The great divide in the smartphone world is between Android and iPhone. There are arguments aplenty and adherents of both camps can be equally passionate about why one is better than the other. But there’s another very fundamental division that doesn’t get talked about much, and that’s between American phones like the iPhones and the Pixels, and Chinese phones like those from Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo (Samsung sits somewhere in the middle).
I’ve had the Google Pixel 8 with me for over a month as my daily driver. Before I get down to the nitty-gritties, I can say this much – this is the quintessential American Android phone, the iPhone of Androids.
