The good stuff:
- great looks and feels great in your hand (excellent quality feel)
- excellent screen
- always fresh and in active development directly from original Android source
- best camera on the market
Neutral:
- speed is very slowly improving (if at all)
- not many extras in the packaging (e.g., no wall power adapter)
- I like bit smaller phones in general (Pixel 5 was an ideal size for me)
- AI emphasized too much (and not used at all by me). Hopefully AI is not using any resources while supposedly idle.
Don't like:
- Slow or troublesome START and RESTART, frequently having to keep pressing the START button for 20 secs or so. I had experience with Pixel 4, 5, 6a, and 7 and never had that experience (UPDATE: This seems to be no problem any longer after an update)
- No instructions of any kind in the box, although it's rather intuitive once you start the new phone
- No physical SIM card slot for the US customers (only, so-called, eSIM from your service provider). A bit unnerving since my phones were usually successfully fixed or transferred to a different service in the past by changing of SIM cards -- it will take a decade or so of trouble-free experience to forget about that small card
- For some reason, turning off Bluetooth (for us who don't use it very often) requires a post-doctoral degree (Bluetooth turns itself ON automatically after some time)
Note: I use Google Fi service.