Pixel 10 Pro after 100 days — just get the Pixel 10

Google’s Pixel 10 Professional is a good telephone. I’ve been utilizing one for 100 days now, and it’s been strong the entire time. Not excellent, however actually good. The factor is, most individuals are in all probability higher off saving some cash and shopping for the Pixel 10 as a substitute.

On paper, the Pixel 10 and 10 Professional have a couple of notable variations and a ton of similarities. The telephones are the identical dimension, practically the identical weight (the ten Professional is three grams heavier), have the identical Tensor G5 chip, and each are glass with metallic sides and have an enormous, pill-shaped digicam bump on the again.

The shows are barely completely different, with the ten Professional being barely higher — 1280×2856 pixels as a substitute of 1080×2424, 1-120Hz refresh price as a substitute of 60-120Hz, and as much as 3,300 nits peak brightness as a substitute of three,000 nits. Having used each telephones extensively, these variations aren’t noticeable the overwhelming majority of the time.

Different variations embody that the Pixel 10 has a barely bigger battery than the ten Professional (4,970mAh to 4,870mAh), much less RAM (12GB vs 16GB), and fewer storage choices, maxing out at 256GB, whereas the ten Professional can do 512GB or 1TB. Once more, none of those make that a lot of a distinction, with the RAM doubtlessly impacting AI efficiency for those who care about that (I don’t).

That leaves the digicam {hardware} as the one different a part of the system with vital variations. I’ve listed all of the cameras beneath and highlighted the notable variations, with all different stats being the identical (or shut sufficient as to not matter):

• Most important digicam: 48-megapixel on the Pixel 10 vs 50-megapixel on 10 Professional.
• Ultrawide: 13-megapixel f/2.2 vs 48-megapixel f/1.7
• x Telephoto: 10.8-megapixel f/3.1 vs 48-megapixel f/2.8
• Selfie: 10.5-megapixel 95-degree FOV vs 42-megapixel 103-degree FOV

In my expertise, the Pixel 10 Professional digicam positively has an edge over the Pixel 10 due to the higher {hardware}. Nevertheless, that distinction is most notable in particular eventualities, like lowlight images and zoom photographs — more often than not, the Pixel 10 can produce nice outcomes which can be very similar to the ten Professional. (And as proof, I’ll point to my Pixel 10 review the place I included some head-to-head comparability photographs).

Having used the Pixel 10 Professional for 100 days now, I can say with certainty that the one purpose to fork out the additional cash for it over the Pixel 10 is for the area of interest digicam efficiency. In different phrases, until you usually use your telephone for images at a excessive degree (equivalent to professionally), the Pixel 10 will cowl your bases.

Once more, the Pixel 10 Professional isn’t a nasty telephone. Actually, there’s lots I like about it. I’m a giant fan of this 12 months’s ‘Jade’ colourway and the soft-touch again panel is nice, though not meaningfully completely different from the 9 Professional. The battery life has been strong for me, simply making it by most days and generally even stretching nicely right into a second. There isn’t sufficient distinction between the Professional and the common 10 to justify the additional price.

Sometimes, the Pixel 10 Professional retails for $1,349 and the Pixel 10 clocks in at $1,099. However on the time of writing, both devices were on sale for $1,099 and $849, respectively. So proper now, you might get the Pixel 10 Professional for the worth of the Pixel 10, which is fairly strong. Nonetheless, I believe most individuals can be higher off saving the cash and grabbing the Pixel 10 on sale.