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| Best Google Pixel 7 & 7 Pro Review |
the best smartphone pixel 7 and 7 Pro might just be the smartphones. I've ever used but they kind of have to be up against Apple. who are now really tightly building both their hardware and their software together to extract the most out of what they have Android has needed a company.
unboxing experience
Chipset Google
Camera Lens
Phone Sit Flat
Antutu Benchmark
Change Wallpapers
who can do the same who can show us what a truly built from the ground up optimized Android experience looks like and that's why it had to add somebody who makes the software to finally show us how now whether you go for the pixel 7 at 599 or the 7 Pro at 899.
unboxing experience
the unboxing experience is about average for 2022 you get the phones on top no charger but hey at least we get a USBC cable and an adapter that's going to help us with fast setup and then for some reason a 140 page manual in both and here we have them pixel 7 and pixel 7 Pro.
so about a week before I switched over to these phones I decided to go back to last year's pixel 6 Pro to see where Google left off and I was still even in 20 22 mostly blown away is this Fantastical software experience that just feels alive.
the phone takes some of the best point-and-click photos. I've ever seen compared to not just 2022 smartphones but even professional cameras and it's all packaged in this slick but distinctive futuristic shell that just screams.
Chipset Google
my name but there's three things that hold it back the chipset Google self-made tensor is pretty underpowered the battery life is mediocre and while the pixel 6 does take astonishing photos the video quality kind of sucks with graininess in every corner.
*android
*google pixal 7 pro
well I'm happy to report that Google has not just fixed all of these key weaknesses with the pixel 7s but on top of that created something so unbelievably good that it's shown me something I didn't even know I wanted so let's start with design.
I'm going to be honest with you when I first picked up these phones I thought to myself what have you done Google the two-tone colors that we had before were more interesting than the flat color options we have now and there was something quite cool and mysterious about how the last phones just had this entire continuous band that was filled with unspecified Google camera magic compared to now where.
Camera Lens
it's a bit more standard like okay this bit here is a camera lens this bit is well empty space but since then the pixel 7s have grown on me quite a lot I've started to appreciate this slightly more rounded Corners the clickier power button button.
how the sides now seamlessly connect to the camera visor on the back as opposed to it feeling like a separate piece and how the back itself is now made of a more scratch resistant glaster last time more than anything.
I'm actually just really really glad that they've kept this visor at all it's a good design Choice it gives your fingers a natural place to rest which isn't on the cameras even in landscape mode when I'm playing games on this phone.
I actually find that I'm using it as an additional way to grip the phone and actually the benefit of it being a matte finish this time makes that action feel a bit less icky not to mention that because the visor is even across the entire back.
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| Best Google Pixel 7 & 7 Pro Review |
Phone Sit Flat
it makes the phone sit flat when resting on a table the only thing that I can't get used to is the fact that the base pixel 7 which has a flat display compared to the curved one on the 7 Pro does feel a little sharp where that screen intersects with the body which is not ideal given.
how much you're going to be swiping across it for gesture controls. the screens themselves are good though you get a full HD panel on the pixel 7 and a larger Quad HD panel on the pro and I'm not actually bothered by the resolution 1080p is plenty.
the only thing that I don't love about the base model is the new simply thicker chin at the bottom it's not terrible but having seen phones for less than 500 that have managed to get even borders all around would have been a nice touch.
but once you get inside the phones that's where things start to get juicy remember the pixel 7 and 7 Pro are the first phones to be powered by Google's second generation tensor chip that's a big deal and yet nowhere has anyone mentioned.
how powerful it is not to worry we'll do it if we pull up a quick geekbench on the pixel 7s you can see that tensor Gen 2 is actually very much neck and neck with Samsung's s22 Ultra and CPU performance which is impressive for two reasons.
one that speed was a serious limiting factor last time and they seemed to have fixed it and two that you're getting this top level performance not just on the 899 pixel 7 Pro but also the 599 pixel 7 and then to test the graphics capability.
Antutu Benchmark
I run the antutu Benchmark which shows us that the GPU within the pixels is about five percent behind Samsung and that if we run the test repeatedly this is the result from my third consecutive run of this antutu benchmark all phones get about as hot as each other.
they all lose about the same amount of performance under sustained loads or in other words if you're a serious mobile gamer then you'll still get better performance on a proper gaming phone but at the same time.
it is a massive relief that we finally got enough power that it doesn't feel compromised you can still pull up even the most heavyweight games Android has to offer like Apex Legends Genji and impact and pretty much max out the settings.
but this tensor G2 chip is not just about gaming in fact I don't think Google mentioned gaming in their entire presentation the key things that they focused on are how it benefits the day-to-day software experience.
how it benefits the camera and these are no joke the two best things about the pixel 7s for one the improved AI Core added to it can make your phone better able to understand your voice I've tested this by the way and compared to the iPhone accuracy is definitely a grade above even nailing.
the punctuation I've tried talking quietly I've tried talking really loud same result and so that's already quite a a big deal if your phone can understand your voice better then that means you're going to have better comms with your voice assistant.
you're going to be able to send messages faster. you're going to be able to translate things more accurately but there's actually so many more times while using the software. where I've just felt to myself wow Google has put some real care into this for example.
Change Wallpapers
how you can change wallpapers in one tap from the home screen how the status bar matches the exact curvature of the phone's physical borders making it feel like software that was designed around the hardware.
how they always on display clock gently transitions into the lock screen clock how they've sped up the fingerprint scanner and created this subtle blend of soft vibrations and sounds to make it feel like you're pressing a real button.
how simple the whole thing is how they give you everything you need to transfer your stuff quickly from your old phone. how it comes with just the bare minimum apps installed with new bloatware and how it shows you demo videos of any feature that might be a little bit confusing.
the stuff like this makes it so much easier to recommend to the less techy people that I know how accessible the phone is how it caters for the hard of hearing with live caption of literally anything that you can see on your phone. so this is it. thank you for reading this artical.
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