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With its capable cameras, helpful software features, attractive, premium build and long-lasting battery, the Pixel 10 Pro is an excellent, well-rounded smartphone. Of course, for anyone that’s an iPhone diehard, this title probably means nothing, but the tenth-generation Google smartphone should make any Android user question their allegiances. The Pixel 10 Pro offers support for Qi2 wireless charging, including MagSafe compatibility, and Google’s line of Pixelsnap accessories are thoughtfully designed in a way that even rivals some of Apple’s own magnetic attachments. Oh and Samsung? Forget about it — a Galaxy flagship that supports magnetically attached accessories doesn’t yet exist. 

While Gemini might feel a little too in your face on Google’s other software products and services, on the Pixel phones the AI proves genuinely helpful. There are photography-centric features like Add Me or Camera Coach, for example, while the Magic Cue feature that surfaces shortcuts and actions in your messages or calls based on what you’re saying can reduce a ton of friction. It’s as if Google actually thought about how people use their phones rather than how to include tired generative AI tools like summarizing, proofreading or rewriting into the device. The Pixel 10 Pro’s suite of software showcase just how AI should be implemented in our lives, and in 2025, this helped set it apart from the sea of other phones on the market. — Cherlynn Low, Managing Editor