1 year and 4 month left of android updates for a phone that’s nearly $500 bucks? No thanks.
Worst phone I’ve ever owned. Not surprised it’s < half price already. Still too much.
Pixel 7 is supported for security updates until 10/27. I know Android updates show only until 10/25 so this may deter some buyers. The bigger deterrence to me is that you can get the new Pixel 8A with 256gb storage for $559 with a $100 Google store credit as an added bonus. This really doesn’t seem to be a great deal.
How is it that a multi-million dollar company not have basic grammar and punctuation checking before something is posted?
You don’t use an apostrophe to pluralize words. I learned this in third grade.
I bought this a few weeks back for $500 for the 512GB and it’s been pretty good thus far. It’s a phone. It works well. That’s about as much as I’d say about it but it’s very fast and the battery, at least for now, is insanely good
Been using this phone for a year or so and it’s fine, no problems. All I do with it is text and take pictures, I could see it being slow if you game. The dealbreaker here is the stupid curved screen. I have had two phones with curved screens and both have broken. I think I’m going to switch to a Samsung Galaxy S-Whatever-Plus for the same form factor with a better processor and a flat screen, whenever a reasonable deal comes up.
The fact that you made a typo in this complaint really cracked me up. 
Likely OS updates and you will continue to receive security patches.
Just for all the Pixel whiners - I have a Pixel 7 and I’m very happy with it - if I had an older phone and wanted to upgrade, I’d consider this for the telephoto lense on it. I like the fact that the OS is always as secure as can be (monthly patches), the battery lasts longer then my previous OnePlus phone (and I have a charger everywhere I spend time, so I never worry about batteries on phones), and I don’t have any crap that cell providers want to put on my phone.
With the Pixel 8a just around the corner, I’d probably go with the 8a for the newer OS/processor tech, but I’d still like the telephoto from these Pro editions.
The phone is 18 months old. Every phone is $0.50 on the dollar if it’s 18 months old in Android land. Go look for an s22 ultra which came out just 2 months later and it’s like hundred bucks or less than half of what it cost when it came out.
There are a lot of Samsung and Apple users in the western market and they love to trash anything that’s not Apple or Samsung.
They hate pixels, OnePlus, Sony, Motorola, xiaomi, anything that needs to be imported etc.
But it should be mentioned that the pixel has unambiguously dominated mhkbds blind test 3 years in a row, including most notably the last 2 years when he elo ratings in had a sample size of over 22 million votes. All three pixels finished in first place and second both years. Absolutely dwarfing the more expensive s22 and s23 ultra and iPhone 14 and 15 respectively. Even the 6A and 7A finished easily ahead of both of those phones.
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Now look the pixels do have their flaws mostly because of the Samsung modem and fabricated chip (still absolutely performant chip. It’s just not very efficient and probably gets 20 to 25% less battery life then a similar chip made by tsmc instead of fabricated by Samsung l.
If you really want optimal performance and battery life then yes you’re probably better off with the OnePlus 12 or 12R or something with a 8g2 or 3.
But there’s really not a lot to be gained from having more performance than what you’re getting with tensor 2. 0. I understand complaining about battery efficiency but there’s virtually. Nothing you can do on an eight gen 3 that you can’t do on a tensor 2.
The vast majority of games don’t even allow you to push extremely high frame rides anyways. Basically ever since 2019 or so we’ve been so comically overpowered at the flagship level that I’ve stopped paying any attention to benchmarks beyond performance over sustained load.
You also get really cool quality of life features like assistant scanning, class leading astrophotography mode, class leading voice recording app. A free VPN which can save you anywhere from eight bucks a month to 50 bucks a year.
The downside might be that if you’re patient, you could probably get the pixel 8 pro at a similar price in 6 months after the pixel 9 comes out and that gets 7 years of ohs updates and 7 years of security patches instead of three and five.
And it has a flat screen if that’s your thing.
You can also find the pixel 7 pro refurbished on Amazon for like $350 with 256 GB or I think Best buy had them as well.
I don’t know if you can find a better deal for $350 bucks for a refurbished phone… Maybe the OnePlus 12R if you can get the student coupons. I’ve heard with the $100 trade in any phone deal. Some people are getting that as low as 370 but the MSRP is $5.99 so you have to be a real aggressive shopper.
Otherwise the best Samsung you’re probably going to get for under $500 bucks would be used s21 ultra or s22 plus. Maybe if you’re really lucky a used base model s23 with a 1080p screen.
Although the thinkphone is really compelling. So I don’t know it would be an honest fight between the OnePlus 12R, OnePlus 11, think phone, pixel 8, pixel 7 pro… At around 400 bucks, the best Samsung you’re going to get is probably like an s22 or an s21 Fe or something. And that’s just one reason why I don’t think they’re great value
A used pixel is like a cheat code. I felt similarly about LG in the past when they were still around
I will say the biggest frustration for modern pixels for me is not performance or battery but charging speeds.
Samsung and Apple are not much better, but if you’re at experienced with OnePlus, Oppo, xiaomi…
I’ve been playing around with a OnePlus 12R and it can charge 0 to 100 faster. My pixel 6 pro charges 80 to 100.
I don’t know what it is but Samsung Google and Apple have been laughably slow with fast charging. People like to say it’s a feature and not a bug because it helps your battery but that’s nonsensical. You could always make the default setting adaptive charging or slow charging, not to mention you could include a proprietary charger in the box that’s optimal for maximum battery health.
Nothing to stop you from using a 18 w charger or even if you have 80 watt charging capabilities. And it’s strange that that companies refusing to get on board with fast charging also happen to be the ones that refuse to provide you a brand name charger in the box
So they really don’t have much credibility if it comes to battery health and preservation. If they’re not even willing to provide you with an optimal tool to charge your phone.
This is quite the deal. Their top of the line model from last year for less than half the price. Tempting.
There’s a big difference between the Pro and A versions of Pixel phones, even a model number apart. The A phones are their budget line.
That said, I am happy with my 6A.