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I spent weeks with the Samsung Galaxy S25 and the Google Pixel 9 — my favorite surprised me


Samsung and Google's newest base-model flagships couldn't be more different, despite costing the same amount of cash. Here's how they fare in the real world.

(Image credit: Brady Snyder / Android Central)The Google Pixel 9 is larger than the Samsung Galaxy S25 overall, and I'm not sure that's a good thing. Qualcomm answered with a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy mobile platform that can handle 70 tokens per second for AI tasks, besting Google's flagship. I've been the first to criticize One UI over the years — I've written multiple articles slamming Samsung's tendencies to bog phones down with bloat and duplicate apps.

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