I enjoyed reviewing the Google Pixel 9, but the little flagship hasn’t quite made it into my daily life. The Pixel 9 is a great little phone, but its $799 price tag is not the value proposition we’ve become accustomed to from Google. Worse for the 9, the far superior Pixel 9 Pro is absolutely worth that $200 extra.
Despite its undeniable strengths, the Pixel 9 is a tricky sell, but clearly, building affordable flagship phones is still possible — check out the new Samsung Galaxy S24 FE. It’s just the sort of phone that I really wanted the Pixel 9 to be and it’s only $650. That’s $150 less than Google’s flagship and a lot cheaper than Apple’s iPhone 16. Samsung may have just out-Pixel’d the Pixel.