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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2023
Update 26 03 2023: can't say by using the phone anything got better. I tried the camera recording at a live music event and wished I'd took a different phone capable of the job. (Lost memories now) so, i hit record, zoom a little, pan a little, do the genral stuff. I notice the phones camera thinking it knows best by moving to focus on something it wants as opposed to what i want! Completely ruined the video. It was like standing on a boat swaying around. My hand was very still, i cant believe how much the camera shoots off looking at something else. On reviewing the footage the audio is disgustingly bad. Tinny , id get better recording on a talk boy from the 90s. I tried to edit the videos but even on high quality recording there seemd to be very few good frames to grab a image from out of around 15mintues i had about 5 images.
The most annoying thing is the apps to edit stuff in and the hrlorrible touchscreen experience when doing so. You select a frame withnthe slider but when you let go it moves a few frames making it incredibly frustrating and pointless. Another stupid thing about the video is , orientation. I filmed in landscape. Go to view the footage with my phone in landscape n it makes it portrait! Wtf? This google phone is dumb. Why do i have to untick auto rotate effecting the entire phone for this to work properly?
Who the f was employed by google to manage UI. They owe me my money back. Spent way to much time thinking how to smash this thing to bits.
Will never touch another google device again.
Swapping my original rating of 7.5 to 3.
Do not buy this phone.
My phone background: always an android user, never until now used Google phones. Brought myself up to speed with tips n tricks vids on YouTube and research this mobile before and after purchase. Bought it as casual fan of Google products and company whilst hearing good things about this mobile.
Firstly for those who want it snappy, get yourself a one plus or if the wallet allows a Samsung s22. For now at least I made the mistake of buying this pixel 7 pro.
I've been playing heavily with this phone for 4 days now. It's true what they say, battery life and speakers are below par with other flagship high end mobiles. With fast charge features it may not be an issue. I can live with it. As for speakers, I can live with it. But these are nothing to bost about.
Ports: Well, Google might as well join apple in the forcing of accessories to get full workability of the device. You don't get a 3.5mm audio jack. (They want you to buy wireless earbuds) you don't even get any headphones with a usb c end. The usb c port is all you get and a single SIM slot, (dual SIM is e SIM usage)
Using the interface seems simple enough but I've noticed it lag a few time whilst the chip is making changes , like saving files or photos. Not too bad but I often wonder what the hell is happening inside this thing. Then suddenly it snaps into normality again.
File and photo's: the most bazar experience Ive ever had on a mobile is here inside the photos app. It was so messy I downloaded the Google gallery app thinking it would help. I was wrong. The two apps don't seem to want to work together and jumping between them to file picture is a nightmare. Pictures seem to be all over the place! I tried to file them in folders with some progress, but it just isn't intuitive enough for me. Then there's this pointless *lock folder" in two locations. One in photos and one in files . Ok. Good luck finding it. And if you place items there, know that they are unusable by any apps until you take them out again. Won't be using that then. The annoying thing is when you click on a photo to edit it, you have to manually move each one to the photo app before the edit button will appear with the functions you wished were just there in the viewing screen. What a nightmare! The system doesn't seem to know the difference between a file, image, photo or where to but them so its a mess. (And these are images I can clearly see them)
Touch screen: seems good. Until you use a screen protector which everyone in the right mind will do! Even with the settings on for that it's not great.(I used a thin tpu one not a thick hardened expensive one) Lots of instances I'm pressing multiple times to register touch. Out of the box it will require you to swipe a lot to move back, forward, in and out of user interfaces. It took me about an hour to get to the "all apps" page, one moment it registered In one area to swipe up then it only worked in specific areas. Still don't know how to do it if I'm honest. (I always use touch screen devices) Eventually used older style navigation buttons which are a must feature for me to use this phone. I'm annoyed about it. There's also this odd selection animation that occurs when I'm simply scrolling down a list of things, as if it thinks I'm selecting it, only for nothing to happen either way. Whhhhjyyyyyy? It's very misleading.
There is no SD card slot. (Use cloud services they'll say) oh and get charged by the month! Nah. Thankfully the phone is able to store a lot with options in local storage. If you don't have any usb c data cables and don't use wireless data transfer you'll be forkiing out for those too. Oh and a charger. (Save the planet they'll say) right.
Consumer Technology is going backwards. Features are being pulled from you and sold as the next best thing. Nah.
So what's good. For the price nothing. If you ignored the price it's a still a smart phone that will make a call, take a pic n connect you . So why this phone? No idea. Something is lost on me with this. The web will say Google has a great flag ship mobile. It doesn't. It has a smart phone with good cameras and naff apps to navigate them in.
Design: looks and feels nice. Unfortunately like many other phones the speaker is at the bottom, exactly where my littler finger goes to hold the phone blocking the sound. Wwhhhhhhyyyyyyy? I'm also unsure why the cameras are put on a raised band, it definitely going to attract more knocks and bangs like this. I also really dislike the front camera being within the touchscreen realestate. How am I supposed to cover it to reduce hackers spying on me ? (You didn't want us to do that did you )
I like how light it is and slim even with a case on. (You'll have to buy a case separately. If you do remember to take into account this phone has a rear touch button, some cases will render this nice feature useless, same goes for wireless charging).
The screen is excellent in colour, sharpness and resolution. Experiencing media content on this will be enjoyable. For me the large screen size and how I use the phone means Im very greatful for the "one handed" feature in accessibility section to quickly pull down the out of reach parts of the screen.
Google services: the Google assistant is smooth and much quicker to respond than other devices I've used. Web surfing in different browsers has been a breeze.
Annoyed at the DRM screen grab littering black images onto my phone when there is no prior warning it won't work. Might as well just prevent the action all together once in those environments followed by a notice. Some users maybe unaware of why the black image is churned out.
Given time I hope to learn to enjoy it, so far I can't say I am, and it's just an expensive phone with nothing to shout about. I will at a push give it a 7.5 out of 10, 10 being great 1 being poor.
Perhaps I can review this again at a later date. Note the phone was running android version 13, 12gb ram and 256gb storage on a brand new unopened device.
The most annoying thing is the apps to edit stuff in and the hrlorrible touchscreen experience when doing so. You select a frame withnthe slider but when you let go it moves a few frames making it incredibly frustrating and pointless. Another stupid thing about the video is , orientation. I filmed in landscape. Go to view the footage with my phone in landscape n it makes it portrait! Wtf? This google phone is dumb. Why do i have to untick auto rotate effecting the entire phone for this to work properly?
Who the f was employed by google to manage UI. They owe me my money back. Spent way to much time thinking how to smash this thing to bits.
Will never touch another google device again.
Swapping my original rating of 7.5 to 3.
Do not buy this phone.
My phone background: always an android user, never until now used Google phones. Brought myself up to speed with tips n tricks vids on YouTube and research this mobile before and after purchase. Bought it as casual fan of Google products and company whilst hearing good things about this mobile.
Firstly for those who want it snappy, get yourself a one plus or if the wallet allows a Samsung s22. For now at least I made the mistake of buying this pixel 7 pro.
I've been playing heavily with this phone for 4 days now. It's true what they say, battery life and speakers are below par with other flagship high end mobiles. With fast charge features it may not be an issue. I can live with it. As for speakers, I can live with it. But these are nothing to bost about.
Ports: Well, Google might as well join apple in the forcing of accessories to get full workability of the device. You don't get a 3.5mm audio jack. (They want you to buy wireless earbuds) you don't even get any headphones with a usb c end. The usb c port is all you get and a single SIM slot, (dual SIM is e SIM usage)
Using the interface seems simple enough but I've noticed it lag a few time whilst the chip is making changes , like saving files or photos. Not too bad but I often wonder what the hell is happening inside this thing. Then suddenly it snaps into normality again.
File and photo's: the most bazar experience Ive ever had on a mobile is here inside the photos app. It was so messy I downloaded the Google gallery app thinking it would help. I was wrong. The two apps don't seem to want to work together and jumping between them to file picture is a nightmare. Pictures seem to be all over the place! I tried to file them in folders with some progress, but it just isn't intuitive enough for me. Then there's this pointless *lock folder" in two locations. One in photos and one in files . Ok. Good luck finding it. And if you place items there, know that they are unusable by any apps until you take them out again. Won't be using that then. The annoying thing is when you click on a photo to edit it, you have to manually move each one to the photo app before the edit button will appear with the functions you wished were just there in the viewing screen. What a nightmare! The system doesn't seem to know the difference between a file, image, photo or where to but them so its a mess. (And these are images I can clearly see them)
Touch screen: seems good. Until you use a screen protector which everyone in the right mind will do! Even with the settings on for that it's not great.(I used a thin tpu one not a thick hardened expensive one) Lots of instances I'm pressing multiple times to register touch. Out of the box it will require you to swipe a lot to move back, forward, in and out of user interfaces. It took me about an hour to get to the "all apps" page, one moment it registered In one area to swipe up then it only worked in specific areas. Still don't know how to do it if I'm honest. (I always use touch screen devices) Eventually used older style navigation buttons which are a must feature for me to use this phone. I'm annoyed about it. There's also this odd selection animation that occurs when I'm simply scrolling down a list of things, as if it thinks I'm selecting it, only for nothing to happen either way. Whhhhjyyyyyy? It's very misleading.
There is no SD card slot. (Use cloud services they'll say) oh and get charged by the month! Nah. Thankfully the phone is able to store a lot with options in local storage. If you don't have any usb c data cables and don't use wireless data transfer you'll be forkiing out for those too. Oh and a charger. (Save the planet they'll say) right.
Consumer Technology is going backwards. Features are being pulled from you and sold as the next best thing. Nah.
So what's good. For the price nothing. If you ignored the price it's a still a smart phone that will make a call, take a pic n connect you . So why this phone? No idea. Something is lost on me with this. The web will say Google has a great flag ship mobile. It doesn't. It has a smart phone with good cameras and naff apps to navigate them in.
Design: looks and feels nice. Unfortunately like many other phones the speaker is at the bottom, exactly where my littler finger goes to hold the phone blocking the sound. Wwhhhhhhyyyyyyy? I'm also unsure why the cameras are put on a raised band, it definitely going to attract more knocks and bangs like this. I also really dislike the front camera being within the touchscreen realestate. How am I supposed to cover it to reduce hackers spying on me ? (You didn't want us to do that did you )
I like how light it is and slim even with a case on. (You'll have to buy a case separately. If you do remember to take into account this phone has a rear touch button, some cases will render this nice feature useless, same goes for wireless charging).
The screen is excellent in colour, sharpness and resolution. Experiencing media content on this will be enjoyable. For me the large screen size and how I use the phone means Im very greatful for the "one handed" feature in accessibility section to quickly pull down the out of reach parts of the screen.
Google services: the Google assistant is smooth and much quicker to respond than other devices I've used. Web surfing in different browsers has been a breeze.
Annoyed at the DRM screen grab littering black images onto my phone when there is no prior warning it won't work. Might as well just prevent the action all together once in those environments followed by a notice. Some users maybe unaware of why the black image is churned out.
Given time I hope to learn to enjoy it, so far I can't say I am, and it's just an expensive phone with nothing to shout about. I will at a push give it a 7.5 out of 10, 10 being great 1 being poor.
Perhaps I can review this again at a later date. Note the phone was running android version 13, 12gb ram and 256gb storage on a brand new unopened device.
