Enlarge / The Pixel 7 Pro colors. The gold one on the end is called "hazel." (credit: Google)
The Google Pixel 7 and 7 Pro have been officially unveiled. While these phones were technically officially announced forever ago, Google came clean about all the details today. The big news is that the prices aren't changing: It's $599 for the Pixel 7 and $899 for the Pixel 7 Pro, which still makes both phones a very good deal. The devices ship on October 13, and Google is also doing a little better with the device's country distribution.
First, though, the phones. The Pixel 7 is an evolution of the Pixel 6, with the same sizes, prices, and basic design. That's actually a first for Google. The company's hardware division has dramatically changed phone hardware year to year, which often wasn't by choice since it would bounce from one manufacturer to another. Now, though, Google Hardware has matured to the point where operations are stable enough to make an iterative flagship, and that's probably going to be the story of the Pixel 7.
So what changes are there over the Pixel 6? The headline feature is the new aluminum camera bar, which replaces the old glass and plastic camera bar from the Pixel 6. The Pixel 6's one big sheet of glass over the camera lenses could lead to some light glare across your photos, so these smaller, more isolated lenses seem designed to prevent that. Google says the 7 Pro camera bar is polished aluminum, while the base model Pixel 7 has a sandblasted matte finish.
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