Like clockwork, we’re coming into one of many busiest components of the yr with an avalanche of cool new units. The Google Pixel collection is a landmark now, and we’re enthusiastic about as we speak’s launch of the brand new Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional.
Final yr’s Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Professional represented a flip for the higher with many enhancements over the Pixel 5, with notably a major escalation of the digicam {hardware} within the Pixel 6 Professional as noticed by our CAMERA HW rating. Google got here again into the race, competing on the highest ranges.
The brand new Google Pixel 7 collection is an improve, refinement, and optimization of the Pixel 6 collection as Google capitalizes on final yr’s herculean effort.
The economic design is seeing modifications however sticks to the general design language that was nicely obtained final yr. The modifications make the brand new telephones look extra fashionable, and the manufacturing high quality has elevated.
The brand new polished aluminum digicam bar of the Pixel 7 Professional provides it an additional “premium” look, whereas the Pixel 7 (non-pro) will get a matte model. It’s glorious positioning utilizing design as an instrument.
Google is thought for its “pure Android” expertise and lengthy dedication to software program updates, and nothing has modified on that entrance. Design apart, there are features of those new Pixel 7 telephones we need to appeal to your consideration to, specifically the Digicam and Computing.
The digicam is essentially the most thrilling side for almost all, so let’s get to it. The Pixel 7 Professional’s digicam is configured as follows:
- 50 MP main (OIS, 1.2μm pixels, ƒ/1.85, 1/1.31” sensor)
- 12 MP ultra-wide (1.25μm pixels, ƒ/2.2)
- 48 MP telephoto (OIS, 0.7μm pixels, ƒ/3.5, 5X optical)
- 8MP selfie (1.22μm pixels, ƒ/2.2, fixed-focus)
This configuration is well-balanced (for the value) and may cowl all on a regular basis use instances very nicely. We’ll compute the CAMERA HW rating in our full overview, however this seems fairly good.
Google is utilizing its telephoto in two methods. It shoots natively at 5X optical zoom in 48MP. Alternatively, it will probably zoom even additional utilizing a sensor-cropping method, like what Samsung has in a few of its Galaxy telephones.
Sensor-cropping makes use of solely a fraction of the sensing floor with out merging pixels to protect particulars. That’s like having a smaller sensor with a lens that zooms additional. Sensor cropping is often not so good as having an optical equal, however it’s a lot better than software program upscaling.
The Pixel 7’s digicam could be very comparable however forgoes the telephoto – a selection is usually discovered between totally different tiers of telephones. It makes a variety of sense as a result of ultrawide is objectively a extra frequent use case than zoom – that’s why OEMs make this tradeoff for extra reasonably priced telephones.
- 50 MP main (OIS, 1.2μm pixels, ƒ/1.85, 1/1.31” sensor)
- 12 MP ultra-wide (1.25μm pixels, ƒ/2.2 – totally different lens)
- 8MP selfie (1.22μm pixels, ƒ/2.2, fixed-focus)
You get nearly all the photographic advantages of the Pixel 7 Professional, besides when the topic is much away. Within the $599 vary, that is very thrilling.
Concerning computing, Google makes use of its Tensor G2 processor to supply glorious assist for all imagery actions that rely closely on stream computing and AI.
Google has demonstrated some long-exposure photographs, which have been practically 4X sooner, going from 5.25s all the way down to 1.25s. That also needs to have an effect on near-instant pictures or video recording, which we’re rather more involved in.
That mentioned, the competitors (Qualcomm, MediaTek) can also be able to doing such issues, and there’s no cross-platform benchmark to check them apples-to-apples.
The Pixel 7 Professional has 12GB of RAM, in order that’s the one heavy app customers ought to contemplate, because the 8GB of RAM within the Pixel 7 ought to suffice for everybody with extra fundamental wants.
Storage choices are 128/256GB for each, however solely the Pixel 7 Professional will get a 512GB model for those who want that a lot.
Each telephones can be found for pre-order as we speak for $599 and $899 on the official Google retailer, but additionally from carriers reminiscent of AT&T (pre-order right here), which additionally says that in-store models will arrive on Oct 13. As ordinary, for those who sign-up on a brand new AT&T plan, you would get the Pixel 7 totally free, and the provider says it affords “as much as” $800-off on the Pixel 7 Professional
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