These phones aren't even on the same planet, for me personally.
The Pixel has an excellent camera but:
- Mostly Plastic
- Has Huge Bezels
- An inferior OLED from LG. Color shift. Burn in.
- Less premium build quality
- Generally Ugly
- No wireless charging.
- Removed headphone jack after making fun of Apple...loses all credibility
More just your general opinion than fact...
"Mostly plastic".... uuhm... how? It's an aluminum body phone. It just has a plastic coating on it so that it's both not ice cold to the touch, nor is it incredibly slippery if you use it without a case.
"Has huge bezels".... Has front facing stereo speakers. I'd gladly have slightly larger bezels for that.
"Inferior OLED" Yes... it's no Samsung OLED with it's over-the-top vivid colors (though they did recently add a "Saturated" colors option to bump them up more to that kind of level... which i'd rather have more natural colors any day of the week), I wouldn't say it's INFERIOR. Burn in doesn't seem to affect EVERY display, and color shift is only incredibly noticeable if you're looking at a white screen. Also have to be looking at the phone from a bit more than a less-than-direct angle to see it... which who uses their phone in that way anyway?
"Less premium build quality" ... because it's not glass? You're totally right. That "Most breakable iPhone" crown makes having two insanely expensive to replace panes of glass SOOO worth it.
"Generally ugly" that's just your opinion. I think it actually looks quite nice.
"No wireless charging" Yep... because Google decided to go with a MILES more durable aluminum back and not feature wireless charging.... something that's been around for what.... 4 years now, and suddenly because Apple did it, everyone else who doesn't isn't good enough? I'd rather plug my phone in for a couple minutes and get a days worth of charge than be able to say "Look at this, i don't even have to plug my phone in!"
as for the headphone jack.... eeh... having it or not doesn't really bother me much at all, since i almost never use any sort of headphones with my phone. If i'm out and about, i'm generally not on my phone unless i'm sitting down to eat somewhere, or in my car getting ready to leave somewhere or after arriving where i was going. I'm not the type to be on my phone around people, much less with anything crammed into or sitting over my ears (which is generally incredibly rude, especially in a retail environment). It's even worse when people are listening to something on their phone with earbuds or headphones on WHILE DRIVING. Which, i'm pretty sure that's actually illegal. But long story short... doesn't bother me one way or the other if there is or isn't a headphone jack. Think the main reason Google razzed on Apple about it last year with the iPhone 7 was because it was basically out of nowhere. People with all these nice, high quality headphones had to resort to using another dongle to use them. What's worse is if maybe some of those people also used a headphone amp as well... which would then be 3 different connection points between the phone and the headphones (or 4 if you consider headphones with removable audio cables). Last year's Pixel didn't remove the headphone jack, more than likely because other options that didn't result in NEEDING to use a dongle didn't really exist... which is kinda what happened last year with the iPhone 7. It came with earbuds with a lightning connector... but there weren't really any other 3rd party options at the time.