Good solid phone, does everything you need really well, camera is brilliant, try macro! Took me a little while to get used to operation and accessing open apps but grey now I now the gestures etc only moan is about the power on button and volume placement, I accidentally turn the phone off when trying to adjust volume! Must have fat fingers

Mobile with excellent writeups by critics and review organisations.
It is probably the purest to straight Android that you will get.
The camera is excellent
The battery life is not great. I’d provide times but that wouldn’t tell the whole story. It does tend to get hot for no particular reason that I can isolate and when it does, its battery life plummets. I now don’t keep it in a pocket close to my body. At the end of a busy day, it might have 60% battery life left or it might be flat. And it charges very slowly. I leave it on all night for that reason.
There’s no slot for a second SIM nor a micro SD. Dont mind the former – I use an old mobile when travelling abroad. Having copied everything across, my old one retains a copy of contacts etc. And if I don’t use a sim card, I can’t be charged roaming. Just use free wifi. However, I’m getting capacity anxiety already.
My old mobile had a 512gb card in the slot.
The camera panel on the back of the mobile projects quite a distance but its nicely smoothed and looks quite good. Android 13 means it’s right up to date.
Would I buy again? Probably unless an equivalent spec arrived at a similar price with a MiniSD card slot.

I bought to replace a Vod contract Huawei Mate 20 Pro which had given great service, and into follow on Sim only years
Decided to buy a new phone and continue Sim only this time.
The Pixel 7 PRO is pretty much what I wanted.
Nice display, nice size, gentle rounding of corners.
I haven’t mastered all the camera features yet , especially the panorama option.
I considered a Samsung 23 Ultra but was immediately put off when I looked at one: too big, corners too sharp squared. The Pixel phone much better for less money.

Well, if I’m honest, it IS the best phone I’ve had. Given the opportunity, I’d have stuck with my ancient OnePlus 4, but after a few years without security updates, I didn’t like the idea so much. I tried a Galaxy S12 plus, but somehow never got on with it. It felt clunky and awkward in spite of the much faster SOC etc. Then the Pixel 7 pro. I love it. It feels smooth and fantastically responsive. It has a wonderful screen. The camera is as good as my Lumix SLR (not really, but it is amazing for such a tiny unit). Everything feels right and just works. Face and fingerprint recognition are fast and work. Everything they say in those glowing online reviews seems to be true.

I’ve not had a phone with facial recognition before, so having this feature was a pleasant surprise. The fingerprint reader doesn’t always identify my print on the first time, but that doesn’t really matter as the facial recognition makes up for it. I did put a screen protector on my phone, that severely hampered the recognition systems, so I removed it.
The phone has plenty of features that my Pixel 3 did not have, I’m working my way through the various optons it offers and I am pleasantly surprised with its versitility.
The camera is very good and was one of the reasons why I chose this model. Colour reproduction is excellent. I haven’t as yet discovered how to access and use all the options the camera aparently offers. This is work in progress and I’m sure with a bit more practice ans usage its secrets will be revealed.
The only downer is that I found the case to be slippy, buying a protective case seems to have solved that issue. Overall I’m very pleased with my purchase and would recommend it to others.

I decided to try Pixel after several years of Samsung phones.

Coming from a Samsung z flip 3 (which needed charged 3 times a day) the battery life on the pixel is AMAZING!

Charging is slow, you don’t get a wall charger in the box and I cannot find a wireless charger that works with this phone. However, plug it in overnight on a 30w charger and phone will very comfortably last from 6am to 1030pm with around 30% battery left.

The fingerprint reader is by far the best I’ve ever used on any phone, it never fails.

My only minor grumbles are that bedtime mode switches on and removes colour even if you are watching a full screen movie, I can’t find a way of backing up my photos to anything other than Google, the standard ringtones / alerts are too quiet (I had to download some) and the phone’s themes / system colour palettes are rather dull (I’m used to bright and colourful themes from Samsung).

Overall though I am very pleased with this phone and I think for the price it is fantastic. You won’t get better value for money elsewhere

I bought this phone mainly for it’s camera as I was keen to get a bit more artistic with my photography. It certainly didn’t disappoint. There are loads of nice features on the camera, including macro and zoom, grid lines can be switched on to help with composition, the object you want to focus on can be locked, and much much more. It is excellent in low light and you can also do time lapse photography. I found the best way to learn of all the capabilities and how to use them was to watch instructional YouTube videos to learn.
At 6.7 inches it is a large phone so you need to be prepared for that. The screen is crisp and clear.
Photo’s are stored in google photo’s but as I was out of storage I had to download a gallery app. In fact storage is the only main complaint I have. There is nowhere to mount a SD card or dual Sim. So as I wanted to take a lot of pictures and videos I bought a SD Card Reader, USB 3.0 & USB C External Memory Card Adapter for SD/Micro SD which is relatively cheap and I can download my pics and video’s onto a SD card that way and thus free up the phone from storage.
Charging was relatively quick with a usb c cable as the phone will support up to 30w but you can charge wirelessly. You will need to buy a charger plug for the usb c cable if you haven’t already got them.
The in display fingerprint sensor I found to be poor. More often than not it doesn’t recognise it and I have to input a 4 digit code.
As far as using it as a phone is concerned. All the controls are straight forward and simple to use. The sound is good and when taking calls background noise appears to be blocked out somewhat.
At first, the only way I could find to switch on the Do not Disturb function was to go through settings and then sounds, this was a real pain. However, with playing around I found that if you pull down the quick settings menu there is an edit icon on the bottom right and if you press on that it takes you to lots of quick setting possibilities, one of which is the Do Not Disturb, so I have now added that to my quick settings menu.
I have only had the phone less than a week so still learning all it’s capabilities but so far I really love it. The only negatives I have found so far is the previously mentioned temperamental fingerprint sensor and the lack of SD card/storage but as I explained I have found a work around for that.