Google Pixel 7 Pro

 Google Pixel 7 Pro

If money is no object, the Google Pixel 7 Pro is the best Google phone you can buy right now. It fixes the main complaints we had with its predecessor — battery, thermals, and buggy software — while refining and doubling down on what was already great: camera and AI smarts. We wouldn’t call the Pixel 7 Pro a huge upgrade over the Pixel 6 Pro, but the improvements and refinements it brings are certainly noteworthy and welcome.

The Pixel 7 Pro looks identical to its predecessor from the front, featuring a big curved display and slim bezels. But turn it over, and you’ll notice quite a few changes. The signature two-tone finish of the Pixel 6 Pro is gone, replaced with a more generic-looking single-color finish. And that distinct black camera bar has been replaced by a polished aluminum frame that has two cutouts for the camera lenses. The front and back are protected by Gorilla Glass Victus, while the IP68 rating means you don’t have to worry about dirt and water splashes damaging your device.

The Google Pixel 7 Pro sports a gorgeous 6.7-inch AMOLED display with 3120 x 1440 or QHD+ resolution. It’s a high refresh rate LTPO display that can smoothly scale its refresh rate between 120Hz and 10Hz. The Pixel 7 Pro panel also gets brighter, offering 1000 nits max brightness and 1500 nits peak brightness.

On the inside, the Pixel 7 Pro packs Google’s newest in-house chipset: Tensor G2. While CPU and GPU performance is similar to last year’s chipset, the new chipset is significantly faster in machine learning and camera processing tasks.

As you would expect, the Pixel 7 Pro also gets the best camera hardware, featuring a 50MP primary shooter that’s unchanged from the last model, a 48MP telephoto lens with 5x optical and 30x digital zoom, and a 12MP ultra-wide camera that also doubles as a macro lens. In addition, there are some new AI-powered photography features such as Photo Unblur, Guided Frame, and Cinematic Unblur.

The 5,000mAh battery is unchanged from last year, but with Tensor G2’s efficiency improvements and software optimizations, we can expect the Pixel 7 Pro to deliver even better battery life. On the software side, the phone runs Android 13 out of the box, with Google promising three years of OS updates and five years of security updates.

Other highlights include an improved fingerprint reader, NFC, UWB support, wireless charging support, dual-band GPS, and Bluetooth 5.2.