Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home, the Review Edition, I guess.

I'm Brian McCullough. As I mentioned, Google was generous enough to give me a

phone and a watch to review when I covered the Pixel event last week. So I mean if they

do something like that then I kind of don't need to read other

reviews to you. Having said that I do realize that gadget reviewing is a skill that I

haven't really exercised over my career so I probably am not that great at it. If you want to

look in the show notes I hope to remember to link to reviews from the verge of

both things we're about to talk about. A caveat I want to give up top is obviously I'm someone coming from the Apple ecosystem.

I do like to get my hands on an Android phone every couple of years just so that I can be conversant

with things on the other side of the Great Divide, but you should

clearly understand I'm coming at this from an iOS and iPhone user's perspective, which is why,

after I give you my review, the second half of this episode will be me talking to a regular

Android user to sort of square the perspectives. First up for the reviews let's do the

phone the Pixel 8 Pro. I picked the Pro when Google offered me the option because this is the phone that they say will eventually be able to run their AI models natively on device.

So I wanted to have that option to test that out in the future

whenever they make it possible. Here's another caveat though I've never been a

big phone guy by big phone I mean like the larger phones. I've never gone for the iPhone

maxes which is why I was surprised by how much I like the size of the

Pixel 8 Pro in the hand it's actually noticeably lighter than my iPhone 14 pro not 14 pro max the smaller bigger phone

I've not felt the new supposedly lighter iPhone max 15s as comparison with what is it titanium that they have but the

Pixel 8 Pro feels so good in my hand it's almost making me think about maybe I

should get the bigger phone the next time I

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