, IME.
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