After using the pixel 7 Pro for a few weeks now my experience has been overall positive but I did
lose my volume rocker last week this has literally never happened to me on any other phone now it's
since been found and replaced but I fear this may be a much bigger issue and we'll get into a
lot more detail on this shortly now there's also a few other pros and cons when it comes to the pixel
7 Pro so we're just going to go through them now if we start with the positives overall Google have
done a great job with the Aesthetics the look has changed slightly and I think it's for the better
the predecessors were more colorful and bold but personally I like this new refined look and it's
a bit more sleek and professional well they have delivered us some Hardware improvements in the
pixel 7 Pro Google's Focus has been on software improvements and the same as we've seen before
with Google they focused on making the hardware better through the software rather than just
upgrading everything in the phone the result of this is a more fine-tuned experience overall and
best of all it means the phone's cost doesn't increase from the predecessor the main area of
focus because with the pixels is always the camera and the only Hardware upgrade we've got from the
6 Pro is auto focus on the ultra wide as well as an 11MP selfie camera we get some impressive
software upgrades to zoom capabilities of either software though and overall the cameras are very
impressive but they do still have their issues and when it comes to photos the pixel 7 Pro is
just incredible through all of the cameras we get great looking photos with natural colors
High Detail no noise and some high dynamic range we've got a fast shutter speed which means we
can quickly Snap photos in any movement even with the faster moving subjects most impressive on the
pixel 7 Pro is the camera zoom where they crop the primary camera pixels to get a near Optical
quality 2x Zoom now they then fuse together the frames from the primary and telephoto and this
gives us great detail at 3x Zoom as well as 4x zoom then we've got the telephoto camera that
gives us the five times optical zoom now it also crops the telephoto camera the same as it does
with the two times and this gives us 10x Zoom at a near Optical quality and this means that we've
got so many Zoom options when shooting and overall I've been very impressed now even if you take the
photos up from the 30x Zoom okay we're losing a lot of detail here but for a phone with only five
times optical zoom it's still a very impressive photo now we also get Zoom stabilization while
we're zooming in at this magnification and this makes it much easier to actually take the photos
I forgot just how great the pixel cameras were until I was shooting them again with the pixel
7 Pro and I have to say I much prefer the pixel 7 Pros photos over something like the iPhone 14
pro in night time the shots also look great the primary camera is just incredible and we can also
take night shots from the ultra wide but to be honest it's not really that great and it
does tend to add some noise so my recommendation is primary camera only for the night shots they
also introduced macro mode for the pixel 7 Pro and again this is a pretty impressive feature
we can get close up and get nice detailed macros shots which as you can see it just look great it
also performs well at the portrait shots and here we get good enough portraits that look great but
if you do look closely you can always spot a few mistakes here and there with some minor errors on
the edge detection or just some fuzziness around the edges selfie shots also look great for both
normal photos as well as portrait and again the portrait photos look good and it's only
if you look a little bit closer then you will see some minor arrows when it comes to the video the
pixel performs well it's going to take some nice 4K HDR videos it's 60 frames a second and to be
perfectly honest it's not the best out there but it's still pretty good it's going to take
perfectly good videos as you can see here but it does have a little bit more noise when compared to
something like the iPhone 14 pro Max we also get some auto focus issues from time to time
especially on the ultra wide camera and it seems to be fine when focusing on a subject but I find
it if panning around a landscape view with the ultra wide then it's sometimes gonna lose focus
and have to research they all also introduced the new active stabilization which works very
well when running down the hill you can see how well the stabilization performs but again we do
lose focus from time to time if it's scenery now there's also a new cinematic mode which blurs the
background from the subject and it works but in my opinion it just doesn't work well enough
yet if you want a talking shot in your stood relatively still then it's going to be fine but
if the subject's moving around then it does have issues with the focus then even when it does have
the focus locked on we get a bit of a halo effect around the subject with the edge blur isn't quite
close enough when it comes to Night videos the primary camera also does okay but being night
there's still a fair bit of noise in the video and then if we switch to the ultrawide camera it
really struggles in low lighting now the Magic Eraser has also been improved and to be honest
this already worked incredibly well and it's just got even better you can remove unwanted objects or
people from your photo quickly and easily and it saves you having to do it on a computer we've also
got photo on blur which I guess can be helpful for some older photos but it tends to give it
a very unnatural sharpening so I personally just don't use it we've got new functions like speech
to text and this records you word for word and it even labels out the different speakers we've now
got face unlock as well as fingerprint unlock and to be fair they both work pretty well the
predecessor had fingerprint unlock issues for a long time and these do now seem to have been
resolved and the fingerprint scanner works well and it works every time now it's not the quickest
of all phones is it's still an optical sensor but in my opinion it works fast enough as you can see
here now the face unlock also works well but it's a 2d Face Unlock and it's just using the selfie
camera so it works when I'm wearing my glasses and when I'm not wearing my glasses but if I
put on overhead headphones or a mask then it tends not to recognize my face at all the software runs
smooth and it's Snappy everything is nice and responsive and we've got a new improved display
with a pre brightness of 1500 nits which is just a great experience overall well the predecessor
was a little bit buggy and for me especially when using third-party camera applications I
haven't experienced this so far in the 7 Pro so this is also great to see the battery capacity is
pretty much the same as last year with 5,000 mAh and of course the battery has been improved with
optimization now I'm a heavy user uploading things to tiktok Instagram and YouTube and
it always lasts me the day but I don't see a huge improvement from the 6 Pro now we also get 30 watt
fast charging along with 20 watt wireless charging and again it supports reverse wireless charging
now the tensor 2 chipset brings some minor improvements in terms of performance and geekbench
5 it scores 1,056 for single core and then 3111 for multi so this is a little higher than the
predecessor's 1,040 for single and 2,854 for multi it's also going to handle any games you throw at
it fine but it's not as powerful as a Snapdragon 8 gen 1 or 2. now my biggest issue is of course
the volume rocker I was at home one day and I pulled it out of my pocket to find that the volume
rocker was completely missing from the phone now I hadn't been out that day and I certainly hadn't
dropped the phone so I was very surprised to see this happen luckily I found it and popped it back
in the phone and it works as normal but I now find that I can take it out whenever I want it appears
that it's secured in there just fine I can shake it about try to pick it out and it won't come
out but if I press down hard on the volume down button I can then prize it out of position now
I've checked multiple phones including the pixel 6 Pro and the pixel 7 and it doesn't work on these
so it does seem to be just an issue with my pixel 7 Pro I've also seen another report of missing
volume buttons online which means it's not just me that has the problem now overall the phone's build
quality it feels great but I don't want a phone or I'm worried about losing my volume buttons
now if this was just a small batch that has the issue then it's not so much a problem but if this
is more widespread then it's of course a big issue let me know in the comment if anyone has a pixel 7
Pro if they're able to do the same so overall the pixel 7 Pro is a great buy though it delivers an
impressive phone at £849 for the UK then $899 in the USA which is a good price at providing
this volume rocker issue doesn't affect a large amount of phones we've also got the standard
pixel 7 which is even more of a bargain at $599 or £599 so if you don't want the Quad HD screen
or a telephoto camera then this is also a good choice now I'm a big pixel fan and as I say I'm
happy with this release but it's hard to recommend it with the potential of a large issue at hand so
I would suggest that we see how widespread this problem is before you make your purchase now
hopefully the comment section can also help shed some light on just how big this issue is but of
course if there's anything I've missed or you've got any questions at all then just leave them in
the comments and I'll get back to you as soon as I can but thanks for watching the video if you
liked it smash a thumbs up if you didn't hit the thumbs down twice and ask you guys in the next one