You're comparing a tower to a very small and skinny pocket computer that's expected to replace your typical computer.

Not a fair comparison

In my case not. I am strictly a mid-price and feature range smart phone buyer. So I typically don't pay even half of what the flagship sku's cost.

That is what credit cards are for. Buy phone, get points for free shit, pay off in a couple payments so little to no interest.

Samsung just acquired Viv, the new voice assistant that made headlines months ago because it's developed by the creators of Siri. It's fantastic, check it out.

Siri was better when it launched than it is now in my opinion, Apple just didn't give the team the freedom they wanted back then because Apple is so anal about "privacy" of its users, so they left and started again from scratch Viv. The fun fact now is that Apple acknowledges that it messed up and heavily stunted Siri growth and they are trying to fix it, one can't help but wonder what Siri would be like as of now if the original team remained with Apple and continued developing Siri without restrictions.

I guess this is it then for Samsung, they clearly will not be using Google's assistant, this also means that Microsoft's dreams of making Cortona the default voice assistant on Android devices can be put to rest.

Thanks for posting this and enlightening people  It gets tiring to refute claims about Apple being cheap with the iPhone components.

You should check my previous post since you seem to like Samsung products, even if you are not a fan of voice assistants, you should know that Samsung has acquired more than Viv, the talent and the minds behind Viv will surely put to use in other areas as well.

Mmhh it seems all android phone are essentially the same. I would not buy a google phone because of its company's aggressive data collecting scheme.

I think it looks like a great phone. I'm an iPhone user and I like the seamless experience of integrated hardware and software. If Google can offer this then this is a viable alternative for me. 

I don't want to get into the spec war. In the end a 16mp camera is not automatically better than a 12mp (which is why iPhones often win in this department on sites that focus on comparing the quality of cameras but get mocked by reviewers) and the same goes for stuff like PPI (what about color accuracy and calibration of the display?) or water resistance ratings (iPhone is IP67, Galaxy S7 is IP68 but in real life tests the iPhone beats the Galaxy when it comes to water resistance - the Pixel might still be really good at resisting water, just not enough to get an IP67 rating and who drops their phone into a deep pond for an extended period of time?).

Vanilla Android should be great for real world performance regardless of specs on paper. Small OS footprint makes a big difference. A friend of mine has a Galaxy S7 but apps regularly run smoother on my 2 year old iPhone 6 Plus (I noticed this first when he showed me his Pokemon in Pokemon Go). And software updates definitely matter to me. If I ever get fed up with Apple (which is entirely possible) I'd consider a premium smartphone made by Google first.

You cannot compare the galaxy s7 and it's disgusting TouchWiz to a nexus..... The 6p continues to be faster than the s7 and that's a phone from 2015 simply because the 6p runs stock Android, which is imo the best version of Android you could have

This is also why Google moved to put out its own high-end phones. The biggest Android distributor has continuously made steps to define the Android experience. Samsung has continuously put out software that directly replaces core areas of Android including the previous voice support, Pay, etc. They also have their own OS (Tizen) that is continuously developed upon. I expect at some point Samsung will quietly replace their touchwiz'd Android experience with Tizen, or at least they want to, and are possibly still resolving how they do that without killing off support of Play store / apps. Losing that would kill its support (big reasons why blackberry and windows phones failed).

Basically, Google needed to create its own premier experience to ensure their vision of Android was a known product and not being taken over by Samsung's own aspirations.

whelp - I went ahead and ordered a 5" 32GB black version. Should arrive near end of month. much excite! My 2 year old moto x (2nd gen) is going to be put to good use as the test phone for my 2nd oldest. I like to give them their first smartphones as a hand-me-down to prove they are mature enough to keep the phone safe as well as not do stupid things with unlimited internet access/data usage. My oldest just passed that year long test and received a new Moto G4 last week. Those are actually really nice phones for only $200. Seriously, if you want a solid mid-tier phone for cheap, check it out.