Sure, this is very light usage - just 5 hours SoT over more than 2 days of usage - but I couldn’t get this phone to even make it to two days with similar usage on Android 13. And it’s comparable to my previous budget phone, so the only thing the 7a was worse at is now fixed for me.
I still have a pixel 3A. I work in a factory and hardly ever check my phone while at work. In the evenings, I still use it pretty lightly.
Most of the time I’ll work a shift, go home and forget to charge it overnight, wake up and go to work again. It usually dies around the end of my shift on that second day.
Whatever sleep technology is in pixels is very good.
My girlfriend has a Samsung A52 and it is the same thing. She has had it for a few years and she still only charges it ever few days. Even when browsing Instagram reels and videos she gets like 10 hours SOT.
Meanwhile my sony 5ii with 75% battery life while only ever charging to 80% that gets 6hrs SOT if I’m lucky and discharges with the screen off on WiFi at 2% per hour…