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  • 16 Jan 2023

Red Eye, 15 Jan 2023Not so much an opinion, but a few questions about the Pixel... moreThe Pixel 7 will not have 5G or VoLTE if used in a country where it was not officially released or if you happen to travel to a country where Pixel phones were never officially released.

You'll have to make do with 3G or 2G for calls (which isn't as good as VoLTE or VoWifi). 4G mobile data works, but no 5G or VoLTE/HD calls for as long as you are in an unsupported country.

If you are OK with no 5G and no VoLTE (I'm assuming you live in an unsupported country), then the Pixel 7 is the BEST phone on your list given your priority features (best camera, battery, software smoothness and timely and long update support). Don't worry about battery life. The battery life is great. It lasts a more than a day under moderate to heavy use with 4G/3G mobile data or Wifi. I have no experience though how it performs if you are connected exclusively to a 5G network because Pixels are unsupported in my country.

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    • 16 Jan 2023

    Anonymous, 16 Jan 2023The Pixel 7 battery life is average at best in comparison t... moreThank you for the reply. Appreciated

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      • 16 Jan 2023

      Red Eye, 15 Jan 2023Not so much an opinion, but a few questions about the Pixel... moreThe Pixel 7 battery life is average at best in comparison to other phones. DO NOT I repeat do not buy this for its battery. Once again, average at best.

        Red Eye, 15 Jan 2023Not so much an opinion, but a few questions about the Pixel... moreYou should go for pixel 7 or wait for 7a. Even if tensor g2 is not as powerful as the 8 gen 1, it does have the best image processing, that's why their camera performance is top notch. Also, software stability is one of their best points

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          • Red Eye
          • nmL
          • 15 Jan 2023

          Not so much an opinion, but a few questions about the Pixel 7
          Im in the market for a new phone. I'm still using a Poco F1 which I got in 2018. I've recently gone on holiday and was using my phone a lot more (Google maps, spotify, camera, the odd game to pass waiting times etc.) and the aging battery of the F1 was letting me down. I ended up switching to an Ulefone armor 8 which I got a while back just to use as an mp3 player. But the armor 8 has a really bad camera, so I kept asking my friends to take pictures for me.

          It made me realise it's time for a new phone. I could change the battery of the F1, but a bad experiance with an older phone makes me reluctant to do so. The battery they replaced it with was either smaller or not original and battery life showed no significant improvement.

          So what are you guys thought on the following phones as a replacement?
          1. Pixel 7 (not pro)
          2. Realme gt2 pro
          3. Xiaomi 12
          4. Xiaomi 12t pro
          5. Poco f4 gt
          6. Poco F4 or even the X4 gt

          I care about battery life, support (because I try to keep my phones a while), Camera (having to put up with the Armor 8 made me realise how important it is), and of course OS performance.
          I don't really care about demanding games, screen quality as long as it's bright and big enough to see but small enough to fit in man pockets.

          I will appreciate any thoughts especially if someone has used/experienced two or more from the models above. I apologise for the long post.

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            • LiZ
            • 14 Jan 2023

            Anonymous, 13 Jan 2023If you are happy with 2G and 3G only, then there's no ... moreThank you!

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              • Kg@
              • 13 Jan 2023

              TooLate, 04 Jan 2023Right on. Pathetic battery life, miserable UI, mediocre cam... moreActually the Pixel 7 camera is NOT mediocre (at least the main rear shooter [wideangle]). It actually outperforms the iPhone 14 Pro Max and outperforms even my APS-C dSLR paired with an F/1.4 lens for handheld extreme low light photography. The Pixel 7 beats my dSLR in detail, dynamic range, and amount of camera shake/blur in such extreme low light situations.

              Pixel phones are one (or two) trick ponies - the best main camera in any phone bar none, with the best built in photoeditor (Google photos - with Pixel exclusive features/tools), bar none, and the best in security updates (every 4th of every month) and the fastest Android software updates, bar none.

              For everything else (Android software features, battery, hardware features, network connectivity, etc.), Samsung flagship phones running on OneUI 5.0 and equipped with Snapdragon processors are way, way, ahead of Pixel phones or any Android phone brand for that matter.

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                • Kg@
                • 13 Jan 2023

                AK, 08 Jan 2023How to use barometer in Pixel 7?Download any barometer app from the playstore and the Pixel will display the ambient barometric pressure.

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                  • Kg@
                  • 13 Jan 2023

                  Ogi, 07 Jan 2023Hi! How is the call quality ang the signal reception? Thank you!If you are happy with 2G and 3G only, then there's no problem with 2G/3G calls and 2G/3G/4G signal at all. However, Pixel phones don't support VoLTE and 5G roaming and both VoLTE and 5G are intentionally disabled by Google when the phone is 7sed in a country that it was never officially released. So if you live or travel to a country where Pixel phones were never officially released, there's absolutely no 5G and no VoLTE support.

                    Ogi, 07 Jan 2023Hi! How is the call quality ang the signal reception? Thank you!better than my pixel 5 before. overheating still present tho

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                      • 09 Jan 2023

                      Long-time Pixel owner, up the 5 that is - the 6/6 Pro had issues I wasn't willing to put up with (but the style isn't my cup of tea, to each their own), the 7 sounded like a charm with its promises of fixed hardware/software, but I guess a lot of money is spent on praising a flawed device still plagued with issues - the latest of which, camera lenses popping out/cracking for no reason, is quite worrying.

                      I don't know what's going on in Google's Pixel department, but it sure doesn't do much to reassure would-be buyers. Devices going in this price range are not top contenders in terms of features or speed, but they should at least be issue-free and reliable. Right now there are many $200-300 devices far more sturdy and reliable than Pixels, this is saying something.

                        Well, my Pixel 7 just randomly stopped working. Getting a refund. The community was right about the Pixels!

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                          • 08 Jan 2023

                          How to use barometer in Pixel 7?

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                            • LiZ
                            • 07 Jan 2023

                            Hi! How is the call quality ang the signal reception? Thank you!

                              So far, this phone has been reasonably good. Good enough display, and good enough battery life. Android 13 has been reasonably good but sometimes I experience some glitches, especially in the recent apps section. Of course, the cameras have been stellar!

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                                • Anonymous
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                                • 07 Jan 2023

                                loki368, 06 Jan 2023I have had the phone for a week now and the people on here ... moreYou're right. The Pixel 7 really puts the camera of the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max to shame. The dynamic range of the Pixel 7 retains highlights better compared to the iPhone 14 Pro/Pro Max which bleaches them white. Dark shadow details are still visible in the Pixel 7, not crushed into pure black like in the iPhone 14 Pro/Pro Max. Color accuracy/white balance is excellent to on the Pixel 7. You get way better white balance than in the iPhone models mentioned. Low light performance in the Pixel 7 is excellent too, with great detail and very low noise in Night Sight mode. The iPhone 14 Pro/14 Pro Max's night mode really don't stand a chance. There's just no comparison when you look at them side by side in a 4K UHD computer monitor; more so if I look at them in my 85" 4K UHD HDR tv.

                                It's an amazing feat considering the Pixel 7 (128GB, 6.3" display) costs LESS THAN HALF the price of the CHEAPEST iPhone 14 Pro (128GB, 6.1" display) and cameras are the number one selling point in flagship/expensive phones.

                                Battery life is excellent too! Don't be misled by the 'modest' 4355mAh battery. It actually lasts longer than the 5000mAh batteries in Samsung's midrange M series phones!

                                Software performance and user interface in the Pixel 7 is fast and snappy and animation and transitions are super smooth despite having only 90Hz display refresh rate and not having the fastest processor around. Maybe Google owning android and having an in-house designed Tensor chip for the Pixel 7 / 7 Pro really helped.

                                I'm amazed that even if Pixel 7 doesn't make it to the top 10 of the synthetic benchmarks (Antutu, Geekbench, etc.), it actually outperforms the top phones in interface smoothness and consistency. In fact, it boots/starts up faster than even the iPhone 14 Pro Max and opens/loads many apps faster.

                                Other very useful/powerful and smart/intelligent Google Pixel 7 features that are nowhere to be found in iPhones/Samsungs or are present but are poorly implemented (or not as refined/advanced) include: 'Unblur' feature (really excellent AI sharpening for blurry photos that you thought were hopeless and worth deleting), 'Magic eraser' (amazingly easy and superb clean removal of photo distractions), 'Background blur' (which works after a picture is taken - even if it is not taken by a Pixel phone)', 'Color focus (which selectively decolorizes the subject or the background' for artistic effect), and so much more. Pixel phones are also the first in android version updates and security updates. I always get the monthly security update every 4th of the month and never later.

                                Despite all the accolades I've mentioned, the Pixel 7 has issues though, and MANY of them can be REAL deal breakers. Among the worst are:

                                1. No 5G or VoLTE support if you buy them in an unsupported country or if you happen to travel internationally--- EVEN IF the local networks of a country has the available 5G and 4G LTE bands that are supported by the Pixel 7 model. It's unforgivable considering that even dirt cheap China based phones without Google Playstore, all support 5G and VoLTE out of the box in ANY country for as long as the 5G/4G LTE bands are matched in the phone and in the country's local networks.

                                2. Finicky under display fingerprint scanner. You've probably read it many times here or in other Pixel 7 forums. I can confirm this issue REALLY exists. For some reason, only my right fingerprint is having problems. My left fingerprint works almost flawlessly every time. Wiping my finger with my facial oil helps a lot with my right fingerprint. Maybe my left finger is always oily while my right finger is always dry? I don't know, but really, I've never had an issue with my other phones' under display fingerprint scanners so maybe it's the Pixel 7's fingerprint sensor that's really the problem. Google never acknowledged it though.

                                3. Poor wireless screen sharing support. The Pixel phones only support chromecast and not Miracast. So if your TV only supports miracast, you won't be able to share your Pixel's phone screen to your TV. You have to buy a chromecast, and even then, it's not perfect.
                                Also, compared to Samsung's 'Smart View', the chromecast powered screen sharing in Pixel phones is HORRENDOUS. Samsung allows you to change the aspect ratio of your Samsung phone when doing a wireless screen share so that when you play a 16:9 video on your 20:9 (or 21:9) phone, it fills up the entire screen of your 16:9 smart TV. Not so with the dumb Pixel phones (and possibly other phone brands too).

                                4. The white/gray/black gesture bar at the bottom center of the Pixel 7's screen wastes so much space and cannot be hidden. It was meant to remind you several years past that you have to perform your swipe gestures in that area. But it's been years Google, and everybody knows they are supposed to swipe in that area. Why still not remove it altogether Google, why? Apple envy?

                                5. No manual LTE band selection. I really miss my Samsung's *#2263# manual band selection menu. It's really very useful because smartphones are still really dumb phones. They keep on auto selecting an LTE band that has the strongest signal even if the upload/download speeds are horrendous because that band is congested. With Samsung phones, you can actually choose a much weaker LTE band or bands that are less congested and lock your phone's mobile data connection to those band or bands, so you can get good LTE speeds in areas where there's just too much network congestion.

                                6. No headphone jack, no micro sd card expansion, no FM radio, no option to hide your hotspot (hidden SSID) and no ADB support for hiding the status bar and navigation bar since android 11 (command: adb shell settings put global policy control immersive.status=*). Even Samsung's midrange phones costing less than 1/3 the price of the Pixel 7 support all of the above, but not the Pixel phones. I can say with 100% confidence, OneUI is really overall, a MUCH better, more mature and more feature rich Android skin than the vanilla android as envisioned by Google.

                                I've hated Google's approach to Pixel phone hardware features (no micro SD expansion, no headphone jack, etc.) and abhorred Google's android development approach for the longest time (it's becoming more and more monopolistic, closed, and greedy like Apple), but I can't deny the Pixel 7 / 7 Pro are the BEST phones for mobile photography, BAR NONE. They actually put to shame my dSLR that was paired with an F/1.4 lens in photo quality after I did a shoot out of both in a very dimly lit room. I'm amazed frankly a phone could beat my dSLR in extreme low light. I even had trouble bracing to avoid camera blur in my dSLR but with the Pixel 7, it was really not a problem. And not only that, the Pixel 7/7 Pro are also the best phones for really quick, and really intelligent and sophisticated IN-PHONE photo editing/photo postprocessing BAR NONE. 'Magic eraser', 'Photo unblur', 'Background blur' and 'Color focus' in camera is something I could never do on my dSLR. And even if I could do the same on my computer, the ease of doing it in-phone, the time needed to do it, the complexity and skill needed to do it in my desktop using Photoshop, is just night and day. I'm actually seeing the death of interchangeable lens cameras if those big camera companies (Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, etc.) don't adopt the advances of phone processors and computational photography. Time will come when the only people who will use these dedicated cameras are professional filmakers and photographers who make a living out of it. All the rest of the population will be using smartphone cameras.

                                So there. If 'the absolute best in mobile photography/mobile photo editing', PRICE NOT AN ISSUE, is the top 1 feature in your 'must have' list, sell your iPhone 14 Pro Max or Samsung S22 Ultra or some other Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Oneplus, etc. flagship phone NOW and go buy a Pixel 7/Pixel 7 Pro.

                                Otherwise, if mobile photography and mobile photo editing is only your #3 priority (or lower), then forget about the Pixel phones. There are vastly many more better phone options out there (that may be cheaper too).

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                                  • Anonymous
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                                  • 07 Jan 2023

                                  TooLate, 04 Jan 2023Right on. Pathetic battery life, miserable UI, mediocre cam... moreDon't understand how camera and UI are bad when its pretty much stock android no skins.

                                  What were you expecting?

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                                    • 06 Jan 2023

                                    I have had the phone for a week now and the people on here have remarkable lying skills.

                                    This phones camera is one of the best, way better than iPhone 14 pro but is beat by the xiomia 12s ultra and Samsung s22 ultra.
                                    The phone does heat up very noticeably when playing games, you can feel it in the aluminum siding.
                                    This phones UI feels incredibly fast and smooth but the swiping back motion and all really is confusing to know if you don't look at the tutorials it gives you.

                                    I haven't notice anything too bad yet, besides the heating up and its really slippery without a case but overall, a great phone.
                                    8.5/10

                                      Minimal color shift, comparable to the S22U's display with that. It is a darker display but it's still visible in direct sunlight.

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                                        • 04 Jan 2023

                                        Jreid2k, 30 Dec 2022This has to be one of the most overrated phones of the year... moreRight on. Pathetic battery life, miserable UI, mediocre camera... This is the worst phone I owned in the past 10+ years. Google surely paid sweet $$$ to all those youtubers and unfortunately I'm one of the victims. Will never buy a Google phone anymore.

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