Google has long been known for offering smartphones that are cheaper than its rivals. How much cheaper always depended on the model, but if you go back to any point in the past 14 years, you’ll find that Google’s phones were considered the cheaper alternative compared to the likes of Samsung's Galaxy S devices and Apple’s iPhone.
While there were some outliers — the Nexus 6 which actually cost $50 more than that year’s iPhone 7 — you usually could get a pretty solid phone without having to pay quite as much money, even as Google’s flagships got more expensive.
