I’ve had this Pixel 7 Pro for months now and while I’ve tested some other phones throughout that time
(more on those later), I kept coming back to the 7 pro, so now it’s officially my daily driver.
It’s $899 and up, 128, 256 or 512 gig. As a content creator I use my
phone a LOT for content so anything less than 256 gigs probably wont work for me.
My original 128gb Snow Pixel was a gift from google through team pixel. I used
it for a few weeks then I gifted that one to my hubs (he loves it),
and I bought the Hazel 256 gb one. So I’ve used two of these since they came out. The
other color option is Obsidian, but I liked the hazel cuz it matches my eyes.
If you came from a Pixel 6 Pro, it’s the same size as 6 Pro, so an old case will fit the new phone,
but you need to modify button cutouts as the buttons shifted a bit. It’s 3 inches
by 6.4 inches, with a 6.7” display. I love the QHD+ display. It is definitely a smooth
120hz experience and it gets bright at up to 1500 nits peak brightness - almost too
bright for nighttime use, but easy to see in the sunlight.
I’m a heavy power user and the battery generally gets down low by 5pm, though
my husband doesn’t charge his til he goes to bed much later. It’s a 5000mAh battery,
that can do a 50% charge in 30 minutes with a 30W USB C charger. It’s also qi wireless compatible,
and has battery share to share some juice with your other qi products.
In terms of processing, the 12 gb of ram gives it good memory and the processor is
Google’s Tensor G2 with the Titan M2 for security. I’ve had a few occasions where
an app froze or was unresponsive - mostly things like Adobe Rush when I’m editing some
4k footage or Instagram while editing a video reel. But for general usage,
if you aren’t doing a lot of video editing, everything else is smooth as can be.
I’m so glad Google listened to our feedback on the fingerprint sensor,
because this one is definitely an upgrade. It’s MUCH faster and more
accurate. It doesn’t work as well with the screen protector I purchased straight from
the google store, though, and I have to press a little harder for it to register, and yes,
that is with the screen protector mode enabled in the settings to make the display more sensitive
to touch. I’ve removed this protector for this review, and will be trying a new one soon after.
I love the face unlock, although in terms of security the fingerprint sensor is superior.
It’s pretty quick and responsive, though it cannot be used to unlock any apps, just the screen.
The built in speakers are pretty clear, but they are lacking on the low end,
so I generally just use them for vocals like in podcasts. For music I switch to
my pixel buds pro - and when connected they sound great over bluetooth 5.2.
Since this phone is WiFi 6e ready,
it’s also quite fast over my wifi 6 network. When using on 5g around Denver,
I also noticed it had no issues. I have the mmWave and Sub 6 version which is unlocked from google.
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And lastly is the important section for content creators: the cameras.
I was fortunate enough to go to a TeamPixel Camp in the fall and got
to try this out in a variety of scenarios so I have tons of photos to work with.
The 50 MP camera with the 82 degrees field of view and f 1.85 aperture keeps impressing me.
Whether I’m taking photos in the snow (which, to be totally honest, it doesn’t white balance
on snow well and often makes it too blue so I use manual controls or edit these in post),
or I’m taking photos of my pin collection or beautiful fall leaves, it just wows me.
Google’s night sight makes gorgeous photos happen in low light, and it’s very intelligent,
knowing when to shoot in regular mode or with night sight enabled automatically.
I tested this with astrophotography and got some incredible results. By teaming
up with other content creators, we made pretty magical things happen in. And when
I tried making this animated photo of the stars, it came out so nice.
I rarely switch to portrait mode because the natural bokeh is done so well, giving
your subject crisp details and gradually blurring the background to make photos
look professional and not over compensating with jagged edges. I tested this, along with Real Tone,
which can accurately display skintones for everyone in your photos, while hanging out with
a couple of my colleagues Enobong and Saf, check out their youtube channels if you haven’t already.
Portrait mode is still great as well, but I barely use it now. And you can always go back
and add background blur, remove unwanted subjects or unblur subjects via the Google Photos app.
The 12 mp ultrawide has autofocus, a 125.8 degree FOV and an f 2.2 aperture. I’ve used
this tons of times during hikes in the mountains around here. Always great landscape shots,
great HDR, high quality lens correction along the edges.
The 48mp f3.5 telephoto camera has a 20.6 degree FOV and is not as good as the Samsung Galaxy
lineup, but it’s rare I need to zoom into anything up to 30x. I’ve used it a few times just to zoom
in on an animal that’s far away on a hill to see what it is, or a sign that’s far away that I
can’t read. 5x optical is fine, and the father you get with the zoom, the more potatoey it’ll look.
With this lens setup you can use Macro Mode and while not a big thing for a
lot of comparisons - it’s something I use consistently to take photos of my
collection. I’m very happy that I can take photos without it blurring the edges of the
subject or warping a straight edge due to lens curvature. It corrects these problems that I’ve
had with other phones and gives me a true macro photo with the entire subject in focus. Yes,
you can zoom into something to compensate for a lack of macro,
but you end up with a lower quality photo with less bokeh and less clarify as a result.
Taking top down shots is annoying, as it always flips these upside down no matter what - and I
experienced that on both 7 Pros I’ve tested. If google could fix that problem, I’d be very happy.
If you watched my CES content, all of those shorts videos were filmed on my Pixel 7 Pro
at 4k. So if you want some idea of how it looks, check out that playlist on my channel.
The front camera isn’t the best selfie camera I’ve used. This one has a 10.8
MP f 2.2 fixed focus lens, with a 92.8 degree FOV.
The colors are a little saturated but generally nice to look at,
and the wide angle let me get some great group shots with friends. I
took selfies all over the place in Tokyo so I have plenty of examples to show ya.
So: The Pixel 7 Pro. It has some quirks - like the top down shots always flipping upside down,
the processing not being as powerful as I’d like for 4k editing, and some loss of touch
sensitivity with a screen protector on… but all of those are really minimal issues. And
I’m an abnormal user who’s heavy on the content creation via mobile. So I have
no issue with recommending this product, especially since it’s secure and you’ll
get updates for several years down the line to protect your device and data.
Watch this playlist to see how well the Pixel 7 Pro did as my main camera for CES Shorts,
or watch this video that Youtube thinks you’ll like!
Thank you for watching, bye yall!