Pixel 7 Pro

At my age, I’m not looking for my phone to become a hobby. [...] I have been using it for 3-4y on a brand new (back then) Google Pixel 7 PRO. [...] We receive security updates that other phones can take up to 6 months to receive. [...] Ironically, GOS makes me waste less time with phone, there are days that my battery is still like 78% by bed time. [...]

I've been using GOS for 3years give or take on a Pixel 7 PRO. Yes, GOS also stops you from buying new phone every year and personally, I am hopping Pixel 10 PRO is worth the upgrade, doubt it. [...] List of my open-source applications: - Aurora Store: Should be avoided, it like F-Droid have broken security in place. [...] It is a beautiful and mega lightweight offline GPS map with tons of features. [...]

My experience with my own pixel 7 pro and a pixel 5 has been that these devices are an order of magnitude lower in build quality than Samsung or iPhones. [...] My pixel 5 just stopped turning on one day about 2 years in, and my pixel 7 pro had the volume and power buttons fall out about 3 weeks in (not due to a drop, after googling it's apparently a very widely seen issue). [...] We can't submit it for a warranty repair, and if we try we end up eating the cost". [...] They still refused, and after a few more rounds of interactions like that I eventually bought some replacement buttons on Amazon, popped them in, and put a case that covers them on it. [...] Combine that with Google's extremely strong tendency to abandon everything, promises like these seem well, worthless. [...] My Samsung note 3 and my s8 still boot up and work just fine (though I cracked the screen on one about 5 years ago). [...]

I got a Pixel 7 Pro for work, and it's so laggy. Idk what a 120hz display is for when stock apps like Google Maps are running at like 30fps. I thought maybe some corp security stuff was slowing it down, but I showed it to people at work who have only ever used Android, and they thought it was normal. Outdated comparison now that Liquid Glass is lagging my phone.

[...] Just look at their out-of-warranty Pixel Watch repairs. [...] I personally had a terrible experience of this with Pixel 7 Pro that was in warranty and had a water-related damage, since then, I've stayed away from any device made by Google.

[...] I used Samsung for decades but since buying a Pixel 7 PRO to install GrapheneOS on it, I am never using another non-GrapheneOS phone again period. I can do everything, have full control over my phone, receive security updates that other phones will take half year to receive to name a few. [...]

[...] I have a Pixel 7 Pro running GrapheneOS , I am never going back to an AndroidOS, period. The level of privacy and control GOS provides is like no other, and the security update is always ahead of Google. [...]

[...] I just installed the apk on a GrapheneOS endpoint (old Pixel 7 Pro) without the Google Play Services installed. [...] Upon install with network perms the app works, and I'm getting decent performance on the Gemma-3n-E2B-it-int4 model (5-6 token/s). [...]

The Pixel 7 Pro was the worst phone I've ever owned. The battery was terrible, the camera was terrible, sometimes it just wouldn't boot up, everything about it was awful. [...]

Pixel 7 pro phones latest camera was the biggest disappointment for me. I usually have been happy with pixels but it has trouble focusing on infinity, and the image stabilization on the 5x zoom lens is so jumpy it's worse than nothing at all. [...] And to get the full advertised resolution (which you have to enable in the photo toggles) you have to tolerate a delayed shutter button and a "long exposure" for it to do the computational photography or something. [...]

I have a Pixel 7 Pro, and my Bluetooth has been fine. [...] It has my car's bluetooth device set as "trusted" so it shouldn't even require it to unlock to continue, and it's not like asking it to play something on Spotify would reveal any information about myself. Additionally, sometimes it just leaves the screen on in the off chance that it does start to play music, and I feel my pocket getting warm but there's nothing that I can do because I'm driving and I don't want to mess with my phone. If I knew that it was going to leave the screen on I would just queue up music before I leave, but it doesn't always do it and it drives me nuts. [...]

[...] I don't have an Android phone anymore, and to be potentially fair to Proton, my last Android phone was an utter piece of shit (Pixel 7 Pro). I know people who had the Pixel 7 Pro and they didn't seem to hate it, so it's possible that it had some hardware issues, but it certainly didn't seem like hardware issues. I hated that thing so much that it completely turned me off of Android for the foreseeable future, since this was not a cheap phone, and it was Google's flagship phone: if they couldn't get a good experience on the flagship product, I didn't see why the experience would be much better on anything else. [...] As stated, the iOS version of the Proton app is totally fine, I haven't had any issues with it other than I don't really like the theme, but that's hardly worth complaining about.

Already had my fill of Pixel 7 Pro problems. The screen failed to register any touches on it, twice. Once within warranty, once outside it. [...] The screen just failed to respond to touch. [...] After a factory reset, it started working, but it doesn't get much more than 12-16 hours of battery time before needing a charge. After losing a lot of money, time, and patience, I'm done with Google anything. [...] Not sure what the point is of having 7 years of updates when the phone's hardware will barely last one of those years. [...] Switched to a Samsung A54, and although it is slower and laggier in some aspects, the hardware is solid and I've been impressed at how clean OneUI is. Tip: When your Pixel screen fails to respond to touch, you can at least plug in a USB mouse and recover what you can before tossing it into the dead gadget drawer.

I use the WebCodecs API with VideoDecoder with a very specific use case, to get data arrays using the great compression of video codec and the data having temporal coherency. Demo here : And I have some issues with the copyTo method of VideoFrame, on mobile (Pixel 7 Pro) it is unreliable and output all 0 Uint8Array beyond 20 frames, to the point I am forced to render each frame to an OffscreenCanvas. Also the many formats of frame output around RGBA/R8 with reduced range 16-235 or full range 0-255 makes it hard to use in my convoluted way.

I'm on Google Pixel 7 Pro with Android 14. The amount of random UI glitches since I got the phone (recent app picker button stopped working 10 min ago, Google Photos UI not working randomly til I restart phone) is inexcusable. Samsung went from horrible laggy touchwiz to UI better than stock Android based on my experience Oh. And Android 14 update rearranged camera UI which was already fine

I own a Pixel 7 Pro (and owned the Pixel 6 Pro), and I regularly have iPhones of friends/family in my hands. Especially for the flagship Android phones like the Pixel Pros, I really don't think there is a noticable difference. They have excellent build quality, camera quality is so similar to iPhones that I couldn't tell which one is better, and on the software side I think it's a matter of being used to it (where I'm a lot more comfortable on Android).

I rolled back the camera app on the Pixel 7 Pro because it was too heavy handed and the nightshot implementation was shit. The old version still does sneaky shit to my photos and I can only count on it for snapshots. I'm using real cameras more and won't upgrade my phone until it dies.

The performance is just unacceptable, it's already 50%+ slower than a snapdragon 8 elite flagship released in the same year. [...] Complaints about battery life and the modems are fair (though I never had complaints about my Pixel 7 Pro battery life until it failed). I also found that the photos from my Pixel were by far the best I'd ever seen from a phone. Every phone I had prior was only used for quick snapshots, if I was expecting to want to take something decent I would make sure to pack my mirrorless, with the Pixel I could actually trust it to take an acceptable photo.

I upgraded from a Pixel 3XL to a Pixel 7 Pro XL. [...] Back in September 2019, my Pixel 3XL had a problem doing an OTA update. [...] But I could not create a backup from my phone. I tried rebooting the phone, but the 'Backup Now' button was still greyed out. [...] That caused my Google accounts to be logged out, but DID enable the 'Backup Now' button. [...]

[...] I bought a Pixel 7 Pro on eBay specifically so I could use Graphene (screw buying new; used is good for the planet and it doesn't give money to Google). [...] Recently I've had some privacy concerns that have made me a bit skeptical of Kagi, but it's hard for me to go back to DDG or even Google now. [...] While it is slow and bloated as hell, I like it because I share the instance with family members, and it's easier for non-techie people to use it. [...] They're overpriced and overrated, but it's too much work for me to switch at this point, and their app isn't that bad. [...] The less money they make on YouTube, the more likely they are to post on different services. [...]

When I got my Pixel 7 Pro I was shocked at how bad the battery life was, even without google play services. (came from a 5a) I love the phone, but the battery life makes me regret my purchase almost every day. Then my coworker got the Pixel 8 Pro, and it has WAY worse battery life than my 7 Pro, he even went and got a new one at the store because it was so bad it had to be a fault, but no. [...]

Well, when they added a wide lens camera to phones I think that significantly changed phone photography. In the Pixel 7 pro (and the 8 pro) they added a telephoto lens; this is another significant upgrade. Personally, I have a proper camera, but I am not carrying it around with me at all times. My phone takes excellent pictures (I have a pixel 6) but I do feel the lack of zoom. The quality of the main cameras hasn't really gone up in a few generations; but I do think there's been significant improvements in the photography department in phones in the last 5 years. Wide lens, macro photography, zoom lenses. [...] It does make me a bit angry when software is kept locked into new models when older models are perfectly capable of running it though. [...] Don't really see much of a reason to go from a Pixel 7 pro to a Pixel 8 pro, and probably not going to be the case for a few years. [...]

The camera (actually cameras) on my Pixel 7 Pro is the most over-hyped mediocrity ever. [...]

I upgraded from a Pixel 6 Pro to a Pixel 7 Pro (paid for by my employer) when my screen got cracked. As near as I can tell it's basically identical, but with the lock / volume buttons shifted slightly - so my old case doesn't fit properly, and my muscle memory is screwed up. [...] Your dishwasher comparison is quite apt to me - I bought a house last year with a dishwasher that had been badly neglected. I got it cleaned out and it's generally working reasonably, but the heated dry cycle doesn't work properly. [...]

My experience with my own pixel 7 pro and a pixel 5 has been that these devices are an order of magnitude lower in build quality than Samsung or iPhones. Subjective, I am at my third Pixel phone in six years and I never had an issue.

First day with the Pixel 7 Pro and already it has a better camera system then my just as great Pixel 6 Pro I been using for about 2 years now.

My Pixel 7 Pro I got in 2023 seems to still be going strong and aging well 3 years later.

[...] I bought it second hand and never a bother. Got this pixel 7 pro a year ago second hand and it's perfect. [...]

I'm still using a Pixel 7 Pro. It's over 3 years old now, but still takes great photos and does everything else I need. [...] I've had a few of theirs over the years - really nice!

I have used a Pixel 7 Pro for the last 2 years and feel the same way. I enjoy the hardware and the value, but the Google apps are inferior. Apple is not perfect, but their software development is more mature.

[...] Privately, I prefer Signal. [...] Been using both since day 1. On a Pixel7Pro....

1) I'm typing this in a pixel 7 pro running grapheneos. [...] App installation is a bit slow using sandboxed play store. [...]

So I was actually planning on upgrading from a Pixel 7 Pro to a Pixel 10 around the time this announcement came out last year, but have put it on hold as I wait to see what form these changes take. [...]

Yup. I bought a refurb'd Pixel 7 Pro off eBay for $250 and installed it on there and just throw it in the car when I'm driving around.

[...] I bought a cheap refurbished Pixel 7 Pro off eBay for $250 and installed GrapheneOS on it. Threw an eSim $20/m plan on it and use it as my phone when I leave the house and go IRL. [...]

I have the same browser and versions as you and it plays on my phone. Pixel 7 Pro, if that matters.

[...] I bought a second phone. [...] then I bought a second phone and installed GrapheneOS on it. [...] I only have a few contacts on it and only 2 apps that I use that are my banking app and Signal. [...] I bought a used unlocked Pixel 7 Pro off eBay for $250 so it wasnt the cheapest route but sure makes it really easy.

[...] I've been using a refurbished Pixel 7 Pro with GrapheneOS for some months and couldn't be more happy, although I still prefer to do everything on the PC. I'm too used to the big screen and real keyboard; even this 12" Thinkpad is on a different planet compared to any cellphone wrt usability. Pixels are expensive however, and so many cheap old tablets could be converted to run native Linux and be reused for a lot of tasks, from IoT/home controllers to instrumentation panels, but keeping them tight closed only makes sure they're thrown away once the OS is too old to be upgraded or run new apps.

Many phones had great waterproof ratings with a headphone socket. Nearly all phones today are thick enough for sockets, a 3.5mm would fit fine on my Pixel 7 pro. The thinness wars ended when too many people sat on their phones and bent them.

I had the same doubt, but my understanding is that all the image processing takes place before the camera app gets the image feed. Even with the OpenCamera app (which allows for manual focus control), I'm still getting the same quality of pictures on my GrapheneOS Pixel 7 Pro as with the stock OS and camera app.

[...] Tried Ogma and it worked quite well but it became too slow when approaching the million. [...] Code here: Tested it up to 5M nodes, renders above 60fps on my laptop's iGPU and on my Pixel 7 Pro. [...]

[...] Device: Pixel 7 Pro, dark mode Browser: Firefox Mobile.

I upgraded to 14 on my Pixel 7 Pro a few days ago and didn't notice any problem so far. What are the worst issues I am likely to encounter?

[...] Google shot a music video [1] (unfortunately only available in 1080p) on the Pixel 7 Pro using a third party app called MotionCam Pro. [...] I asked whether it would be feasible to shoot DNG on iOS as video and was told that iOS lacks a camera API that is performant enough, resulting in several fps only. [...]

I have a Pixel 7 Pro that I was pretty excited to get, mainly for the 5X optical zoom lens. First time I've had anything like that on a phone. Super nice!

I've had a Pixel 3 & current phone is a Pixel 7 pro and I absolutely stand by the Pixel line. I've never been more pleased with a phone tbh

My volume button fell off my Google Pixel 7 Pro and now I can't change the volume on my phone without opening settings. Might be time for a new phone, any suggestions?

Nerd reaction: I was using my Pixel 7 Pro Sunday when a flash flood wireless emergency alert (WEA) was issued. My phone, despite not being connected to a cellular network (wifi only), vibrated and displayed the WEA. I'd previously thought WEA only displayed on phones connected via cellular.

I got a case for my Pixel 7 Pro, but even without it they put the cameras in a nice bar. I feel like Apple could steal that.

I got a refurbished Google Pixel 7 Pro back in 2024, it's ace. Great battery, brilliant camera, loads of storage. Better than any Samsung I've owned.