It took six years, but Google finally convinced me to get a Pixel

Around the launch of the Pixel 6 series, I wrote a commentary about how those phones represented a new beginning for Google. Now, one year later, you can officially buy a Google Pixel 7 or Pixel 7 Pro — the second release in Pixel’s “second age,” as it were.

We’ve already got plenty of info on the Pixel 7 series, but I’ll spoil it for you if you haven’t been keeping track: The two phones are mostly a minor iteration of the Pixel 6 series. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing is entirely subjective, but the facts are right there on the spec sheet. Objectively, these phones simply aren’t the giant step forward we saw with the Pixel 6 phones.