In this battle of affordable flagship phones, we pit the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE against the Google Pixel 6.
When Samsung launched the Galaxy S20 FE in 2020 for $699, we thought it was among the best Android smartphones you could buy in its segment. Fast-forward to 2022, and the outlook seems radically different for its much-delayed successor, the Galaxy S21 FE. Unlike the case 16 months ago when there were no compelling “affordable flagships” to put up a fight against the S20 FE, customers looking to spend $500 to $800 on a smartphone today have a myriad of options to choose from.
The Samsung Galaxy S21 makes no attempts at hiding its connection to the Galaxy S21 family. Again, this is evident from the rear camera module, which bears the now-famous Galaxy S21 series look. But that aside, there is nothing exciting going on here. Samsung does offer you four very good color options, but that’s just about exciting a polycarbonate rear panel could get.
Besides, the S21 FE also gets the supposedly superior AMOLED 2X panel compared to the Pixel 6’s standard OLED panel. Another screen-related similarity between the two is the presence of an under-display fingerprint scanner on both phones. However, initial reviews indicate that the S21 FE’s fingerprint unlock mechanism works flawlessly — quite unlike the one on the Pixel 6’s scanner that has been riddled with bugs since the phone’s release.
Google’s Tensor chip also gets a powerful A.I. and a machine learning-focused Tensor Processing Unit that should work well with Google’s existing and upcoming A.I.-centric initiatives ranging from computational photography and automatic speech recognition to an improved Google Assistant experience. Where the Samsung does excel, however, is the much-improved portrait mode and the fact that selfies from the 32MP front camera are as good as it gets. Then there are Samsung-specific features like Single Take and dual recording mode, which you will miss on the Pixel 6.
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