Just on price alone, the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro have the potential to be a total shapeshifter for the state of Android and expectations around the ecosystem. For context, Samsung's current top-of-the-line standard Android flagship, the Galaxy S21, starts at $800 in its smallest available model and goes up to $1,200 for the most premium, plus-sized version - the one that's most comparable to the Pixel 6 Pro. (The prices do go up from there, but only as a result of increased local storage capacity.) That, if you'll pardon my French, is gosh-darned cuckoo. We'll start with the most obviously prominent Pixel number, and that's the price: The Pixel 6 is selling for an almost shockingly low $600 in the U.S., in its lowest storage configuration, while the Pixel 6 Pro will run $900 in its base-model option. (Hint: The comparison isn't as simple and straightforward as you might expect.) Today, I want to talk a bit about the most consequential Pixel 6 revelations of all - actually, two of 'em.Īnd fair warning: My logic around this might come as a surprise. We'll save the nitty-gritty of the Pixel-using experience and how the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro differ, specifically, for another day. I've been totin' the Pixel 6 and its plus-sized sibling around in my dusty ol' dungarees for nearly a week at this point, and lemme tell ya: Based on these first several days, the devices are every bit as impressive as we'd been hoping they would be. Well, okay: To be fair, they've technically been in the world for a handful of days now - at least, for those of us lucky enough to receive loaner review units for evaluation. They're really, truly, officially here.Īfter what's felt like 47 years of waiting and approximately 994 gazillion unofficial leaks, Google's Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones are out of hiding and on their way into the world.