The Google Pixel 10 is the sweet spot of this year’s Pixel lineup, offering the best overall value with premium build quality, terrific cameras, and a robust set of AI-powered functionality throughout the system.
This is my first experience with a non-Pro Pixel in the Tensor era, and I love how the iconic family-wide design carries over to this smaller device. It’s no less premium than the Pixel 10 Pro XL, but there are some subtle differences. The sides of the Pixel 10 are matte (what Google calls a satin finish), and I prefer it to the glossy finish on the Pro models. And the glass back of the phone, conversely, is glossy not matte. For reasons.
The Pixel 10 is the same size as the Pixel 10 Pro, 6 x 2.8 x 0.3 inches, but it’s a tad lighter at 7.2 ounces. This means that cases are compatible between the two. That’s handy for me, as I will move the case I got for the Pixel 10 to the Pixel 10 Pro so I can review that phone next. But what you can’t do is use a Pixel 9 case on a Pixel 10 or vice versa: The camera bars are different sizes between the generations, in both width and height, so the cases are not cross-compatible.
Beyond that and the different color choices-the Pixel 10 can be purchased in Indigo, Frost, Lemongrass, and Obsidian — the phone pretty much matches the design of the Pro models point-by-point. The USB ports, speakers, and microphones are all in the same places, and the side buttons and antenna gaps on the edges are all roughly identical. It’s immediately familiar, but it also doesn’t look or feel like a cut-rate model.
As with the Pros, the selfie camera peeks through the display at the top middle in a punch-hole circle. It’s quite large, and it seems magnified by the smaller overall phone form factor. I don’t find it off-putting. But it is noticeable.
Overall, this is a handsome little device. I almost always buy larger smartphones, thanks to my eyesight and large hands. But in using the Pixel 10 over several weeks, I’ve gotten somewhat used to the size.
I understand why some might prefer smaller smartphones. But cite pocketability as a reason, and I feel that’s misguided. You should optimize this kind of purchase for use and not for those interstitial moments. And if you’re a woman, you always carry a purse of some kind anyway, as my wife pointed out to me when I asked about this issue.
But there is a usability benefit to a smaller phone, too, and it’s a good one: The smaller Pixel 10 is much easier to use single-handedly than a large phone like the Pixel 10 Pro XL. That’s true even for me, despite the large hands.
Put simply, if you prefer small phones, this is a delightful choice.
The Pixel 10 has a 6.3-inch Actua-branded OLED display with a 1080 x 2424 resolution (422 PPI), a 9:20 aspect ratio, a 60 to 120 Hz variable refresh rate, and a 2 million to 1 (2,000,000:1) contrast ratio. This display supports HDR and 24-bit color, it emits 2000 nits of brightness for HDR content and 3000 nits of peak brightness, and it’s covered with Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 cover glass protection.
Unlike with the Pro models, that resolution is all you get, there’s no toggle between Max (native) and High resolution choices, and so the phone doesn’t (and can’t) default to a lower resolution to save on battery life.
Likewise, the Pro models support a more sophisticated variable refresh rate (VRR) mode in which the panel switches on the fly between an incredibly low 1 Hz (for non-moving content) and 120 Hz. (That, too, should help with battery life.) The Pixel 10 does support VRR, but it’s limited to a refresh range of 60 to 120 Hz. VRR can impact the battery a bit, as Google warns in the Settings, but I left this enabled as I do with other phones.
The Pixel 10 supports adaptive tone, an excellent capability that adjusts the display tone to be warmer or cooler to match the surrounding area. It also supports other core display features from the Pro models, like adaptive brightness, always-on display, dark theme (with automatic/scheduled on/off), the cool new Pixel screensaver for a smart display-like experience while on power, adaptive color, and so on.
As with the recent Pro models, adaptive brightness works well and I never needed to manually adjust the screen brightness. And while the overall screen brightness capabilities are roughly 10 percent dimmer than with the Pixel 10 Pro XL, I never had issues using it outside, even on the brightest, sunniest days (at least once I removed my sunglasses, which are a problem for any display).
In what you’ll find to be a theme throughout this device, the display is one of many Pixel 10 features that is technically not as sophisticated as what the Pro versions provide, but is still terrific nonetheless: In this case, I never noticed any quality differences in day-to-day use. It’s a nearly perfect display, assuming you prefer yours on the smaller side. But I did bump up the system font and display sizes to compensate for my middle-aged eyes.
And that can be problematic.
As I wrote in Paul’s Pixel 10 Diaries: Ecosystem Matters (Premium), Google does a great job with this capability in the system and its own apps. But third-party support is sporadic, and I use apps every day that cut off on-screen elements because they’re so poorly written. Meta’s apps, Facebook and Instagram, especially, are among the worst offenders, as you can see here, where I’m trying to type a happy birthday message to a friend on Facebook.
That’s not ideal. But here’s an example that better demonstrates how poorly-written apps can cause real problems: This Wi-Fi sign-in screen has a button I couldn’t see or click because it was hidden due to the display scaling issues. Great.
The screen bezels are noticeably large, and as with the selfie camera hole punch opening, it seems like this fact is exaggerated a bit by the small overall size of the device. It doesn’t get in the way and isn’t an issue. But it’s pretty obvious.
As with the Pro and Fold models, the Pixel 10 comes with the latest Google Tensor G5 processor, not a binned-down version like Apple uses with its non-Pro iPhone models. But there is less RAM, 12 GB vs. the 16 GB we see on the Pros, and slower UFS 3.1 storage, at least on the base model. There’s also less of it and fewer choices: You can configure the Pixel 10 with 128 GB or 256 GB of storage. The latter comes with faster UFS 4 storage.
The review unit that Google lent me has just 128 GB of storage. And while one’s need for storage is of course personal, 128 GB is not enough here in 2025. And so I strongly recommend upgrading to at least 256 GB on this or any other phone going forward. This isn’t just about faster read and write speeds, either: Android 16 eats up 11 GB of that storage, and AICore — the on-device models that power so many Pixel-specific features — will use several gigabytes more, 6.75 GB in my case. I usually download a lot of songs and other content to my phones, but I skipped the songs and only downloaded two Audible books, and by the time all the apps I needed were installed and properly configured, I had used up almost half the storage. No bueno.
Continually harping on the lackluster performance of the Tensor processors in benchmarks is obvious and self-defeating, but all I can do is repeat the same observations as ever. In day-to-day use, the Pixel 10 works fine, with no noticeable pauses, glitches, or other troubling issues. Heat hasn’t been an issue, though I haven’t been able test it on a hot car dashboard. And games like Call of Duty: Mobile seem to play and look just about as good on Pixel 10 as is the case on the Pro models. Again, with no heat issues. (But my eyes are not happy with this game on such a small display)
What you will see — and this is true across the entire Pixel 10 family — is a bit of processing time on almost any AI-based computational photography task. This is the strangest thing about the Tensor, I think. Google spent years and untold billions creating and then improving Tensor specifically for AI capabilities, but it doesn’t perform better at similar tasks than Qualcomm’s flagship processors.
Consider some simple photo-taking examples. When I take a close-up shot of an item with the Pixel 10, triggering its macro mode, and then switch over to the gallery, it needs about two seconds to process the image before I can view or edit it. When I take the same shot with my Samsung Galaxy S25+, I can view or edit the photo instantly, with no waiting. Likewise, a 5x zoom shot requires two seconds of processing on the Pixel, whereas a 3x zoom shot on the S25+ (the highest optical zoom level it supports) is instant.
Is this a deal-breaker? No, it’s more of a curiosity than a day-to-day issue. But this and similar AI-based slowness on the Pixel 10 series begs the question of why Google doesn’t just stick with the latest Snapdragon processors. They’re not just faster processors, they’re faster at processing AI.
From a cellular perspective, the base Pixel 10 provides the same basic capabilities and compatibility as the more expensive Pro models. That includes 5G mmWave and Sub-6 Hz, which is admittedly rare in the real world. And it is fully Google Fi compatible, so it can switch between networks on the fly and automatically take advantage of high quality and known-safe W+ Wi-Fi networks as you might find at airports and other public spaces. Nice!
The Pixel 10 provides Wi-Fi 6E, a small step down from the Wi-Fi 7 offered on the Pro models, but the Bluetooth 5.4 radio is the same, at least, and both will serve customers well for many years. The Pixel 10 doesn’t include Ultra-Wideband (UWB) or Thread support, as do the Pro models (in the latter case, for the first time ever). But this won’t be problematic for most.
UWB is used to help Google’s Find Hub provide a more precise location if you lose your phone, and it streamlines Quick Share device discovery. One thing I did test was UWB-based media transfer to a Pixel Tablet: This works seamlessly with the Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL, and all you have to do is place the two devices next to each other. But this doesn’t work with the base Pixel 10, so you have to use on-screen cast controls. Not a big deal.
Thread is a smart home standard for reliable device-to-device connectivity over a low-power mesh network. The base Pixel 10 doesn’t support this, so you can just communicate with your smart devices over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi as always. This doesn’t impact me, as I don’t believe I even have any Thread-compatible devices in Mexico or Pennsylvania. But it may be a useful feature for those with more impressive smart home setups.
Finally, it’s worth pointing out that the Pixel 10’s 10 Gbps USB 3.2 Type-C connector is identical to that on the Pro models. Obviously, the internal storage may slow file transfers a bit on the 128 GB model compared to the 256 GB model and the Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL, but it’s nice to not be stuck with a pokey 480 Mbps USB 2.0 port like we see on the base iPhone 17. (That said, the USB cable that Google ships in the box is USB 2.0. Wa-waa-waaah.)
Like the Pro models, the Pixel 10 has stereo speakers, one next to the USB-C port on the bottom, and one built into the earpiece at the top of the display. The sound quality is fine, and though it gets quite distorted at high volumes, it’s quite loud at about 70 percent volume, where it remains distortion free. I used the speakers for music, podcasts, audiobooks, or YouTube videos just about every day, often while shaving and getting cleaned up in the morning, and the Pixel 10 works well for that type of thing.
In my Pixel 10 Pro XL review, I noted that Google improved the right-sided bias of audio when watching a movie or playing a game in landscape mode (where the “right” speaker is on the bottom of the phone). I didn’t use a base Pixel 9 previously, and in testing audio playback side-by-side with the bigger Pixel, it appears that the Pixel 10 didn’t get this same attention. It’s not horrible, but the Pixel 10 Pro XL sound is richer and more balanced left-to-right.
Videogames and movies look terrific on the Pixel 10, thanks to the high-quality display, so this is a neat little video player if you’re OK with the smallness. I thought the Netflix movies I tested looked notably good. And if you have a pair of earbuds that support Dolby Atmos or spatial audio, like the Google Pixel Buds Pro 2s, you can have a more complete experience.
Google includes three microphones with noise suppression capabilities in the Pixel 10, the same as on the Pro models. Pixel has been notably good in this area since the beginning, especially compared to the iPhone, and the Pixel 10 seems to continue this tradition. That said, I had a difficult time hearing my daughter on a recent call and found myself fidgeting to get the earpiece speaker optimally lined up with my ear. Here, too, earbuds would be the better option.
Thanks to nothing more than random timing, we flew to Mexico City and then Hawaii while I was actively using the Pixel 10 each day. That type of trip is a gut-check moment for people like me who want to ensure that they’re getting the best possible photos, especially when it’s a gorgeous and exotic place one may never see again. And so I could have made a case for sticking with the Pixel 10 Pro XL and its superior camera system during that trip.
But I didn’t bother. The Pixel 10 takes astonishingly good photos in all conditions, and I knew that it would do a terrific job of creating memories in Hawaii. And that is exactly what happened. You can see my Hawaii photos, day and night, throughout this part of the review and judge for yourself.
Google describes the triple lens camera system on the base Pixel 10 as advanced, as opposed to “pro,” as on the Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL. That makes sense from a hardware perspective, as the base Pixel 10 only offers a single high resolution camera lens, along with four lower-resolution lenses. But it also makes sense if you come at it from the software, as the Pixel Camera app doesn’t offer Pro controls as it does on the more expensive Pixels.
It doesn’t matter. Like its more expensive siblings, the Pixel 10 delivers consistently good results and it will meet the needs of almost any user. And that includes me, oddly. Though I almost always buy flagship phones, usually because of their improved camera systems, the Pixel 10 has been terrific, with the same predictable, high-quality results I get from the Pros.
There are three camera lens on the rear of the Pixel 10, a first for the non-Pro Pixels.
The main (wide) lens is the one high-resolution camera sensor in the Pixel 10. It’s a 25 mm equivalent with 48 MP of resolution, an f/1.7 aperture, an 82 degree field of view (FOV), dual-pixel phase detection autofocus (PDAF), and optical image stabilization (OIS).
The ultrawide lens is a 112 mm equivalent that delivers 13 MP of resolution, an f/2.2 aperture, and a 120-degree FOV that’s just a bit less wide than that on the Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL.
The telephoto lens is new to the Pixel 10. This is a 112 mm equivalent that provides 10.8 MP of resolution, an f/3.1 aperture, a 23-degree FOV, dual pixel PDAF, OIS, multi-zone LDAF (which improves auto-focus), 5x optical zoom, and up to 20x Super Res Zoom (which uses machine learning to improve image quality).
Last year’s Pixel 9 had only two rear camera lenses, and while the main lens was nearly identical to that we see now on the Pixel 10, the ultra-wide was a much higher resolution 48 MP sensor. So Google basically swapped that out for the smaller and (I assume) less costly ultra-wide lens we see now in the Pixel 10 to make room and lower the bill of materials (BOM). This has triggered some grumbling with the fan base.
Folks, this was the right trade-off. A dedicated telephoto lens, with 5x optical zoom, no less, is a big deal. But losing resolution on the ultra-wide is mostly a non-issue: Yes, pixel-binning down from the higher resolution on Pixel 9 can result in higher quality images. But that isn’t true all the time, and it’s not like base Pixel 9 users could configure the camera to take full-resolution shots anyway. You are getting 12 MP ultra-wide shots on a Pixel 9, compared to 13 MP on the Pixel 10. This is good enough and most people won’t notice any differences between the two.
I know. This may seem like a theory since I don’t have a Pixel 9. But the Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL both have the same ultra-wide lens that was in the Pixel 9, and I can — and did — compare those side-by-side with the Pixel 10 across a variety of shots, including macro images. The Pixel 10 ultra-wide works great, and the results often match what I see on the Pixel 10 Pro XL, with small differences.
The front-facing selfie camera is a single ultra-wide lens. It’s a 20 mm equivalent with 10.5 MP of resolution, an f/2.2 aperture, a 95-degree FOV, and PDAF autofocus. As with the Pixel 10 Pros, it supports 0.7x and 1x zoom presets, but you can also manually zoom up to 2.9x. I don’t take a lot of selfies, and you can argue that this is an obvious downgrade from the 42 MP selfie camera on the Pros with a noticeably less wide FOV. (It appears to be the same lens that Google used previously on the Pixel 9.) But the shots look fine to me, and the selfie camera supports features like Night Sight and Top Shot.
The Pixel Camera app is simplified when run on the base Pixel 10. The focus (ahem) here is on point and shoot photography, which is what most do most of the time. So the basics are all there, with on-screen zoom presets (in this case, .5x, 1x, 2x, and 5x), the mode slider (Photo, Night Sight, Panorama, and so on when taking photos), the Photo/Video toggle, and, when enabled, white balance, brightness, and exposure controls in the viewfinder.
Losing the Pro controls means you can’t take full resolution images with the main lens, but you also lose the ability to save in RAW format, manually select individual lenses, and access advanced options like Focus, Shutter speed, and ISO. These are features most users don’t need or want, but if you’re in that camp, you already know that you want a Pixel 10 Pro or 10 Pro XL.
I don’t miss those features for the most part, though being able to select a specific lens can be useful: The Pixel 10, like most smartphones, does a little lens change shimmy sometimes, as it moves back and forth between two lenses on the fly while you’re trying to frame a shot, which can be annoying.
You can read more about my Pixel 10 camera experiences in Paul’s Pixel 10 Diaries: Camera Deep Dive⭐. But the Pixel 10 camera excels in the same ways the Pro model cameras excel. You tap the Camera icon on-screen, raise the phone to see through the viewfinder, frame the shot, and take the picture. Almost 100 percent of the time, the results are exactly what I want, and the Pixel 10 never forces me to babysit the resulting shots, as I have to do on the iPhone. It just works.
The Pixel 10 supports most of the unique camera features that I experienced on the Pixel 10 Pro XL and discussed in that review. So you get Camera Coach, which is a surprisingly strong feature for helping you learn how to take better photos (I wrote about this separately in Paul’s Pixel 10 Diaries: Camera Coach), Auto Best Take, an enhancement to Top Shot that helps with group shots, Add Me (which isn’t new but was updated with pet support and some quality improvements), and Help me edit (in Google Photos). What you don’t get is 50 MP portrait shots (of course) and Pro Res Zoom.
I didn’t mention this in my Pixel 10 Pro XL review, but the Pixel 10 series phones all support social media depth techniques, which isn’t a new feature, and low light boost functionality in Instagram, which is. With the Pixel 10 (and Pros), you can use the camera in the Instagram app to create a story (video), and a moon icon appears in the viewfinder that you can tap to brighten the scene. I don’t ever do this, but this is obviously a popular app and feature, so it will be useful for many.
I’ve been trying to test video recording performance and quality across the Pixel 10 series devices as much as possible. But I don’t take very many videos, so this is slow going. I will write this up as part of my Paul’s Pixel 10 Diaries series, but for now, I can say that the technical differences between the base Pixel 10 and Pro models are all commensurate with the hardware differences. For example, where the Pros support 8K video recording at 24/30 FPS, the Pixel 10 supports 4K at 24/30/60 FPS, and you lose out on Pro Res Zoom, Video Boost, and Night Sight Video. More on this soon.
The Pixel 10 comes with the same Face Unlock capabilities and ultrasonic fingerprint reader as the Pro models and they are just as quick and reliable here as they are on the Pixel 10 Pro XL. Face Unlock also has the same limitations, of course: It doesn’t work in the dark or when you wear sunglasses.
The underlying silicon is the same, too, so Google provides a Titan M2 security processor with its Trusty (Trusted Execution Environment) and anti-malware and anti-phishing protections.
Pixel customers all get Google VPN for free. And I’ve been using Advanced Protection on the Pixel 10 for the past several days, a security feature I hadn’t yet experimented with. It enhances the security of the system across the board with theft protection and other changes, and I was curious to see whether it would cause any functional issues. But it’s worked normally so far.
The Tensor G5 definitely runs cooler than its predecessors, but I can’t say whether this improvement has helped with battery life. Pixel battery life has been middling during the Tensor era, and that appears to be consistent.
These things are difficult to measure, but I find myself charging the Pixel 10 at least once during the day in addition to the normal overnight charge, and I always bring an external battery for long days of sightseeing or other photo opportunities. One morning in Hawaii, for example, I took 203 photos on a full charge one morning, and I was down to 73 percent.
The base Pixel 10 comes with a 4970 mAh battery, the same as that found in the Pixel 10 Pro. At this time, it’s not clear to me if the two Pixels deliver the same battery life — I am moving on to the Pixel 10 Pro when I finish this review — but my guess is that the Pixel 10 will technically supply a bit less uptime and that this will be so subtle as to be unnoticeable in day-to-day use.
The differences in charging speeds are perhaps more noticeable, in that they are slower on the base Pixel 10 than they are on the Pro models. But I think they’re also an acceptable trade-off: You can charge at up to 30 watts with a USB-C cable and a compatible charger and at up to 15 watts on a Pixelsnap or Qi 2 wireless charger. A Qi 2.2 charger will work, too, but it won’t deliver the faster speeds supported by the Pros.
As with the other Pixel 10 series devices, the addition of Pixelsnap/Qi 2-based wireless charging means that the Pixel 10 doesn’t support reverse wireless charging.
As noted above, the Pixel 10 is Pixelsnap compatible, so it has Qi 2-capable magnets and wireless charging, opening it up to the incredible world of MagSafe and Qi 2 peripherals. I wrote about this in Paul’s Pixel 10 Diaries: The Magic of Pixelsnap ⭐, but the short version is that this feature is a game-changer, and it elevates it into a new hardware ecosystem stratosphere that even Samsung doesn’t (yet) provide.
I purchased an expandable MagSafe-compatible selfie stick/tripod from Amazon in Mexico after we got back from Hawaii, and this is an excellent use case for this technology. I used it to record an episode of First Ring Daily (though that was with the Pixel 10 Pro).
Like the other Pixel 10 series phones, the Pixel 10 shipped with Android 16 and the Quarter Platform Release 1 (QPR1) update. But I often have to hammer on a major misconception when it comes to the Android version that Pixel users get: This is not “stock” Android, it is instead a highly customized user experience unlike anything else in the Android ecosystem.
The functionality one gets with Pixel Android, as I think of it, is astonishing. But it’s not perfect, and this is something I should have mentioned in my Pixel 10 Pro XL review, as this is common to all Pixels. For example, while Google allows customers to customize the interface in many ways throughout the system, it also pushes its preferences on customers here and there in ways I don’t like. This is most obvious on the home screen you use every single day, where the At a Glance widget and search bar are hard-coded into the system and can’t be removed. Even Apple provides a more customizable home screen on its iPhone. I mean, think about it.
Almost all the unique functionality I noted in my Pixel 10 Pro XL review is available on the base Pixel 10, too. You get calling card customizations, the new Screen Saver feature, Material Expressive 3 throughout, Gemini and Gemini Live integration, Magic Cue (still a work in progress), Voice Translate, the Pixel Journal app, the Create music functionality in the Recorder app, Writing Tools in Gboard, Pixel Studio with Imagen 4 support, and so. And that’s just the new stuff: Google has been building helpful features into Pixel Android since the first Pixel, and this incredible suite of functionality is a key reason to choose a Pixel.
There is one potentially important perk that you don’t get with the base Pixel 10 however. Unlike with the Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL, it doesn’t come with a free year of Google AI Pro, a $240 value that dramatically raises Gemini usage limits and comes with 2 TB of Google Drive storage. Yes, you will need to pay for this after that first year, but this and a few other factors may point you do a Pixel 10 Pro instead.
The Pixel 10 is available in four colors, two of which are dramatically brighter and more colorful than what Google offers in the Pro models. Indigo is a stunning deep acrylic blue color that’s my favorite, but you can also get the Pixel 10 in Lemongrass (a neon light green with gold edges), Frost (a light gray), and Obsidian (an almost-black dark gray). It’s also available with two storage choices, 128 GB and 256 GB.
With a starting price of $799, the Pixel 10 is a tremendous value. But I recommend getting at least 256 GB of storage regardless of which phone you choose, and that will raise the price to $899. And that, paradoxically, is more expensive than the base iPhone 17, which includes 256 GB of storage for $799. That’s a competitive disadvantage for Google, but it’s obviously an issue for potential switchers too.
If you’re shopping against Samsung, no Galaxy S25 model lines up exactly, as the S25 has a smaller 6.2 inch display and the S25+ has a larger 6.7-inch display. Both have comparable camera systems but faster processors. The S25 starts at $849 for a 128 GB configuration, whereas the S25+ is $999. But they are often on sale, and Samsung usually provides good trade-in values.
If you definitely want a Pixel, the base Pixel 10 Pro is $200 more expensive, or $999. It provides one year of Google AI Pro, a $240 value, a better display, a superior camera system, faster wired and wireless charging, more and faster RAM, faster storage at the 128 GB tier, and some other advantages. At 256 GB, the $200 differential remains, with the Pixel 10 Pro costing $1099. I’m moving over to the Pixel 10 Pro now that this review is complete, so I will have more to say about these differences soon.
For now, I strongly recommend waiting on a sale: Black Friday is coming, but Google often drops its prices on a rolling schedule and the availability of the iPhone 17 series may trigger a sale in the coming days.
I’m surprised by how much I like the Pixel 10: I’ve been buying Pro models of Galaxy phones, iPhones, and Pixels for years, often for the improved camera capabilities, and always in the biggest size available. And yet the Pixel 10 never disappointed. The camera quality is silly-good given the hardware, the screen is gorgeous, the day-to-day performance is on-point, and Google’s pervasive AI functionality is a key differentiator. The pricing at 256 GB compared to the iPhone is a bit disappointing, yes. But Google’s frequent sales can solve that problem, and a trade-in will help. And I feel like the Pixel 10 has so many advantages over the iPhone 17 that it almost doesn’t matter.
The Pixel 10 is highly recommended. This is an excellent smartphone that never stopped delighting me.
Pros
✔️ Three lens rear camera system with impressive photo quality
✔️ Low price, solid value
✔️ Truly helpful AI functionality throughout the system
❌ 128 GB of storage is not enough in 2025, iPhone 17 is cheaper at 256 GB
❌ Doesn’t include one free year of Google AI Pro, a $240 value
