Putting aside the excellent Pixel 5, battery life was never one of the Pixel line-up’s strong suits. The Pixel, Pixel 2, and Pixel 3 had average battery life; the Pixel 4 and 6 series were pretty bad, while the Pixel 7 and 8 were very average. Last year’s Pixel 9 phones put the series on a better trajectory, despite the still questionable modem and Tensor G4 processor. With the Pixel 10 series, however, Google promised its best battery life yet — 30+ hours on a charge! — thanks to an optimized Tensor G5 and larger batteries on all models.

This claim is one of the reasons I chose to upgrade from my Pixel 9 Pro XL. My experience had been pretty average for a whole year, starting pretty decently, but then getting to a point where the battery would die by mid-afternoon on busy travel days, wh

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