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by rstuart4133 460 days ago
Pretty much the same story for me. I have a Motorola, wife insisted on a Pixel costing 3 times as much. I don't see anything like 3 times the value.

There are trade offs going both directions:

- The most irritating is the Magnetometer and GPS are both better in the Pixel.

- The Motorola comes with headphone jacks, dual SIM and SDCard, better battery life.

- Fingerprint reader on the Motorola is better.

- Both use the Googles phone app, but Google turns off the call recording on Pixels but it works on the Motorola. Go figure. I use that feature when getting avoid from people like the tax office, so that's a hard no go for me.

- Cheap Motorola's don't have wireless charging, but USB cables are everywhere, wireless chargers not so much.

- I suspect the Pixel's camera is better - but I've never noticed.

Add that all up and for me the Motorola is the better phone; at 1/3 the cost of a Pixel. The "unbeatable value" claim in the headline did cause an eyebrow twitch.