 I changed my phone after five years and do I regret it. What's up internet? I had no intention of replacing my old phone, a OnePlus 5T, but my kids had other plans and they broke it. Now, I was really happy with the OnePlus 5T but it was a forced upgrade so I decided to upgrade to the Google Pixel 7. Legit, safe and pinakamura, madadila o mortar. Hanapin ang widows version na gusto mo piliin ang preferred paper and pencil. Wala pang 5 minutes na si Zika na para sa windows mo. Maraming na kaming na tulungan. Date? Second departure ko? But now, I'm from the love of my life. Date? Ing-less ang walang purpose ang life ko. But now, I'm a world-class Zumba instructor. So web developer ako and content creator for a YouTube channel and ngayon ganun pa rin ako pero activated na yung windows ko. Kayakon naghanap ka ng Legit, mura at original software. Check out CDKoffer.com Check out CDKoffer.com Check out CDKoffer.com The OnePlus 5T was pretty good back in the day but it was a mid-range phone, not considered a flagship phone. Unlike the Pixel 7, which is basically flagship as it is very similar to the Pixel 7 Pro which was the top of the line. With impending release of the Pixel 8 this year, the Pixel 7 has been seeing some very juicy price cuts. So is this a phone that you should consider especially if you're thinking of considering upgrading from an older, less modern phone? First, the screen is gorgeous. The screen of my old phone was no slouch but the screen of the Pixel 7 blows it out of the water. Colors are vivid, even intricate scenes like this nature shot. Now, cellphone screens are small that is easy for colors to look smudged and smear together and cheaper quality displays have problems with this, not the Pixel 7. Some power screens also struggle with displaying outdoors in very bright light. Their brightness can't compensate high enough. Not a problem with the Pixel 7 which I've used in direct sunlight many times and it doesn't miss a beat. Fluidity of animations is also very good so everything feels smooth. This is a 90Hz screen which is good that's comfortably above mid-range although top-tier phones usually have 120Hz now. I do have to admit though that the Apple transitions and animations still feel smoother on their phones and it pains me to say this because I don't even like Apple. Now, one of the supposed highlights of the Pixel 7 is its superior camera quality and I did get this phone with that in mind. I figured it would be super helpful to have a very competent video and picture recorder with me wherever I go and the hype for the camera of the Pixel 7 is real. Detail and look of the photos and videos are stellar a lot better than my old phone. Most of the pics we see on the Hardware Sugar Facebook were taken with the Pixel 7. Most of the images we use for thumbnails for YouTube if I'm the one submitting the photos also come from the Pixel 7. So the images are high quality enough that we can even edit them. There's enough info. It looks sharp enough in the raw image that we have enough there to edit with. 99% of the time when I need a photograph even for work, I just use my Pixel 7 instead of pulling out my Sony ZV-E10. It also comes with some neat software tricks like this easy-to-use photobomber removal tool. Although software can also be its undoing. For most modern phones, the trick to getting better photos is in the software. AI tweaks the image automatically color corrects it if you will to match what it thinks we expect to see from a photograph or a video. This AI on the fly though can get confused sometimes as with this video of my son swinging in the park. As he swings closer to me, the phone thinks that it wants to focus on brown, the skin tones. So everything else in the photograph even including the grass becomes noticeably more brown. And as he swings away, the phone again is calculating on the fly and thinks that okay, maybe I don't want to focus on skin tones, maybe it should be more about nature. So the green seeps back into the photo and you can see this again in the grass. On one hand, it's impressive that the AI is trying to figure out what is going on in a live scene adjusts accordingly without any performance hit. At the same time though, the changes on the fly don't necessarily translate to a better video. In this case, the transition between colors, the shifting is quite jarring. Outside of these occasional weird situations though, the photos and videos have been stellar. One of the main reasons I got the Pixel 7 was because of this opposite camera quality. Again, it would be easier for me for the work that I do for hardware sugar and it has not disappointed. Small side note, it does take video in HEVC file format and that's no problem. Windows will play it natively without having to do anything else. But if you try to edit that in DaVinci Resolve, you won't be able to. It won't read the video properly and you'll need to convert it first into another codec. Not really Google's fault but it's kind of annoying on the part of Microsoft where you can get the codec needed for DaVinci Resolve but you have to pay. Very niche complaint and more directed really at Microsoft rather than Google. For the guts of the phone, the Google Pixel 7 does use a G2 Tensor chip. So that's a second-gen Tensor chip of Google and that's a big deal because Google started following the lead of Apple and has started to natively design the hardware running in its phones. The Google chips currently are based off of Samsung Exynos chips and that's an advantage for Google and also as proven by Apple because basically native software runs better on native hardware. You can make programs run better if you are able to tailor the hardware that is actually running those programs. What this means for real-world use is that the Pixel 7 has very fast and snappy response time whether it's transferring files using an app, watching videos, swiping right to delete an email in the Gmail app, everything happens without any discernable lag. The response between the user doing something and its outcome on the phone is pretty much instantaneous. Now the phone does get a bit hot so a lot of this processing does generate a lot of heat even just reading text but with the internet on for a prolonged period even when the screen set in dark mode the phone does get noticeably hot in your hand. You can feel it working through the heat but response time remains the same no lag at all. Now I started using the Pixel 7 well after the launch date and I have not encountered any problems. I guess the platform is already mature it is regularly updated by Google so assuming at those problems stem from software they all seem to have been ironed out now. There were earlier reports also of some of the glass cracking especially around the visor which is the signature look of the Pixel line. I have actually had the opposite observation. As mentioned, my kid destroyed my old phone and she has started to experiment on my new phone. So this phone has been dropped a lot not throw it against the wall kind of drop but accidental kind of bumps and sometimes the one or two occasional falls. But the phone is quite sturdy everything still works no discernible scratches and actually my experience with the build quality has been pretty good. I don't put a case on my phone because I figure any case kind of ruins the look for me so my phone is always naked every time it falls it has fallen just on the body itself and it has weathered everything admirably. Now, I'm not saying you go out of your way to drop it or to be careless with it but it can't take a knock or two without looking the worst for wear. My primary concern with the Pixel 7 in terms of build quality was the visor because it juts out of the back of the phone every time you rest your phone on something whether you're charging or you're just putting it down for a moment it will be resting on that visor and that is where the lens for the camera is. So I was really afraid of the lens surrounding that protruded part on the visor would get all danged up and my camera quality the videos, the photos would suffer because of that. Now my fears were unfounded I have set the phone down many times on its visor resting on that kind of back plate and there has been no discernible decrease in the quality of photos or videos and no discernible scratches on the visor itself. So happy to report that that was an unfounded personal fear of mine and it turns out the visor is actually pretty good as a grip if you want to hold the phone for video watching purposes you can use your hand you can shape your hand into a sort of claw and grip it using the visor there's just enough space with the visor protruding from the body of the phone to serve as a surface to latch onto. The overall quality extends to the battery life now I'm not a heavy cell phone user the most that I usually demand from a phone is several hours straight of turning on the internet and turning on the hotspot because I need it as my primary internet connection while I'm out on the go. For situations like that I probably would have enough charge for 24 hours maybe a little bit more if I stretch the battery if I'm just doing basic things with it taking calls, sending texts for sure the phone would last 2 days or maybe even longer so hindi ka mabibitin sa battery life it will store enough juice to satisfy most needs for a reasonable amount of time so far it's been all good but I do have to confess I don't like the modern design aesthetic of the candy bar approach so that's kind of like the thicker fatter phone this is actually the same size as my old phone but I thought it was actually smaller because my old phone was flatter and thinner than the Pixel 7 it just feels a bit bulkier than my old phone less sleek, less unobtrusive definitely there will be a noticeable bulge if you carry this in your front pocket or back pocket not as bad as some of the Apple phones which are chunkier but the Pixel 7 definitely is thicker than my old phone and I'm not liking that extra chunkiness now I understand if that's an unfair critique because we keep demanding more things from our phones and so manufacturers have to keep putting in more and more hardware to keep up with all of the demand from the user but perhaps they should consider a design aesthetic where you flatten the phone a little bit you make the screen a bit bigger so yes, while you have an overall larger phone the thickness is thinner and while I'm dissing conventional wisdom here's another thing I don't like constant updates now one of the key features of getting a Google phone is that you get the updated software before everybody else if there's an update it's released first on the Google phones and that sounds great who doesn't want to be in line for an update you know who doesn't like getting updated all the time Windows users were so used to getting these unnecessary updates from Microsoft kadalingo na lang may update kadalingo na lang you need to take time out to update your system and it's kind of like how I feel about Google's constant updates yes, there are some important ones particularly security but a lot of them just deal with new features or apps that I don't really use Google Home, Google Wi-Fi, whatever there are updates perhaps improvements but these are updates and improvements that I will never need and never use so while it is nice to have that you're first in line I don't think it should be a big consideration and that a lot of reviewers hype it up just so that they have something to say but in terms of actual usefulness being first in line even with something like there's a zero-day exploit and you need to update right away malware spreading again through Android a lot of users don't need that super quick update and again I'm not saying you should eliminate it but I'm saying it's not something that you need to take critically into your decision if you're deciding to buy a Google phone one thing that hasn't been improved on for my old phone is that the Android software just can't figure out when I want to unlock the phone many many times with my old phone and many many times with the Pixel 7 I just have it in my pants and the next thing I know when I open it nabuksan na pala siya dati while it was in my pants and kung anon na nangyayari it went to my email it started surfing some random thing I don't know it got activated in my pants this is a long running problem and I just can't quite figure out why Android can't just stay locked yun lang naman hiniyiko sa kanya stay locked until I knock on you you know I press on you and I let you know that hey we gotta do some work so miscellaneous stuff which I actually did find useful is the wireless charging this wasn't present on my 1 plus 5P before and it seems like a simple thing but when you've tried it like you just have to put the phone on a pad instead of hunting around for another wire and then hunting around for the port on your phone to plug it in just putting your phone down to charge is a noticeably better user experience and this is a small thing which not a lot of people comment on but I found it to be genuinely useful so bottom line this is a good phone which I enjoyed using but I didn't fall in love with it it's kind of like having an old friend which you can hang out with for forever like the entire day several hours you're having a good time there's nothing annoying about the experience and you genuinely want to spend time with them but you don't go to sleep at night thinking about a good friend you don't wake up at the start of the day thinking that yes I am going to have another day with my Pixel 7 it doesn't excite you at the start of your day so it is a very good upgrade especially if you're coming from considerably older Android phone if you don't want to think too much anymore about your next cell phone purchase you're comfortable with Android the Pixel 7 is a good phone at a good price right now Google doesn't disappoint but it doesn't really 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