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I wish I could say that the aluminum sides and camera bar also had a great finish, but the aluminum still has a mirror polish. Instead of the ultra-shiny glass back, this material has a matte or satiny finish, and it looks gorgeous on our black review unit. The soft-touch glass is grippier than a normal glass back and hides fingerprints a bit better, so we're glad to see it return. We were big fans of that finish, and it's great on the Pixel 8, too. The back panel is a soft-touch glass material that we previously saw on the Pixel Fold.

It's easier to hold the phone without touching the screen. The sides of the phone get to be bigger and flatter in a thinner device, and that greater surface area results in a better grip. The entire surface area of the Pixel 8 Pro display is usable now, so full-screen videos and photos look great. The flat display on the Pixel 8 Pro marks the healing of this self-inflicted wound. It made the display more likely to capture glare, and it made it easier to accidentally touch the sides of the display while holding it, which can stop touchscreens from responding correctly.

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The only thing the curved display accomplished was making the sides of an Android phone distorted and unusable for content, necessitating bigger margins on the sides of the display. There was never a good argument for doing this when all the content in the world-apps, websites, photos, and videos-was meant to be displayed on a flat surface. Samsung's scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could bend a display that they didn't stop to think if they should. Thanks to the huge influence of Samsung's display division, from then on most flagship Android phones had the long edges of their displays curve into the bodies.

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Samsung started the curved display trend back in 2014 when it figured out how to bend OLED displays. First up, Google is finally dumping the years-long failed experiment of curved displays. Google is still making steady improvements to the design that started with the Pixel 6, and the Pixel 8 Pro feels like one of the best hardware designs out there. IP68 dust and water resistance, eSIM, wireless charging, in-screen fingerprint reader USB Type-C 3.1 Gen 1 with 30 W USB-PD 3.0 charging Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.3, GPS, NFC, 5G mmWave & Sub-6 GHz, UWB Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.3, GPS, NFC, 5G mmWave & Sub-6 GHz

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