Google Pixel 7 Pro Review - IGN

The Pixel 7 Pro is acold from Google’s 2nd smartphone, but it represents the company’s sophomore merchandise since it swung much earnestly into the high-end handset arena. The $899 terms hasn’t changed, but this telephone offers a batch much than the already awesome Pixel 6 Pro of past year.

The Google Pixel 7 Pro introduces an adjacent smarter Tensor G2 processor, a longer 5x telephoto camera with up to 30x integer zoom, Face Unlock, longer artillery life, and faster charging. There’s a batch to emotion astir the Pixel 7 Pro and it feels similar the champion and astir uncompromising Android telephone yet.

Google Pixel 7 Pro – Design and Features

There are lone 2 things that person physically changed astir the Pixel 7 Pro compared to its predecessor. It’s 0.1 inches shorter truthful it’s ever truthful somewhat little gargantuanly gangly and much pocketable.

The 2nd astir evident quality is the solid rear camera barroom has been replaced by 1 made of polished aluminum. It makes the telephone look a small little distinct, but the shiny metallic sheen decidedly adds to its high-end quality – particularly truthful with the brass and grey colour strategy of the hazel exemplary I have.

As for changes you can’t spot truthful easily, the surface hits a higher maximum brightness of 1,500 nits, making it easier to spot outside. That’s a large leap up from the Pixel 6 Pro’s 800-nit display, and I tin decidedly spot things amended successful sunny daylight than with Google’s erstwhile handset.

The surface present besides inactive refreshes astatine up to 120Hz, and thankfully Android 12 adds immoderate smoother animations to support up with it.

Google Pixel 7 Pro – Gaming and Performance

The Pixel 7 Pro comes rocking Google’s second-generation Tensor G2 processor. It decidedly provides immoderate added oomph to the phone’s performance, but it’s not arsenic noticeable with day-to-day operation.

The Tensor G2 flexes its musculus astir by halving the magnitude of clip it takes to instrumentality a nighttime show photo, meaning you don’t person to hold arsenic agelong for images to process. The aforesaid goes for fundamentally immoderate photograph you instrumentality – the last HDR rendering appears conscionable arsenic you preview it alternatively of having to hold a infinitesimal oregon 2 for it to process.

The Tensor G2 besides powers immoderate adjacent much awesome code designation features. Namely, you tin person Google Assistant telephone and speech to lawsuit work astatine places similar Costco, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Home Depot portion you prime from on-screen options what you privation it to accidental for you. Google plans to adhd enactment for adjacent much work numbers, truthful hopefully being connected clasp with lawsuit work volition beryllium a happening of the past. You tin besides usage your dependable to substance successful 3 caller languages – Spanish, French, and Italian – including the quality to adhd emojis.

Google Pixel 7 Pro – Camera

The astir awesome happening astir the Google Pixel 7 Pro is by acold its caller cameras. The telephoto camera has seen the astir attention, with its 4x zoom lens upgraded to 5x – and that’s each done optically by the way. This caller lens is besides backed by the aforesaid 48MP sensor, truthful it tin digitally harvest successful with a diagnostic Google calls Super Res Zoom.

Even much interesting, if you instrumentality a photograph betwixt 2.5x and 5x, the Pixel 7 Pro volition instrumentality images from its main and telephoto camera and harvester them for a sharper and much elaborate image. The images astatine 5x are astonishingly crisp to the constituent wherever I consciousness this phone’s telephoto camera tin regenerate my existent mirrorless camera with a telephoto lens.

What’s more, the scope of Super Res Zoom has been extended from 20x to 30x. It’s not rather to the absurd levels of Samsung’s 100x Space Zoom connected the Galaxy S22 Ultra, but Google’s results are arguably amended crossed its much constricted range. The precocious zoom origin images from the Pixel 7 Pro are intelligibly sharper and little grainy.

As for the main camera, Google has stuck to the aforesaid 50MP sensor, but introduced a 2x integer zoom conscionable similar the iPhone 14 Pro. It’s a useful diagnostic for erstwhile you don’t request a 5x magnitude of magnification, but images bash look a small little detailed.

The ultrawide camera, meanwhile, has an upgraded 125-degree tract of presumption truthful you tin seizure adjacent wider vistas and taller buildings successful your frame. The ultrawide camera besides has a caller passable macro mode, but akin to Apple’s archetypal implementation of it, it’s each automatic and tin origin your telephone to randomly power from the main wide camera to the telephoto camera erstwhile you get adjacent to a subject. I’m hoping Google volition instrumentality immoderate benignant of manual enactment for the macro camera with an upcoming update.

Google Pixel 7 Pro – Battery Life

The Google Pixel 7 Pro offers astounding artillery beingness mostly acknowledgment to its 5000mAh battery. Most days I find myself with 30% oregon much artillery beingness remaining, and that’s with dense use. Google has besides boosted the wired and wireless accelerated charging speeds to 30W. Physically plugging successful the telephone for 15 minutes gave maine backmost 24% artillery complaint and aft 30 minutes I was astir up to a fractional vessel with 48%.

Unfortunately, arsenic of this writing, I did not person a 30W wireless charger to trial the maximum wireless charging speeds of the Google Pixel 7 Pro.