Google Pixel 7 Review 2024: The Great Flagship Screen Size
Pixel 7 may be the best smartphone you’ve ever used. Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 6 look the same. Not only are they the same price, but how can a phone launched in 2021 and one launched in 2022 be the same, even though the Pixel 7 has major hardware upgrades?
Pixel 7 builds on Google’s computational professional photography expertise to capture sharp images while offering new features like Photo Unblur to rescue blurry shots. There is also a new cinematic blur feature for videos. Powered by the Tensor G2 chip as the processor, it offers other new experiences and capabilities for the Pixel 7 line.
Pros
Cons
- Compact and friendly design
- Bright display
- Excellent $599 starting price
- Overall good image quality with the signature Pixel look
- Good battery life
- The ultra-wide camera is still not wide enough
- Some camera quirks and shutter lag
- Not very inspiring performance-wise
Google Pixel 7 Release Date And Price
Google Pixel 7 was officially announced on October 6, 2022, at the annual Made by Google event and was released in the United States on October 13.
The price of the device starts from USA $599 / UK £449, as Google correctly mentioned. The iPhone 14 starts at $699 in the US. So if you choose Google, you can get a comparable flagship at a lower price of $100. The older Galaxy S20 is still available from Samsung at $699, but it’s $100 more than Google’s phone. The Pixel 7 has additional configurations, with the 256GB model starting at $699 in the United States.
Google Pixel 7 Specifications:
- Body: 155.6 x 73.2 x 8.7 mm, 197gm, Aluminum frames, Corning Gorilla Glass Victus, IP68 dust/water resistant
- Display: 6.3-inches OLED panel, 90Hz refresh rate, Corning Gorilla Glass Victus
- Other Properties: Up to 1,000 nits brightness (HDR), Up to 1,400 nits (peak)
- Color Options: Obsidian (Black), Snow (Silver), Lemongrass (Light Green)
- Resolution: FHD+ (2400 x 1080 pixels), 416 PPI, 20:9 aspect ratio
- Connectivity: Dual-SIM (Single Nano + eSIM), WiFi 6E a/b/g/n/ac/ax (Dual-band), Bluetooth 5.2, GPS / AGPS / Galileo / Glonass / QZSS, USB-C port, NFC, 4G LTE (VoLTE), 5G
- Memory: 8GB LPDDR5 RAM, 128/256GB UFS 3.1 storage (fixed)
- Software & UI: Android 13
- Rear Camera: Dual (with dual LED flash);
– Wide: 50 MP, f/1.9, 25mm (wide), 1/1.31″, 1.2µm, Dual Pixel PDAF, Laser AF, OIS
– Ultrawide: 12MP, f/2.2, 114° FoV
– Spectral and flicker sensor - Front Camera: 10.8MP, f/2.2 sensor, 92.8° FoV
- Audio: Built-in stereo speakers, 3 microphones, Noise suppression, No 3.5mm headphone jack
- Security: In-display fingerprint sensor (optical)
- Chipset: Google Tensor G2 5G (5nm mobile platform),
- CPU: Octa-core:
– 2x Cortex-X1 (2.85 GHz)
– 2x Cortex-A78 (2.35 GHz)
– 4x Cortex-A55 (1.80 GHz) - GPU: Arm Mali-G710 MP7
- Sensors: Accelerometer, Ambient light, Barometer, Gyrometer, Magnetometer, Proximity
- Battery: 4355mAh with up to 20W fast charging (no power adapter provided)
Google Pixel 7 Design & Colors
When I first saw these phones, I thought to myself, “Google, what are you doing?” The two-tone colors we had earlier were more attractive than the flat color options we have now.
And there was something quite cool and mysterious about how the last phones had this whole continuous band that was filled with unspecified Google Camera magic, whereas now it’s a little more standard, like, well, this bit here is a camera lens. This bit is, well, space. But since then, the Pixel 7 has grown on me a lot.
I’m starting to appreciate the slightly more rounded corners, the clickier power button, how the sides now seamlessly connect to the rear camera visor, as opposed to feeling like it’s a separate piece, and how the back is now made of more scratch-resistant plaster than last time. More than anything, I’m glad they kept this visor at all. This is a good design choice.
This gives your fingers a natural place to rest, which other cameras don’t have. Even in landscape mode, when you play games on this phone, you’ll find it useful as an extra way to hold the phone. And indeed, the benefit of having a matte finish this time makes that action feel a little less icky.
Not to mention that because the visor even covers the entire back, it makes the phone lie flat when resting on a table.
Speaking of colors, the Pixel 7 colors have been revealed as black, white, and an attractive new lemongrass color. All the great-looking Pixel 7 has Corning’s tough and very scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass Victus on both the front and back, and it’s also equipped with a fingerprint-resistant coating, which helps it retain its pristine appearance as long as you play with it. Why not?
Google Pixel 7 Display
The 6.3-inch AMOLED display on the Pixel 7 and the 6.4-inch AMOLED display on the Pixel 6 have a 0.1-inch difference. But the aspect where I genuinely think the Pixel 7 could have done better is in the display department.
But more importantly, it only refreshes at 90Hz. And because of this, I did not find the Pixel 7 to be as smooth as I had hoped.
So yeah, Google should have given a 120Hz refresh rate here, just like the Pro model for that added fluidity. The overall quality of the display is good though, if not flagship level good. The peak brightness is now at 1400 nits, so it’s plenty bright.
HDR10 Plus works really well on all streaming platforms, and the color accuracy is also appreciable. I am also enjoying typing on this thing, which is partly because of how good the haptic feedback is.
Google Pixel 7 Camera
The Pixel 7 has two cameras: a 50-megapixel main one and a 12-megapixel ultrawide. And I think you could make a pretty strong argument that there is no better camera system available for less than $600.
Step one of that is photo processing. When you take a photo on the Pixel 7 and open it up, you’ll always notice that it spends a second or two processing that image. Every phone does this to some extent, but there is no phone that improves the result as much as this can.
It’s gotten to the stage now where the processing is so good that I’ve just come to trust the Pixel 7. I trust that even though things may not necessarily look the best in the camera preview when I click that shutter button, the phone will figure it out.
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I am Tahir Alvi, a technology enthusiast with a keen interest in smartphones and gadgets. I provide suggestions to help you avoid problems while buying and using your phone. Outside of work, I enjoy exploring innovative apps and tackling everyday technological challenges.
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