If you're looking for a new smartphone that will serve you well, the Google Pixel 7 is worth considering. It's a great value for the money, offers excellent battery life and features a strong camera system. The Pixel 7 sports a 6.3-inch AMOLED display with an impressive 90Hz refresh rate and HDR10+ support. It's bright, colorful and welcomes all the content you throw at it.
Display
The Pixel 7's 6.3-inch display isn't quite as big as the 6.4-inch screen on last year's Pixel 6, but it still delivers plenty of visibility. It can reach a peak brightness of 1,400 nits when HDR content is playing, and it has a good color balance that's able to maintain its level of clarity for an extended period.
The pixel 7 also features a fingerprint scanner that's much faster than the one on the Pixel 6 last year. Google claims the under-display sensor has a 30% latency improvement over its predecessor, and it definitely feels a little faster than before to me.
The Pixel 7 also uses Google's new Tensor G2 processor, a machine learning-focused chip that's been optimized for speed and power efficiency. It's accompanied by an improved Mali-G710 GPU, second-gen Titan M2 security chip and an imaging DSP.
Camera
The Google Pixel 7 continues to impress with its cameras, delivering sharp photos and adding some new features, such as Photo Unblur and Cinematic Blur. Its computational photography prowess is powered by the latest Tensor G2 chip, making it fast and secure while providing amazing battery life.
The main camera is a 50MP sensor with an ultrawide lens joined by a telephoto lens that uses digital zoom. The images are well-detailed, colorful, and accurate.
For zoomed-in shots, the Pixel 7 relies on Super Res Zoom, a term first used on the Pixel 3 and then updated for the 7 Pro. It combines four pixels from the original image for each pixel in the cropped area to produce a higher resolution result.
The Pixel 7's telephoto mode, however, didn't deliver the same levels of detail as the telephoto camera on the Pixel 7 Pro, even at moderate zoom factors. It also had trouble with temporal noise in low-light scenes.
Performance
The Pixel 7 is the latest in Google’s series of smartphones, and it’s a fine example of how to bring top-tier software, smart features, and camera technology to an affordable price. It costs PS599 / $599/A$999 and is an excellent choice for anyone looking to upgrade from a low-end phone or those who want to give Google’s latest Android system a try.
It has a crisp 6.3-inch display with 1080 x 2400-pixel resolution and a 90Hz refresh rate, as well as HDR10+ support to help you get the most out of your content. Its brightness is also rated to reach up to 1,400 nits, making it a good choice for outdoor use.
The Pixel 7 is also powered by Google’s second-generation Tensor G2 chipset, which has made it quicker to take photos in poor light and to fix blurry snaps with the new “unblur” feature. It has some other hardware tweaks, too, including a face unlock system that’s far more reliable than the fingerprint scanner on the Pixel 6.
Battery
The Pixel 7 is a very capable phone, but its battery life leaves something to be desired. The 4,355mAh battery it's packing will get you through a day with moderate usage, but if you want to go the extra mile then you'll need to recharge.
The battery isn't a huge deal breaker, and it can handle the odd task like recording a short cinematic video or doing some AI-inspired night sight photography with ease. Still, we'd like to see it improve on that particular feat.
It's no secret that battery life is an important consideration when purchasing a new phone. We've seen devices that get two days on a charge, but you'll need to be careful about what you're doing and what kind of settings you use. The good news is that the Google Pixel 7 has one of the better batteries we've tested this year, and it's certainly on the pricier end of the spectrum.
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