Google Pixel 7 Pro review

25 October 2022


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Mediatek sux, 29 Oct 2022https://www.amazon.com/Asus-TUF-i5-11260H-Threads-Keyboard/... moreImagine thinking rtx 3050 is good.

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    • Anonymous
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    • 29 Oct 2022

    Maybe I needed to read this article better and I just missed it, but it seemed to fully miss the reasons why I want to move to the pixel... All the fantastic AI functions that are much improved with the processor it has.

    Live captioning on content
    Translation available directly in some apps
    Near flawless voice dictation
    Photo unblur and erase functions
    Text versions of voice mail and automated prompts (like calling an insurance company)


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      • Anonymous
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      • 29 Oct 2022

      At night the 2x mode only has 3 megapixels instead of 12.5. I have just noticed that they use machine learning zoom at 2x at night, but not at 1.9x. It looks very artificial. I prefer 1.9x at night.

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        • 7Xh
        • 29 Oct 2022

        has anyone of you experience home screen icons that disappear? maybe this is a bug

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          • Anonymous
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          • 29 Oct 2022

          Mediatek sux, 29 Oct 2022Yep he sure did well proving your point...wrong.One laptop doesn't have a GPU, Second laptop is going for $1100 in the states.

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            • Anonymous
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            • 29 Oct 2022

            The first S22 Ultra main camera sample image in this review suffers from overexposure as well as HDR halos at pixel level. I am surprised that Samsung's HDR image processing looks so bad. It is still behind the HDR+ On mode of phones like the Google Nexus 5x.

              I have a strange issue with this phone
              Whenever I am trying to play a game and if I go to settings and to change the graphic settings to max, it won't allow me to do that. It always keeps the settings in medium

              Please help how to overturn this

                Anonymous, 29 Oct 2022Thanks for proving my pointYep he sure did well proving your point...wrong.

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                  • 29 Oct 2022

                  NeonHD, 29 Oct 2022No, you can definitely buy some very well-spec'd lapto... moreThanks for proving my point

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                    • Anonymous
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                    • 29 Oct 2022

                    It seems that the 7 Pro doesn't use its 12 megapixel 2x mode at night and uses its 3 megapixel 2x mode instead, even when you choose Night Sight. Disappointing because the 2x specs are not bad apart from the Quad Bayer array:
                    18mm² sensor, 12.5 megapixels, f/1.85 OIS lens, that's not much worse than the main camera specs of the Pixel 3 and noticeably better than the tele specs of the Pixel 4, which has an active sensor area of approximately 10mm² at 2x with an f-number of 2.4 and the iPhone 12 Pro has a 2x camera with a 12mm² sensor and f/2.0 lens.
                    And read noise isn't really a valid reason when you choose Night Sight. It's frustrating that you only get 3 megapixels at 2x at night.
                    And at 3x you will get only roughly 1 megapixel at night.

                      Anonymous, 27 Oct 2022$899 MSRP gaming laptop would be trash specs though, Thats ... moreNo, you can definitely buy some very well-spec'd laptops for $899 or near it.

                      The ASUS Vivobook S 15 is a good example of one, with an i5 H processor, 512GB SSD and OLED 60hz. $799 when on sale.

                      The ASUS TUF Gaming A15 is also a good one, with 144hz, RTX 3050, 4800H, 16GB RAM. $999. These are CAD prices so would be cheaper in the US.

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                        • 28 Oct 2022

                        has anyone of you experience home screen icons that disappear? maybe this is a bug

                          Annyms, 26 Oct 2022That is true. 12MP resolution is not enough now. But I don&... moreI have lost interest in mobile cameras

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 28 Oct 2022

                            Anonymous, 28 Oct 2022I5 is good for gaming and can confirm that brand new gaming... moreFind me a good gaming laptop with a 3050 and i5 for under $900 brand new. I'll wait because I've been looking constantly on slickdeals for a year for something like that and have only ever seen 1660 laptops in that price range. anything with a 3000 series has always been above $900 even when on sale. Of course now that the 4000 series laptops will be out soon maybe you are right but that is nearly 2 years after those 3000 series laptops have been out. This is still comparing a 2 year old GPU/Processor on a laptop vs a brand new flagship phone. It still doesn't make a lot of sense. What the 3000 series laptops should be compared to is either a pixel 6 pro or similar since they are both "one generation old" at this point.

                              Fa14bi, 27 Oct 2022https://youtu.be/KaKy-8njBGY S22 Ultra: 45.4°C, 45W F... moreNot those charging speed videos. I was asking about this statement of yours - "since the main factor of battery aging is heat, " and there you also mention 20w with high temp charging is worse than 100w with low temp. Whats the source for this?

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                                • Anonymous
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                                • 28 Oct 2022

                                Anonymous, 27 Oct 2022$899 MSRP gaming laptop would be trash specs though, Thats ... moreI5 is good for gaming and can confirm that brand new gaming laptop with 3050 cost less than pixel 7 pro. And it's at a time when gpus are unreasonably priced.
                                And yes it's a proper comparison. Up until few years ago, before when these dumbphone oems started to push prices towards and beyond £/$/€1000, good gaming PC and laptops have always costed more.
                                Did you just wake up from coma after few years? Then congratulations for surviving but you're way out of touch with current affairs. I'm not saying there are NO phones with headphone jack, saying there are too few and it's getting lesser, everyone knows that. And there's probably only one or two which are decent. ZenFone 9, Xperia 5iv and poco x4 gt, that's all! What else is worth buying? Xperia is too expensive as well. Next year there may be none with 3.5mm jack!
                                Yes, bootloaders are increasingly less unlockable or getting more troublesome to unlock. More and more restrictions are being placed everyday. For example, some new scamsung phones' camera won't work with UB. There's also news of inability to downgr from A13 in pixels (maybe there's workaround but that's making things increasingly difficulty every year). Again, you seem not to know these.

                                  AnonD-546724, 26 Oct 2022I do believe the Pixel 7 series compete in the very high en... more"But in real life, you won't notice it. At all."
                                  Nowadays the difference in performance between midrange and high-end SoCs can be only truly felt when you're playing graphics-intensive games (Genshin for instance), and Tensor will struggle to keep up with what Qualcomm and Mediatek offer in that regard.

                                  "no mid-range chip could possibly pull such advanced imagery"
                                  Qualcomm's midrange SoCs can handle GCam ports just fine. What Google seems to be focusing on Pixel 7 is AI-powered image processing such as Face/Photo Unblur or Magic Eraser, but they really are solely dependent on NPU and not the other components (that are generally considered to be more important) of the SoC. Tensor G2 has a upper-midrange grade CPU and GPU which at best competes with SD888 or the upcoming 7 Gen 2 in terms of both raw performance and power efficiency, let that sink in.

                                    Mediatek sux, 27 Oct 2022No problem.https://youtu.be/KaKy-8njBGY

                                    S22 Ultra: 45.4°C, 45W

                                    Find X5pro: 43.1°C, 80W

                                    OnePlus 10pro: 43.1°C, 80W

                                    IQ00: 49.6°C!, 120W

                                    Xiaomi 12pro: 56.2°C!, 120W


                                    and: https://youtu.be/nM2mk19HgEQ

                                    S21Ultra: 48.1°C, 25W

                                    iPhone 13pro Max: 48.4°C, 27W

                                    Pixel 6pro, 42.7°C, 30W (Average Charging speed 10.7W)



                                    While I had the Pixel 6pro slightly higher in memory, it does show on the iPhone and Samsung that at lower wattage, you can still get a higher temperature while Charging, leading to the battery aging faster.

                                    Generally the faster you charge on any phone, the hotter they get.

                                    Most people just don't take in consideration that any phone handles high wattage differently well or bad.

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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 27 Oct 2022

                                      Anonymous, 27 Oct 2022$899 not bad? Deluded people like you are the reason why ph... more$899 MSRP gaming laptop would be trash specs though, Thats like an i5 and a GTX 1650 256gb SSD 8GB ram. This comparison doesn't make a lot of sense lol...You're comparing two things that are completely different and the only similarity is the fact that they are "technology hardware". Thats like comparing a car to a boat and you're using the fact that they are a "means of transportation" as a comparison factor. Both pieces of tech have very different purposes.

                                      The price factor is really confusing to me. If anything phones have been getting cheaper once you account for inflation. $899 today is far weaker than $899 in 2016.

                                      You can just buy a phone with a headphone jack and Micro SD card slot. A lot of them are still being made to this day. The only company who doesn't make a phone that has a headphone jack and Micro SD card slot is apple.

                                      I've had very little trouble unlocked the bootloaders in the last 3 phones that I've had. I don't really understand what you mean by bootloaders being increasingly not unlockable. You sure seem to know a lot about unlocking bootloaders for someone who doesn't actually buy a lot of phones...

                                      The Gimmicky part I don't understand. Almost every single phone in the last 10+ years has been nearly a carbon copy of each other just with better specs year after year. Only a few are "gimmicky" such as folding phones or phones with pens inside them.

                                      You can always just wait for sales before you buy a phone just like how you'd wait for a sale to buy a laptop. Recently I've seen the OP9 go for $150 over at Best Buy and the Pixel 6 go for $200. If you take advantage of these types of deals you can save a lot of money and pay very little for a phone...unless you want an iPhone in which case apple rarely does sales. You could buy a z flip 3 in excellent condition off ebay for about $350 and do the Samsung trade in deal at Best Buy to get $800 off say an S22+ thus paying $350 for that S22+. If you're poor, just stretch your dollar to the maximum possible amount that you can. Never pay MSRP for anything. I never pay full price for any of the phones I've purchased.

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