Which phone would you choose!?

Correction. the Pixel 7 gets up to 1,400 nits peak brightness when outside. (Time 2:32)

Most of these comparisons forget to mention that Pixels are available only in a handful of countries in the whole world. Pixels are unavailable even in most European countries. This alone makes A54 the winner for most of us.

I wanted to get an imported Pixel 7 but then I learnt that it one sim and the other is e-sim (a thing we don’t have in South Sudan). I’d choose the A54 because of the dual sim, the expandable memory and ease to find spare parts and accessories

Picked an A54 and i'm very happy. Amazing pictures, SD slot and super easy transferring of all my data and settings from my old Samsung phone.

Great comparison. Nice to have the choice of a discounted Pixel 7, and of course, in the US, the Pixel 7a arrives soon. As you mention, the choice is far wider here in Europe, and even last year's flagships are now edging towards the A54 launch price. IMHO, I would choose the Pixel 7 out of the two, but I would maybe get a discounted Magic 4 Pro or OPPO Find X5 Pro, both of which I have seen for about £100 extra. Thanks!

Choosing a Pixel phone could be a good option if you plan on installing custom ROMs in the future. The Pixel phone is popular among developers and enthusiasts, and there are many custom ROMs available for it.

The Pixel's UI is just so clean and polished compared to Samsung's OneUI. Definitely one of the things I've noticed when swapping from my 7 Pro to S23U. And while the hardware is better, overall l think that the software made much more of a difference in user experience. So something to keep in mind especially when buying these mid-range phones where their performance are similar.

A good video and comparison... I checked out the A54 at Best buy when I was picking something else up and I agree with you. It kind of has a mid to low range. Feel to it with the speed. I think here in the States if you wait for it to go on sale which it will and drops 100 bucks it would be a good phone at $350.

The SD expansion is the deciding factor for me. Photos can be edited, and video upscaled and color-graded.

I live in Canada and got the Pixel 7 while visiting the US in Nov 2022. Been an amazing experience for me.

I got on launch day the a54 and it's a pretty solid phone. I was a huge pixel guy, but since I moved to Colombia you can't get them here officially unless you're willing to import them, which adds up to the price. As for the Chinese phone I avoid them for security concerns (I work in InfoSec)

For that price, the Pixel is the "go to". I'm f****** tired of depth and macro cameras, so useless. The one thing I liked about the a54 is the micro sd slot.

I love my A54, my number 1 feature is the SD card slot!!

I wish I could have the Pixel experience on Samsung hardware, as I prefer their designs.

Pixel Front facing camera is really good but the microphone has too much sound noise in it. Where as the A54 has the better microphone but not the best of video in terms of quality.

I have to keep pointing this out to reviewers cuz they keep getting it wrong. As you have. Please go watch the video disassembly/breakdown of the A54. You state that it uses a lot of plastic. It does not use a lot of plastic. The A54 is made out of a one-piece aluminum internal frame. And gorilla Glass 5 on front and back. The outer bumper. Which is not the frame it's just a bumper; it is made of polycarbonate. It has eight small tabs on it that screw to the internal one-piece aluminum frame. So granted, yes; it has more plastic than the S 23. But it's not entirely plastic as You lead one to believe. And I think it's a much better looking phone than the pixel. I have always thought that all the pixels are quite hideous looking. And I find the A54 to be quite nice looking. And I think the cameras great. it's not quite as good as a pixel but it's much better than the last two phones I had and it takes just fine videos. And as I speak to you I'm coming up on almost 48 hours of use, with about 14 hours of screen on time. And I still have 47% battery. I don't care about speed. I like efficient chips where my phone lasts more than a day. This phone is the first smartphone I've had that has battery life like my old flip phone from the early 2000s. I'm sorry but the pixel doesn't hold a candle to the battery life this phone does. I recommend A54. So far it has been the best phone I've ever owned. Better than any of the Notes I've ever owned. That is all.

Screen size, battery, & price matter the most to me and I got the a54 $100 cheaper. I'll take performance but I'm not shopping for it. Like the "protect battery" feature of Samsung. Works for around town and I just charge 100% for long trips.

Good points for the comparison. *SMALL CORRECTION AT 1:28*: A54 is having Gorilla glass 5 at the back.

As usual enjoyable video and waiting for your ROG Zephyrus G14 review 🤗

This video made me very happy that i got the Pixel 7 at Easter rather than the Galaxy A54. Also the fact i got it for $298 including some free Pixel bud pros :)

The strange thing is that in Italy is that A54 is way cheaper than pixel 7, but both of them are official distributed here, so the situation shuld be similar to Canada or the US.

I'm not super keen on taking exceptionally good pictures but having had an S7Edge and an S20+, I've always used a large microSD for my pictures and music. That leaves my phone's memory completely free to only run apps and only the apps I want. I can't imagine not having a micro-SD or some other on device memory extension. Paying 2dollars a month doesn't sound bad but it adds up really fast. And I'm hopeful the synchronization can be configured to only occur against WIFI as my son's plan (in the very expensive data market in Canada) is rather limited. I was all for looking at getting a Pixel 7 to replace the S9 my son before he heads off to University but this makes it a hard switch for me.

I'm using a Pixel 7 Lemon grass and got the phone with minus $200 CAD discount a few months ago. Really great deal and enjoying it so far. I was using a Galaxy S10 plus which is still working too.

Big love Matthew. Thanks for the video. Kindest regards, Richard U.K

We need a comparison between Pixel 7 and Pixel 7A!

really appreciate the fact that talked about global market phone pricing. specially in south Asia here phone pricing isn't the same as USA or other Europeans countries.

If pixel 7 price drops to 449 in sale that's mean pixel 7a will come at 449

Stupendous work as always Well done Matthew

I wouldn't be interested in either of these phones, but i still watch so I know what's happening with phones in this price range. More importantly, I see you're creeping toward 700k subs Matt. It wasn't so long ago when you were sub-200k, and I'm glad to see your channel growing as well as it has. You deserve it man. Have a great weekend.

Soo many of these phone reviewers whine about lack of wireless charging support. Guys these are budget-to-mid range phones. These phones are for the working class people that don't spend the money on gimmicky crap like that. Besides, wireless charging is slow as hell. I care more about how FAST a phone can charge. Of course, the OnePlus phones completely blow Samsung and Google out of the water with battery life and recharging speed.

The ability to use "Link to Windows" on the Galaxy should count for a lot!

I own pixel 7 and i bought it for 600 cuz im in europe . but gotta tell you it slaps , for 449 its a steal you get there in America

God the video on the A54 looks terrible

Surprisingly, Samsung A54 has longer Android support than the Pixel 7 even the latter is a Google device itself. 😊

"Touching my fat belly". There's a visual I'll never get out of my head. I've always found the physical appearance of the Pixel 7 appealing. Don't know why, it's a subjective thing of course.

I don't understand the comparison. The galaxy a54 costs 360 € and the pixel 7 costs 520 € (470 € refurbished)

thanks for nice comparision, just got the A54 because it is only $49 at MetroPCS ... cannot resist lol

Surely the Pixel 7 compares with the S FE series. The S23 FE will be out soon. The A54 is for the Pixel A crowd. Pixel 7A etc...

I've been thinking about getting the Oneplus 11 but for the a54 being $400 atm and the Pixel 7 being $450 if that happens again, I don't think I want the Oneplus 11 for best bang for buck. Only wanted because it would be fast, alert slider, and fast charging. But I've been happy with my Oneplus7 other than its old poor battery, so I'm looking to upgrade and these two caught my eye. I'm really just looking for great battery like and at least 6.4 inch screen size.

I'm a pixel user but not every phone battle is just about the camera quality. The Samsung has better battery life and a better screen and much cheaper $330

The Chinese phones available here in the EU have 2 years of security updates, often one every six months. So they are woeful in terms of software. Google makes excellent phones with outstanding software, but the lack of expandable storage forced me to have two phones; a Pixel 7 pro for Comms and a Sony (with storage and jack) for multimedia...

I´d go all the way Pixel, the exynos is like a SD778g (the same we had on Galaxy A52S) and belive me with updates the phone gets slow, my A52s is still a great phone but you can feel the difference from when it was new up to now with the latest update, the phone gets laggy, not even talk about the regular A52 that thing with a SD720g feels like a $100 phone nowadays, the a54 will age really bad

The a 54 dropped to 49.99 for new customers and 20 for port customers for metro by T-Mobile

What about the A54 vs a refurbished 7 pro, what is your pick knowing that the 7 pro is refurbished and from 2022.

One UI is a better pick for me. I've used the pixel 4a before and I loved the UI until i discovered the multitasking capabilities of the Samsung. While I want the great cameras of the upcoming 7a, I do not want to give up the side panel and settings within one UI. Also, the battery life is better on Samsung.

Have ans enjoying 7 Pro since November last year and about to order Samsung M34 as a secondary phone today with One UI 5 something and OS updates for 4 years & security for 5 years. Best of both worlds IMO.

every source says that the a54 uses a glass back, so correction on that. Even the retailers at stores say that.

Furious Greek here. It's such a shame that VoWiFi/VoLTE (making calls via WiFi/4g) doesn't work on the Pixel in so many countries. I don't understand the reason for this - choosing the Pixel would be a no-brainer for me. But in the occasional absence of good signal, these features are valuable. (Quite satisfied A52 user otherwise, but the Pixel is so yum)

I actually bought the A54 at first, but could not stand the lagging. Returned it and bought the Pixel 7. Very happy with it, in contrast to the Finland issue, in Sweden it's very fine with 5g. The absence of SD-card is no issue, with google drive or Onedrive.

Why choose this year's mid-range instead of the previous year's flagship???.

in terms of build design i think A54 is better for me

Pixel is louder but to me the A54 sounds better

You're correct. I live in the Philippines and we have tons of options. We have Pocco, Xiaomi, Vivo, and Realme. I actually use a Redmi Note 10 pro but man I want a Google pixel and it's expensive here!

It kills me that if you look into the stats of the entire current A-series lineup, for instance on GSM Arena, you see that there are better feature options listed there than on Samsung's US shop, especially in chipsets and RAM (4GB on the A14 and A23? Really? My old S10+ sits at 4.8GB in use after my average day of app usage and "closing" them all). Turns out, those are pretty much exclusive to India where the competition at the low/midrange price point is so much stronger with the Chinese contenders. Dammit, capitalism...

Well he is right about the different vendors thing cuz here in Pakistan we don't even have pixel phones and like he said that we have other sub brands like oppo realme and poco. Like I'm using a poco phone which is the poco x3 pro and performance wise it is a gaming phone cuz it has the snapdragon 865 processor and a 120 hrz refresh rate screen, while it is an ips panel in my 1 year of using it i haven't felt any problems with outdoor visibility. So yeah as he said the pixel in Pakistan is very expensive compared to the a54 but i would choose a midrange pixel over a samsung just cuz of the camera's and software

Pixel 7 user here, has by far the worst fingerprint scanner I've ever used. Phone almost always locks up after 3 failed attempts to the point where I just started using an unlock-code instead.

I'm using a lg v60 and I would keep over both phones LG v60 almost years old. And is a better work horse over those two. Pixel 7 might be it benchmark but not in overall performance. And a54 any day get video Mathew I like pixel 7 and a54. I have xl hands. And both are just too small.

I'd get the last year a73 with sd processor

I thought the A54 had a glass back not plastic?

Awsome video! Are you aware that in EU the Galaxy A54 has always 8gb of ram despite the ROM?

Pixel did a better job at stabilising? A54 video is so bad I am getting nauseous looking at it :D if the prices are the same Pixel is way superior phone but the build quality is lower than Samsung in my opinion.

The 7? I'd still go for Pixel 6 over the A54. 7 still has no sale in my area. No Chinese phones for me so it's 6, maybe even the 6a.

A pixel for $449?! Just paid €680 for mine...

I had the 6a and had heat problems and massive signal issues in a big metropolitan area, that makes me a little nervous about picking up the pixel 7 it really doesn't matter to me if the pixel was $200 if I can't get or make calls send text or get on the Internet it's just a pretty block of aluminum and glass in my pocket 🤷‍♂️

I have noticed a BIAS comparition here, you mostly shown where the pixel 7 where it has an advantage

Pixels UI is limited.. one UI has endless options.. definitely a54 for me.

In the UK, this is from Chris,, it’s £449 i’m 54 years old I just want a reliable find we are good reception and I always use the microphone to send texts and I did watch something on KZfaq. That said their texting is really good through the microphone. Just like the Apple iPhone 8 not because a lot of people keep coming back saying Chris, what have you just said so I’m going to order it now and I’ll come back. Thank you from Chris, and I need good reception being in a wheelchair

Can those of you who have a Pixel 7 confirm if the fingerprint unlock fail @2:15 happens, and if so, does it happen often? It took him 5 sec to unlock it because of failed attempts..

You can go to settings and toggle on an option that lets you pull the notification bar from anywhere on the screen.

Could you do a screen dimming/throttling test with like an hour of Star Rail, by iPhone model?

I owned the Pixel 7 pro for a week and really didn't like it at all. I've used Samsung for many, many years, and for some reason, I just couldn't get along with the Pixel and so I returned it. Question for the A54 - can you revert to using the back button, recent apps and home button instead of having to use the swipe feature? I despised it when I had the Pixel and refuse to upgrade to a phone that forces you to use it. Thanks!

In my country the Pixel 7 isn't officially available. The new ones that get imported have their sim locked, and we have to pay an extra 38% of the phone's price to get our sim working. This makes the Pixel 7 way more expensive than a A54. And nearly 30% of the Pixel features don't even work in our region. That was the only reason I had to go with the A54.

Should I buy s23 base model or buy pixel 7 and save some bucks? My issue is in India, we dont have proper Google service centre .. however over many years I have never been to service center unless u break ur screen .. phones are reliable these days and wanna know how reliable Google's are

A54 is around around 400 euro here, the Pixel 7 around 600 euro. So I would compare the A54 to pixel 6a. No memcard slot is instantly a no go for me.

Nice video as well Matt.

I think this comparison is a bit unfair because you are comparing google's flagship against Samsung's midrange. Also the fact that the price match only happen for a certain moments instead of permanent one meaning only lucky few can actually do this comparison. As for the rest of the world I can tell you that even though Xiaomi, Realme and Poco do offer cheaper devices, there are also many samsung loyalist here who still buy A54 anyway because not only one UI is one of the best Android skin, but the 5 years update and clean ads experience itself really worth the little extra price.

in this price range another good competitor is the Oneplus 11R or the Vivo V27 and i have been confused for a while. In india A54 is like 38K INR, Pixel 7 is like 45K, Oneplus 11R is 35k or 40k. My number one requirement is good camera and then performance

The icon jitter 4:50 shows how Samsung still looks like a small team of students trying to make their own software rather than a proper smartphone company

The problem in my country is that Pixel 7 and 7a are almost 100$ more than i can get A54. Good to live in US for those phones having basically same price. I bought A54 and i still think this phone is amazing for this price. Those little stutters doesn't really bothering me since it happens mostly only when u first time open or scroll an app/game while it's off ram or background running.

You didn't mention the fact that while the a54 does have a plastic frame on the sides, it's back is actually made of glass, just like the s23 plus, except the s23 plus has a matte finish, while the a54 has a glossy finish

Pixel 7 doesn't have discounts in inda as in US. It's the same price😢

Both are pretty good handsets. You'll be happy with either. Basically any current midrange or slightly older flagship will suit someone just fine for a few years. And did this donut conplain about the bezels on the a54? Are we STILL complaining about bezels in 2023?

Here in my corner of Europe the Pixel 7 is 50 percent more expensive than the A54. The Pixel 7a will probably be a fairer fight for the Samsung.

One UI is smoother and more refined than Google's skin... Also side panels, adjustable flashlight, goodlock, and superior multi window implementation... Sammy has better software, and this is coming from someone who detested them during the Touchwiz days.

The standard video quality for comparisons between phones should be 1080p, let's be honest if you're using android your 4k video can't be uploaded to any social media platform, best they do is 1080p also i'm sure most of you guys are watching this video in 1080p too

I'm actually debating if I should get the A54 or 7a... I know the camera in Pixel is really good but I'm concerned more in the battery cus Pixel have smaller battery (from what I've researched) as well as expandable slot

All those vendors like Xiaomi Poco etc. their weakness is the camera and for me honestly, I don't need to play with my phone anymore. Daily use is more important and taking photos definitely comes down to pixel is better. Unfortunately, the price is what makes me wonder if it's worth it.

A54 claps every single poco/realme etc phone at the current price it is (can be found at $370-380 ish) Maybe not in performance but it has higher build quality and better cameras + 2 years more software updates and is a better all rounder overall. Better poco phones (like the F5 series) or the Pixel 7, cost about $100+ more here, and even the pixel 7a costs more.

The Samsung has dropped to $330 on Amazon recently. However if the phones are at the same price, it's the pixel every time, the smoother user interface alone is enough.

nice side by side comparisons. thx for vid.

The a54 is one of those phones where if you (i don't know the best words in english) bind yourself to a 12 month mobile subscription you get the phone super cheap. What i do when i buy a new phone is i find one that my subscription carrier has on half price if you get a new 12 month subscription, and i just tell them hey im already with your subscription, but bind me for 12 months, and then i get the phone for half price. You're not losing anything since you are already using that mobile carrier anyways and you get a phone for half the price.

I want to try a google phone, been using poco for 5 years now and the miui is disgusting and the bloatware is annoying. But the thing is I dont really use google services that much on any other device, in fact only gmail and google search itself.. I even prefer firefox over chrome, so does it even make sense for me to buy the pixel?

Call me crazy but I thought the A54 photos looked better

Good precise analysis, thanks

I got a Pixel 7 for 460, less than what the A54 is on sale for in my country and I'm happy with It.

What if both phones are the same price to $50 more?. I also hear pixel has had major issues lately with over heating and mega battery drainage which both you have failed to mention

i dont understand why do we need to reach the top of the phones with our thumb with android 13. just swipe down from any part of the screen twice to get the notication tab

I'm about to get rid of my pixel 6 and don't think I'd even try another Google phone

I remember when I bought the Google pixel for $40 by trading in an iphone XR