The Google Pixel 7 Pro will be available for purchase from Thursday (October 13th), but you might be interested in checking out this walkthrough by PBK . Reviews (Opens in a new tab) before buying.
Not only is it interesting to see inside what’s likely to be one of the best phones of the year, but the video also shows how Google made the design better and worse than the Google Pixel 6 Pro.
As the PBK unlocks the phone and shows parts like the cameras, circuitry, and many, many more screws, many of them look like the Pixel 6 Pro from last year. One notable change, however, is that there’s more thermal tape spread across the Tensor G2 chipset and the top of the battery, which hopefully means the phone stays cool when the chip is running at full power.
This can be especially useful when gaming or using 5G for an extended period of time, which can make many phones somewhat warm and sometimes uncomfortable to the touch.
Annoyingly, Google has once again committed what must be cardinal sins to fix the phone with the Pixel 7 Pro. For example, the USB-C port is soldered to the main circuit board, which contains the chipset, SIM tray, and main microphone. Since the charging port is one of the most easily damaged areas of a phone, replacement means a whole new motherboard, adding to the expense and parts required to swap out what would otherwise have been a simple repair.
The battery occupies a large part of the phone body, including pull tabs for easy removal. But it’s also very sticky, and requires dissolving with isopropyl alcohol before the PBK can remove it from the phone. Another battery component that gets replaced often, so it’s a shame to see that it’s also difficult to remove.
After disassembling as much as he could, PBK rated the Pixel 7 Pro 5.5 out of 10 for repair, before putting the phone back together and restarting it without a hitch. Looking at the other scores of PBK, the Pixel 7 Pro loses to the iPhone 14 Pro Max (rated 6.5 / 10 (Opens in a new tab)) and Galaxy S22 Ultra (Rated 7.5 / 10 (Opens in a new tab)). This is also lower than what PBK rated for the Pixel 6 Pro (which scored 6/10 (Opens in a new tab)), although in this case it’s not clear what made the Pixel 7 Pro half a point worse than these two very similar phones.
In our hands-on Pixel 7 Pro, we were unable to open the phone to assess its guts. However, our initial impressions are that it is a neat looking phone with high quality cameras and screen, plus it has some useful software features like Photo Unblur. You can expect our full thoughts on this phone and the regular Pixel 7 very soon.
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