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

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    • M7m
    • 08 Jan 2023

    How to use barometer in Pixel 7?

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      • Ogi
      • 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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              • loki368
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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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                    • Anonymous
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                    • 04 Jan 2023

                    Hills od, 28 Dec 2022Three phones in me mind for 2023. Pixel 7, Samsung S22 &a... moreS22 without 2nd thought as a pixel 7 user

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                      • 04 Jan 2023

                      I see all the youtubers praising the phone, and all the written reviews complaining about the viewing angles and extreme color shift between red and blue. Can anyone confirm/debunk this?

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                        • 02 Jan 2023

                        Thinking of getting my 1st pixel, but the charging speed is a big deal for me, for the price... Can't imagine how slow that will be..

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 31 Dec 2022

                          Jreid2k, 30 Dec 2022This has to be one of the most overrated phones of the year... moreI agree, but the fusion has a curved screen which I don't want

                          Small (ish) decent phones are thin on the ground these days.

                            This has to be one of the most overrated phones of the year. A phone that has a 6 3. Inch screen should not weigh almost 200 grams. 50 percent charge in 30 minutes is a joke when the fusion gets to 30 in 10 minutes and weighs 168 grams. The Fusion also comes with a 68 watt charger in the box. This phone also has a lot of gimmicks the average user won't even use. This reminds me of Samsung in it's earlier days, throw everything at the phone and see what sticks. I don't know what Google is paying these YouTube influencers but this selective groveling is pathetic.

                              Iskandir22, 29 Dec 2022sony phone has crazy overheating problem and is more expens... moreS23 will be a good choice too. Let's wait and see what Samsung will offer in Feb. thanks a lot

                                Kaki, 28 Dec 2022Asus Zenfone 9. 5.9 in display with headphone jack and big... moreRight? I think i will consider that one too. thanks for your recommendation bro

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                                  • 29 Dec 2022

                                  Hills od, 28 Dec 2022Three phones in me mind for 2023. Pixel 7, Samsung S22 &a... moresony phone has crazy overheating problem and is more expensive when comparing, camera app is great when you tweak settings but A.I is terrible . pixel 7 is a great phone for camera and battery life. Samsung s22 is a great allrounder but if you wait until February you can get s23 according to leaks

                                    Here's my review for the phone:

                                    - it does heat up, especially in games (and you will feel it on the aluminum frame too), but not as much as Samsung S22 (Exynos)
                                    - power & volume buttons are switched on the side, which drove me crazy (volume buttons are hard to reach when you're using phone horizontally. Also when using camera, you can use the volume up button for the camera shutter, but since the button is in the middle of the phone, its basically unusable)
                                    - fingerprint reader is pretty bad, many times it didn't register my finger (setting up the same finger twice does help a little)
                                    - network signal already dropped once in the first week of usage, right before a call and didn't want to reconnect
                                    - Google is asking for reviews for core apps like "Phone" app or "Messages" app when you open them, which I find ridiculous
                                    - phone isn't supported / recognized in many popular games, like Wild Rift, Asphalt 9, Genshin Impact, which means it will set everything to minimum settings and many higher video settings will be disabled (including 90 fps)
                                    - my phone had also some problem with an earpiece speaker, something was resonating there while calling, which was really distracting
                                    - mobile data button is merged with the WiFi button, so it's not a one-click button to turn on and off (also it will always show an exclamation mark next to the WiFi signal icon when data is disabled for some reason)
                                    - it's a bit heavier than I would like (and is pretty slippery without a cover)

                                    I've returned the phone within the first 2 weeks. That was the first time I tried a Pixel phone and I got to say I'm a bit dissapointed. Only good thing about this phone is its camera. But that's about it for me.

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                                      • 28 Dec 2022

                                      Hills od, 28 Dec 2022Three phones in me mind for 2023. Pixel 7, Samsung S22 &a... moreAsus Zenfone 9.
                                      5.9 in display with headphone jack and big battery.

                                        Three phones in me mind for 2023.
                                        Pixel 7, Samsung S22 & Xperia 5IV
                                        I love small phones for sure but i also like me a decent battery life so i really don't know which one delivers more on that category... Any help?

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