Google Pixel 7/7 Pro & Pixel Watch
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You'll also miss the fast charging!
Other than that I'd say the pixel is a great phone.
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Just ordered a Pixel 7, haven't had a new phone in about 6 years and current phone is a 5 year old one which I took from my partner after she upgraded.
Purchased outright as it it seemed to be overly expensive getting via a mobile contact. Direct from Google with a nice discount as I have a Google One membership.
Purchased outright as it it seemed to be overly expensive getting via a mobile contact. Direct from Google with a nice discount as I have a Google One membership.
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Yes that was a consideration but as I'm not a mobile gamer and mostly WFH I think it shouldn't be too much of an issue. The fast charging must be detrimental to the battery capacity over time? We just need someone to invent a much higher density battery but that's obviously not that easy or we'd have one by now. Must be billions in it for whoever can even double the life let alone get a week's worth out of a battery.
I think this thread shows that no phone will suit anyone 100%, it's just down to what compromises are you prepared to make. Luckily there are lots of choices out there.
Nice. I found a contract, via USwitch, that worked out cheapest for me, sadly no discounts available. I usually buy outright.
I should have said the 'option' of fast charging.
It's there when you need it and not all the time.
If you go into settings>system>rules then you can set your phone to go into silent/vibrate when it gets to a certain location or connects to a certain wifi.
Useful function. I tend to use the slider to just mute the radio or use it at night. There are probably other options on the P7P I can use to replace it though.
Have to say the call quality on the P7P is amazing compared with my 7T, cuts out the background noise to nothing, even in windy conditions.
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Any obvious tricks for battery life on a 7A? Was away with work last week and it was atrocious, might have lasted a whole day but would have been touch and go, had to charge in the afternoon.
Seems OK with screen off. Streaming Tidal to Bluetooth headphones seems to rinse the battery more than I'd like, and any screen on time drains it fast.
Turned off 90hz, 5g, animations, face unlock, always OK screen etc, which has improved it, but still a bit crap.
Seems OK with screen off. Streaming Tidal to Bluetooth headphones seems to rinse the battery more than I'd like, and any screen on time drains it fast.
Turned off 90hz, 5g, animations, face unlock, always OK screen etc, which has improved it, but still a bit crap.
Pixel 3xl was a lot better. Nokia X30 much better.
I think turning off 5g has improved things....on the train journey home the phone got noticeably warm when passing through cities where it picked up 5g signal.
Compare Nokia X30 vs. Google Pixel 7a - GSMArena.com
The chips twice as powerful.
Even endurance test shows its never going to be as good. The data is there.
It's not doing any different workloads, it's not rendering web pages any faster, I'm not running games or mining Bitcoin on the damn thing.Compare Nokia X30 vs. Google Pixel 7a - GSMArena.com
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The chips twice as powerful.
Even endurance test shows its never going to be as good. The data is there.
The fact it gets warm doing relatively little work tells me there's a software issue. A modern phone shouldn't get warm unless it's fast charging or running games.
The difference in real world battery life is striking, like half the battery, Nokia could go two days no problem, the 7a is dead in less than 12 hours if you use it on and off during the day.
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Like I said the tensor is a dog. I have it in my pixel 6 pro and it's terrible. Maybe it doesn't sleep well or the modem is power hungry.
I'm hoping for a big improvement in gen 3.
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EE disables the option for you to turn off 5G. Therefore need to use hidden settings page:
- Dial *#*#4636#*#*
- Default network option is: NR/LTE/GSM/WCDMA
- Change to: LTE/TDSCDMA/GSM/WCDMA
- This excludes NR (NR is what they refer to 5G)
Amazing thank you!