Google Pixel 7 Pro – Unlocked Android 5G smartphone with telephoto lens, wide-angle lens and 24-hour battery – 256GB – Obsidian (US)

Personally I didn't like this device as it doesn't support 5g in KSA and also software needs major improvements

There are a lot of online reviews for this phone by professional journalists, so here's my down and dirty review.The good:- The camera is awesome. Great zoom!- Google software updates every month, unlike many phones through carriers.- The fingerprint reader works well for an in-screen reader, though I am not using a screen protector (and this scares me).- Beautiful screen with vibrant colors.- Battery is just okay, but it should be enough to get you through the day.The bad:- The screen is curved ever so slightly, but enough to dissuade the use of common glass screen protectors. I'm not going to try and use plastic or glued on glass screen protectors. This will be the first nude phone screen I've had in years.- Though the fingerprint reader works great (*with no screen protector), I would prefer the old school reader on the back like the early Pixels. It was so much more natural to use than placing a finger on the screen.- This phone is as slippery as a wet bar of soap, so a case is a must unless you have Spider-Man fingers. I know most modern, high-end phones are slippery, which I find just does not make sense.These cons are enough for me deduct one star. Your preferences may differ.Not really a pro or con, but I miss the days of Nexus phones being rather low priced compared to other brands with similar specs. Was Google making other manufacturers angry or did they want a bigger slice of Samsung's profits?

I really hate the programming/human factors. I think this phone is going back. This is the first phone I have ever bought that I really hated. Here's the problem:They placed the "At A Glance" app on the home screen so that it shows up as the date and temperature. It is a small app, about 2 icons wide. Click on it and you get your reminders. However, you can't add anything else on that line. Also, you can't remove it or even move it. WTF? I want the clock widget on that line. I want the calendar on the 3rd screen. Pixel doesn't give me that choice.Also, the Google search app is fixed on the home screen. I don't need it there at all since I can say "Hey Google" and the app will open.I buy a new phones every year or two for my wife and myself. I have been using android phones since they were first introduced and have mostly liked them. I had a Samsung S20+ and wanted to get rid of the bloatware so I bought the 7pro to solve that problem. This phone is not the answer. All I did was trade one problem for a problem that was in my opinion, much worse. I thought the benefit of Android was the ability to customize everything. If I wanted a phone that I couldn't customize, I would have bought an iPhone._________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________I've used the phone for a couple of days and have some additional comments to give the review some balance.2 things I like and 2 more I don't like:Positives:This phone easily supports video calling which is a nice feature. The down side is you need to think about what you are wearing. For spouses that are out of town, it can keep the home fires burning.Phone messages are automatically copied to text at no charge. This makes it easy to review any messages without having the hassle of replaying them.More negatives:There is no speed dialing. If you want to call someone on your special calling list, you have to look for the photo and press it. I strongly prefer speed dialing with the phone app opening to the keypad.The navigation bar is really screwed up. It is possible to turn on a navigation bar if you play with the settings. However, the buttons are reversed from the standard layout. The back button is on the left and the open apps button is on the right. You can find an acceptable navigation app in the Play Store, but the system version bleeds through until you play around with the transparency of the navigation bar. If you turn off the system navigation bar, the area for the bar is really cramped.In my opinion, the bad far outweighs the good. If I were in charge of the Pixle team, I would have to have a major software rewrite. There is no reason for hardware this good to be handicapped by programmers that have written software this buggy.I still give it one star. If I had the choice, I might change it to one and a half stars but not two stars.

So first off this is a rectangular piece of equipment and most other phones can do what it does. I'm going to talk about a couple of features that make this insanely good and a couple of places where it fails to Samsung's ecosystem.Let's start with the fail - Samsung wins in the game manager, multi-window, multi-tasking, and unlocking realms. The Pixel is amateurish in its multi-window / multi-app approach in comparison, and the fact that the game center that Google has doesn't have a mute this game option is appalling.Now onto the win - the voice recognition is amazing... well, quick caveat on that it's amazing after a week or so of ownership. It quite had the dumbs when I first got the phone and learned me. It does offline / on phone translation when it learns you and it's a lot faster and better voice to text experience than I've had on any other phone. It's at least twice as fast and significantly more responsive than it is on my S21 Ultra, which has a faster processor in theory.Using the phone as a phone is delightful - it doesn't ring for scammers, spammers, etc... that's a setting I had to set... the phone will answer and screen calls on the device giving you a voice-to-text display of what they're saying to try and get you to answer. My phone rings very seldomly now. I love it.There are a bunch of call options that make the device feel like someone who used a telephone actually had some input...Unfortunately the monthly updates generally break something. Google's doing a lot of improvements but not a lot of evident testing. When I bought the phone, if I set a new alarm I knew I would wake up and the phone would be nearly dead on the wireless charger. Adaptive charging whether on or off and a new alarm = dead phone on a perfectly good wireless charger. This was mostly fixed, but still an occasional issue.I mention that one because it was reported in February 2022 on the pixel lines and it still is an occasiona problem in January 2023 with the Dec 2022 update.Good phone, extremely good as a telephone...

I only had this phone for about 3 weeks. Weeks 1-2, the phone was fine. The features all worked, especially the voice-to-text features, which are important to me as I work in service at customer's sites and have to enter a lot of text into an android app. The pixel voice to text is second to none. However, on week 3, my phone cuts in and out during calls, so that every 3-5 seconds of working call is met with 3-5 seconds of skipped audio-both ways, no matter what type of caller I am on the phone with. Obviously this was not acceptable, so I tried to contact google technical support. I wouldn't wish that experience on any other human, I don't believe they were interested in solving the problem as much as waste your time so that you give up. I am able to return this to amazon thankfully and pull out my old Samsung A52 with a worn out battery, but thankfully it does have 2 way audio on calls. I was not aware it was possible to take this big of a step backwards in technology. If you have a functional entry level phone, do not exchange it for a pixel. My Pixel was the 256GB 7 Pro in obsidian, would not recommend.