Google Pixel 7-5G Android Phone - Unlocked Smartphone with Wide Angle Lens and 24-Hour Battery - 256GB - Obsidian

Before into the Pixel 7, I have been using an iPhone12 mini for 2 years. And a Samsung Note 9 before that. Why I chose the iPhone12 mini? Because I wanted a real compact phone. And Why I bought the Pixel 7 now? Well, 1. I want better battery life. 2. I want bigger screen for games and for navigation. 3. IOS just bored me. So, I got the Pixel 7 lemongrass 256g for 599$ and have been using it for a week now. And here are my opinions. In short words, if you have been using Android and want an upgrade now, I really recommend Pixel 7, mainly because it gives you good software experience and decent camera at a very fair price. Exterior & comfort: The color lemon grass is special and I like it. The visor camera bump looks unique and kinda cool in my opinion. The rounded edge makes the phone comfortable to hold. HOWEVER, there are some cons. 1. The bump and the glass back make it awkward to place on any flat surface. 2. The bump is a huge dust collector. 3. Although the edge of the flat screen has a bit of curve, the transition to the metal frame is not good, which means the touch of the edge areas feels a bit cheap, definitely not comparable to Note 9. Overall, I think the look is unique but comes with some sacrifices, and the build quality is fairly good for the price. Operating System: This is the first time I use the so called "pure" Android. Compared to Samsung's OneUI, the OS on Pixel 7 feels more like Apple's iOS actually. It doesn't have as many customization functions as OneUI and is simpler to use. Kinda like iOS, but in a different style, well, the kinda nerdy Google style. If you like it you like it. Some special Google AI features are cool, but should not be the only reason for anyone to buy this phone in my opinion. I haven't experienced many bugs. Actually, only one when switching between bluetooth audio devices that really bothers me a bit. Overall, I like the system, and I think it is good for anyone but people who have only used iPhone before. Camera: Pixel has always been famous for its camera capabilities. I must say it is true on Pixel 7. It takes very decent photos no matter the light conditions, and the shoot experience is simple and natural. Is it as good or better as flagship phones like iPhone 14 pro? I don't know, maybe not. But as someone who uses a dedicated camera for street photography, I think the camera on Pixel 7 is more than capable to take nice looking daily photos and capture those little moments into good memories. When it comes to video, it is also good, especially considering the price, but iPhone is better. And I mean iPhone 12 mini. So overall, the camera is very good. Battery life: Not much to say here since I don't bother to do any "tests" and have no numbers. But based on my feeling, it is good, but not as good as I expected considering the battery capacity. It will last you a full day (8 hours) or more if you use it lightly. But it is no way a two-day or 1.5 day battery life. Gaming: Gaming is trash. At least for pubg mobile. It is probably due to software issue (not optimized for Tensor chip) rather than lack of raw performance. But if you play a lot of 3D mobile games, avoid this one. Conclusion: Decent phone for the price. Actually, even for the normal price ($100 more than what I spent), it is still more than decent. If you don't want to spend that much on a phone (which is a terribly stupid trend in my opinion), this is the phone for you. Don't look at iPhone SE, that thing is a joke.

I got my Pixel 7 a few days ago from Amazon and I have to say I'm impressed. I'm upgrading from a OnePlus 6T, so keep that in mind when reading my review. I haven't had any problems. powering it up the first time and transferring all my data from my old phone worked like a charm (better than on my wife's Pixel 6A, which had a couple of glitches during the process). Setup took a while, mainly because I have a ton of apps that I needed to sign on to. I've got almost everything done now, except for the most annoying apps (Okta verify, I'm looking at you). The only issue I had during setup was turning WiFi calling on--it failed twice, then I realized the bad reception in my basement was to blame. When I did it from my living room, where reception is good, it turned on without a problem. In daily use, the phone has worked flawlessly. Face unlock is fast (albeit not as secure as a fingerprint because it only uses the regular camera, unlike on the iPhone). The fingerprint reader has yet to fail to recognize my finger, and it's faster than the one on my old OnePlus. The phone feels snappier than my old one, particularly when running certain apps that slowed down my old phone (Instacart, for example). The screen is a beauty--coming from a 60Hz screen, 90Hz is a noticeable upgrade and feels buttery smooth. It's bright enough to use easily in direct sunlight. The camera is very good, from what I can tell. Definitely way better than my old phone's. I haven't taken many night or low-light shots yet, but everything else has come out looking great. I know the Pixel 6 was glitchy and, in some cases, got buggier as time went on. Fingers crossed this won't happen with the 7, but so far so good. Overall, I can't believe the amount of stuff the phone has to offer for the price, particularly with the $100 gift card pre-order offer. It's a flagship phone for a mid-tier price. I was considering getting an iPhone 13, but opted for the Pixel 7 because of the lower price. I'm glad I made that choice, as that extra $$$ comes in handy these days. Edit to add that the battery life is good, but not great. It lasts through a whole day of moderate to heavy use and has about 20% left at the end of the day.

I'm coming off a Galaxy S10 and before that an LG G6. I've also purchased Samsung A51 and S20 FE's for my parents. To get the negatives out of way. Side or rear mounted finger print sensors are so much more consistent. Samsung also provides a lot of applications that can be pretty nice like their SoundAssistant app where I can change how the volume button increments/decrements. Using the Firefox app, I can do screenshots that scroll the page on the Samsungs while on this Pixel Mozilla needs to update their app to implement the Google API to support scrolling screenshots and there are probably other apps that I would be able to do scrolling+stitched screenshots on the Samsungs but not this Pixel. There are other things like more options in the long press context menus that make doing things faster on the Samsung compared to the Google Pixels. Default launcher on the Pixel has this full width data/weather/info widget that you can't remove. It only takes up a little less than a third of the width of the screen. It is a waste of space. If I need the date, I just swipe open the notification menu. Weather, I used the Google weather widget on my Samsung Galaxy but the smallest one that takes up like 2 horizontal app icon widths so I can fit 2 more icons on the row. The button to clear all in the task switcher, you have to swipe all the way to left end rather than just having it always there as a lower row under the application windows. Annoying Every default launcher these days do gestures for going back and opening the app/multitasking switcher. I've tried for years and always go back to enabling the bottom menu with the back, home, and task switcher buttons. Gaming and emulation performance on the Qualcomm based Samsungs are a lot better. Samsung provides 1 more year of support compared to Google. Honestly almost everything is better with a Samsung phone than a Pixel. But they are expensive. If I do get into phone games and emulation more though, I'll probably go back to a Qualcomm based Samsung device unless the future AMD GPU Exynos Tensor have drivers as mature and with application developer support like Qualcomm chipsets do. Outside of all that, aesthetically it looks really nice. They made the buttons in the notification menu way bigger (slower to use than the industrial looking small icons in the Samsung default launcher). Only fits 4 quick actions before having to swipe down fully to get 8 quick actions - swipe left/right for more. For some reason google combined the wi-fi and mobile networks toggle into one so you have to click it, then click the radio button to turn off the wi-fi. Some of the notification collapsing into applications make some app notification utilities more annoying to use to The fingerprint reader. You may have to redo your fingerprints a couple times to get it well responsive. It's good for me now. Still fails far more often than my previous phones. End up having to use pattern unlock. Google lens is nice. Fast to get to do the camera point at stuff and it translates. Could already do that with the Google Translate app on any phone. I'm happy with the battery life. I know it's better on the S23. I've gotten used to this 6.3" disaplay. Not sure if I'd prefer a 6.1" display. Phone is real smooth besides games. Tried DraStic, Citra, and Tower of Fantasy. Tower of Fantasy performance is not great. DraStic and Citra have surprisingly crashed on me. I was thinking I would hype this phone up compared to Samsung phones but it hasn't worked out that way. The main thing is really the aesthetics of the phone. I suppose the camera is nice and faster but I have Sony A7III and for photos compositions matter more than gear. I'm not blown away by camera performance compared to a S10E or what I see from people with iPhones and newer Galaxy phones. Low light performance is definitely miles of an upgrade over an S10E. Still, photography is all about composition and lighting and what you do in Darktable/Lightroom. I miss the 3.5mm port. I use bluetooth in the car for a different device so I needed 3.5mm adapter to connect audio to my car. At home my bluetooth audio is a class D amplifier and over ear Sony noice cancelling headphones. Sometimes I'm laying down and just want to put on some 3.5mm earbuds. I need another USB-C to 3.5mm adapter so I don't have to keep remembering to carry the one in my car everywhere. I don't think I'll get over the loss of 3.5mm jacks because of how much audio equipment I have. I'm never buying those Google Airpod knockoffs nor the Samsung ones. After having this phone for a month and then writing this review, I don't notice the visual UI aesthetics anymore. It's not truly a plus for me anymore. I've gotten over it. It's a good phone but Samsung does an extra year of major OS and security updates over Google. The Google Tensor is already not as good as Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 let alone the 8 Gen 2. I can wait one year and potentially buy the 1 year old Galaxy phone with a better chipset for the price of a new Pixel. Buying this 256GB version for $600 when the Samsung S23 was going for $800 is nice though Wanted to overall positive with the review. Still really good phone because modern phones are all overall hit all the basics - even the cheap phones. If the future Tensor processors with AMD GPUs aren't competitive with Samsungs in gaming/emulation support, the only reason I'd be buying a Pixel is the price.

I've had this Google Pixel 7 phone now for about 8 months, after having used Samsung phones for years. The #1 best thing if you switch from Samsung is the absence of all that bloatware, those apps you never use and can't uninstall either. This phone saves so much memory by just not having those apps, and it makes it easier to sort through the apps you do have and find the one you need quickly and efficiently. Huge relief, and that's probably the #1 reason I wouldn't go back to Samsung. Photography is my hobby and for the first time this year, I did not use my SLR camera at all. I feel bad but the camera on this phone was versatile enough for my purposes! Picture quality is excellent. The magic eraser feature in editing is quite a game changer. The fact that the phone saves photos directly to your Google drive is also nice though sharing pics to social media from there isn't that straightforward. I do it all the time but I haven't figured out how to post multiple pics without them appearing in backward order. The biggest negative for the Google Pixel 7 phone is that I need to charge it just about every day. Keep in mind that I don't use it for gaming or listening to music or watching videos. I literally just use it to text, call, google stuff, occasionally for social media, and maps if I'm driving which isn't every day. Even so, I have to charge it approximately every 30 hours. This is the one thing they need to change on this phone. I have a 2022 model and it looks like I'll be getting updates until 2026 which gives them enough time to work on that! The other thing is that fingerprint recognition rarely works. When it does seem to work, I think it's actually the facial recognition thing that comes on at the same time that's opening the phone. Facial recognition works great fortunately. Oh, and just for kicks: the feature I like best that the phone comes with is "Now Playing" that identifies what song is currently playing. I put it on my home screen so that I don't have to switch on my phone to activate it. Just a light touch and it tells me what the mystery song I'm hearing in a cafe or on the radio is. My 20-yr-old nephew who is an iPhone user was actually envious of this feature! It's not an app -- it's just a feature that appears in Settings>Sound. To summarize: do I like this phone and would I recommend it? A resounding yes. Should battery life be improved? Also a resounding yes.

Great phone. Still have it. Still stylish and snappy. I had the battery replaced once. Maybe picture quality can't compete with newer phones lately, but overall great phone. Bought it on 2023

I've been using this phone for about a month now. This phone feels like worse quality than my 4 year old Pixel. I bought it to upgrade to a newer model that would be in better condition with a better camera. The battery life is fine so far but (1) this did not even come with any useful charging cables. I had to order something entirely new/separate just to charge it. It came with a cable with two USBC ends and no wall block. What current wall block would have a USBC port? Why not include a cable with a USB end? I already felt like this was a red flag. (2) The phone camera really isn't any better than my old pixel which was a hand me down that I acquired in 2019. So I spent over $600 for little to no camera upgrade that didn't even include a means for charging. (3) The biometric unlock NEVER WORKS despite taking over ten finger print samples. It's infuriating. (4) No matter how many times I reset problematic apps like Google Wallet, it just automatically turns back on which frankly sketches me TF out. There is NO WAY TO TURN IT OFF PERMANENTLY. I sell my own products using a Square reader so anytime my phone gets close to a payment system, it automatically pulls up my Google Wallet WHICH I HAVE TRIED TO TURN OFF/DISABLE MULTIPLE TIMES. I have never once actually wanted/needed to use it yet it's so sensitive that it pops up on my screen almost constantly when I'm out and about. (5) This phone is so big I can't even enter my passcode to unlock (BC the biometric login NEVER WORKS) because my thumbs aren't long enough to reach across the screen. (6) I'm also logged into Spotify and use it all the time, yet when I set my alarm to a spotify station, the alarm always defaults back to the annoying and abrasive alarm that sounds like a nuclear meltdown alarm and reads 'not logged into spotify'. Even though I open the spotify app and it it logged in. I also set my default alarm to a different sound that doesn't give me a heart attack, yet it always automatically defaults back to the alarm I don't want to be using. Don't even get my started on google photos' storage and backing up. Basically the apps are garbage on this phone and it's not even remotely an upgrade in terms of hardware. Overpriced, useless and a huge regretful purchase. What I would give to just have my old phone back.

I've been using Pixel 7 since November and have to say this is a quality device. I use this for nearly everything and would describe myself as a power user. I game on this (CoD Mobile/Apex/Supercell games/Among Us/Ninja Turtles/etc..) and they have all worked great for me so far, no issues. I hadn't been much of a mobile gamer for a while but playing on this has re-ignited that and made it enjoyable again. The pictures are amazing and the smart features/overall aesthetic of android 13 are as good as they've ever been. I use this thing for playing music and movies they all work great, casting to other devices is seamless (especially for youtube and apps that support it) and bluetooth has never had a single issue. It works great with Android auto (where you get to see just how amazing google assistant can be), google pay and wallet. I also have my full work profile setup and automated to turn on during the workday as well as a bedtime routine with customized DnD. The now playing feature showing what's playing around you even while locked is amazing. I don't see myself ever going back to another phone. The fingerprint scanner is not as good as previous versions and the battery life leave some to be desired. Other than that I have zero complaints about this thing.

I recently purchased the Google Pixel 7 5G (Unlocked), and I must say, this phone exceeded all my expectations. From the sleek design to the powerful performance, Google has truly refined the Pixel experience to perfection. Here’s my detailed review: Design & Build Quality - 9/10 The Pixel 7 has a premium feel with its aluminum frame and Gorilla Glass Victus on both the front and back. It looks and feels sleek and modern, with a slightly curved design that fits perfectly in the hand. The signature camera bar is a standout, giving the Pixel a unique and instantly recognizable look. The IP68 rating ensures water and dust resistance, which is a great plus! Display - 9.5/10 The 6.3-inch OLED display is absolutely stunning! With a 2400x1080 resolution and a 90Hz refresh rate, everything looks sharp, vibrant, and smooth. The colors are rich, blacks are deep (thanks to OLED technology), and the brightness is strong enough for outdoor use. While it’s not a 120Hz panel like some flagships, 90Hz still feels fluid for everyday use. Performance - 10/10 Powered by Google’s Tensor G2 chip and 8GB RAM, this phone is a beast in terms of speed and efficiency. Multitasking is seamless, and apps launch instantly. Whether I’m playing demanding games, editing photos, or switching between apps, the Pixel 7 never lags. Plus, Google’s AI optimizations make the experience feel even smoother. Camera - 10/10 If you love photography, the Pixel 7’s camera is one of the best in the business. The 50MP main sensor captures stunningly detailed photos, even in low light, thanks to Night Sight. The 12MP ultra-wide camera is great for capturing more in a single frame. Google’s computational photography is unmatched, with features like: ✅ Magic Eraser – Remove unwanted objects from photos. ✅ Real Tone – Ensures accurate skin tones. ✅ Cinematic Blur – Adds professional-style background blur to videos. ✅ Super Res Zoom – Delivers sharp images even without a dedicated telephoto lens. Battery Life - 9/10 With its 4,355mAh battery, the Pixel 7 easily lasts a full day on moderate to heavy use. Thanks to Google’s Adaptive Battery, it learns your usage patterns to extend battery life even further. 30W fast charging and wireless charging support are great additions, though the charger is not included in the box. Software & Features - 10/10 Being a Google phone, the Pixel 7 gets Android updates first and has a clean, bloat-free Android 13 experience. Some of my favorite features include: ✔️ Call Screening – Google Assistant answers and filters spam calls. ✔️ Live Translate – Real-time translations in multiple languages. ✔️ Face Unlock + Fingerprint Scanner – Fast and secure authentication. ✔️ Exclusive Pixel Features – New AI features and Google Assistant enhancements. Connectivity & 5G - 9/10 Since this Pixel 7 is unlocked, it works with any carrier (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, etc.), including international SIM cards. 5G speeds are blazing fast, ensuring smooth streaming, gaming, and browsing. Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 also enhance connectivity. Final Verdict - 9.5/10 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Google Pixel 7 5G is an outstanding smartphone that delivers flagship-level performance at a great price. It excels in photography, speed, software experience, and AI-powered features, making it one of the best Android phones available. If you want pure Android, the best camera, and guaranteed updates, this is the phone to get! ✅ Pros: ✔️ Premium design & build ✔️ Excellent camera system ✔️ Fast & smooth performance ✔️ Clean Android experience with 5 years of updates ✔️ Long battery life & wireless charging ✔️ Works with all carriers (unlocked) ❌ Cons: ✖️ None Would I recommend it? Absolutely! If you’re considering a high-quality, unlocked phone that works on any carrier, the Pixel 7 5G is a fantastic choice. Google has truly crafted an Android masterpiece! 💯🔥