The Samsung Galaxy Ultra is a solid device that offers a range of features and performance. One of the notable aspects of this device is its animation consistency, which is not as seamless as what's offered by some other devices like the Pixel 6 Pro.

However, animations on the Samsung device can be inconsistent, which might take away from the overall experience. The fluidity of animations is an important aspect to consider, and while the Galaxy Ultra delivers in this regard, it still falls short compared to some other devices. Despite this, the device's performance is not too far behind.

The fingerprint scanning feature on the Samsung Galaxy Ultra has been a topic of discussion among users, with some experiencing issues with the sensor. However, I've had minimal problems with my own device, and overall, the fingerprint scanner has performed well for me. The speed and reliability of the sensor have made it an essential part of my daily routine.

One area where the Galaxy Ultra excels is in its charging speed. Despite this, I wish the device charged faster, but I rarely need to use a fast charger during the course of an average day. This is particularly notable when compared to the Pixel 6 Pro, which can charge slower even with a fast-charging cable.

Battery life has been a concern for some users, including myself, as I've had limited time to test it thoroughly. However, I've heard that battery life on the Pixel 6 could be questionable and is likely to require future software updates to address. The Galaxy Ultra, on the other hand, can easily last an entire day with heavy use, making it a reliable choice for those who need a device that can keep up.

The audio quality on the Samsung Galaxy Ultra's speakers is not as impressive as what I've experienced on the Pixel 6 Pro. In fact, I prefer the speaker on the Pixel 6 Pro more than the Samsung, citing its richer sound and better ability to isolate voice in video recordings. However, when using the speakers for general listening purposes, the Samsung device still delivers a decent experience.

The always-on display feature on both devices is an interesting aspect to consider. While I appreciate the Always-On Display on my Galaxy, I have issues with it being displayed as a giant clock screen when notifications are not present. This can be distracting and unnecessary. In contrast, the Pixel 6 Pro's Always-On Display has some limitations in terms of customization and readability.

The experience between the Samsung Galaxy Ultra and the Pixel 6 Pro is distinct from one another. While both devices offer unique experiences, I initially found myself drawn to the Samsung device due to its more intuitive interface and better performance. However, my initial impressions were later changed when I transitioned to using a Pixel 4 XL and discovered that I preferred it.

Between the two devices, out of the box experience and fluidity play a significant role. For these aspects, I would give the edge to Samsung specifically on the S21 Ultra due to its lack of general lag and improved consistency in animations. However, camera performance has been an issue for me with the Galaxy Ultra's 6 series model, something that I plan to discuss further in separate videos.

In conclusion, while both devices have their strengths and weaknesses, my overall preference is to use the Samsung device due to its seamless animation experience and better performance. Nevertheless, I'm willing to give the Pixel 6 Pro a try and see how it works out for me.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello galaxy i'm chris pirillo and you're watching the locker gnome daily report or tldr for short i am streaming live every night on twitch feel free to join me in the rest of the community over there we're geeking out about one thing or another and what was it yesterday i finally got and i say finally because you know everybody else on the planet seemed to have received one before i did i got a google pastel six pro which of course i fun boxed for everybody don't know if you caught that and then this morning i streamed live on youtube at least at the time that i'm uh recording this particular video uh talking about my initial impressions of the uh google pastel six pro and i thought i would give you a comparison of my experience with the pastel 6 pro and the samsung galaxy s21 ultra i've been using the s21 for how long six months or so it's been a while and i switched from a pixel 4 xl to the s21 uh thinking that when i got the pixel 6 pro it is the pixel 6 pro i joked because material u on android 12 specifically on the google pixel uh is all pastel so this is like the pastel six pro uh no way around it if you don't like pastel good luck uh of course if you use samsung good luck it's a samsung inside joke either way i was expecting when i got this that i'd be flipping to it like switching to the pixel 6 pro within like a few hours of getting it set up that said i'm not so sure now i don't know if this means that suddenly i've uh become more of a fan of what samsung has been doing with hardware and software just that i'm not really um what's the best word to use here blown away by this iteration of the pixel i've been a pixel fan for years specifically because what google did with the software and that's probably why my initial impressions with the six pro were so muted for the lack of a better term watered down i i wasn't as impressed as others might have been coming from earlier pixels but certainly in comparison to the samsung galaxy s21 ultra this has been a good device like so good so solid despite its array of shortcomings that there's nothing that's causing me such amazing pain that i felt like i needed to jump to another device immediately i feel like i'm still in play like in terms of what uh what they call a daily driver would be uh but i'm not so sure the pixel 6 pro is it like if if i had to give a a a you know uh you know an assessment in terms of what it was that i would want to use today after using the pixel 6 pro for a day i'd probably choose the samsung galaxy s21 ultra over the pixel 6 pro despite me liking uh the pure software experience that google has in the 6 pro oh no sorry i'm triggering google left and right triggered okay so i thought i'd run down thank you i don't need a search i'm doing a video can you thank you uh obviously you can use the google assistant i don't use bixby on the uh uh the samsung galaxy s21 ultra so uh here's a rundown of some comparisons that i've been making in my using in my experience uh lag this is something i'm very sensitive to i've been sensitive to this going all the way back to the days of like windows vista at least uh you know right in that era uh and uh i can say that while the samsung experience is not completely lag free it does have lag with android 11 uh it's not as dramatic or um it's mitigated in such a way where normally where you'd have a frame drop on a samsung screen the screen like smoothly jutters a bit but it's not as jarring as the lag that you might get on any other android device a typical android experience chrome by the way is laggy across all devices twitter is horrible absolutely ghastly the amazon app just as bad but not nearly as bad on the samsung device compared to the pixel even scrolling on the launcher and i'll get to the launcher in a second there's lag some of this could be mitigated in software that's what they always say well you know it's going to be you don't know we don't know i can't judge this based on what this device is going to be six months from now i'm just judging from what it is now my choice is right now what am i going to use right now what am i seeing right now that's all i can do is talk to my experience and i'm telling you the pixel 6 pro got lag it's got lagging on all sorts of areas and i'm not even talking about just random glitchiness some have suggested that if you do a fresh install without you know restoring a backup then the glitchiness disappears i i don't know about that i haven't had any app crashes necessarily i think that mitigates app crashes potentially but the the the slop that i've seen on android 12 uh existed throughout the android 12 beta on the pixel 4xl so i i i don't i don't think it's anything related to i i think that android 12 may need more time to bake that's entirely possible but the lag is very apparent in various spots though that said both of these devices uh i i don't know what their specs are specifically but both of them are very fluid the screen is very responsive in general on both the devices they're both both very usable in that sense it's just that the lag is definitely a lot more pronounced in a lot more spots um in in in in various apps on the pixel device uh compared to the samsung device and i'm telling you i noticed these very small differences and to me lag is the first thing i look for in a device like frame drops animation jutter like what's smooth what's not smooth i'm going to go with the smoothest device that i could possibly get so right now that is the primary reason i'm probably going to sideline the pixel um so i'm just these are written at random i've been doing camera comparison tests and we'll be hosting those videos in the coming days uh between the pixel 6 pro the samsung galaxy s21 ultra as well as the iphone 13 pro max with the ios what is it 15.1 whatever they're on now um so i'm kind of surprised the pixel camera on the 6 pro doesn't doesn't really seem to be that that much better i mean maybe even in some ways worse than the pixel 4xl was i know that sounds weird but like when i'm doing comparisons i'm like wow i mean there's some shots the pixel it does very well on and some shots that it doesn't and there are times that i'm like oh yeah the night mode on the pixel sometimes works better uh than the samsung and other times it doesn't it's kind of shocking so the camera is the thing that drives people to the pixel or should that software experience is the thing that drives people for the to the pixel or it should and those two things i'm not really i'm not i'm not seeing and i've been using these devices the pixel series for years uh and i'm just saying that wait until the camera comparison videos come out and you can judge for yourself but to my eyes ah yeah it's almost a wash i'm not saying one is dramatically better than the other one is dramatically worse i did try the magic eraser tool which by the way i don't know why that's a pixel exclusive it should just be baked into google photos especially if you're paying for google one maybe at one point that feature will be in it's pretty cool it's pretty neat it works really well compared to samsung's samsung's is still within the range of gimmicky uh and google's done a very good job with the magic eraser tool but that's such a minor point in relation to the camera output the actual photos that you take stay tuned for a full test on that uh voice typing the google pixel it has always been fast snappy immediate perfect or darn near perfect i love the voice typing of uh on the google pixel samsung's works especially when you use uh the the google uh underlying uh you know the the platform uh to to power it uh but it's it's slower not like snails pay slow but it's definitely a lot slower like night and day slower and i use voice dictation all the time and like after i finish typing or talking i want to go and you can do that with the pixel you can't do that with the samsung so that's definitely something that i noticed with with the the pixel uh six pro um i have to look at it like i'm trying to remember what the hell it is uh fingerprints i keep cases on it no big deal but i i believe that the pixel 6 pro definitely attracts a lot more fingerprints without the case on i pointed out in the fun boxing yesterday i don't remember the the galaxy ultra attracting that many fingerprints immediately um the uh the next thing i was going to talk about dark mode this is also something i look for because i'm a pure black dark mode like amoled dark black black black black dark mode samsung absolutely wins samsung's all over true dark mode true dark mode is black black black black and that's what samsung does google is like hey you get a kind of pastel gray grayish darkish but not really true dark it's just dark we so that you know between the two dark modes i would choose the samsung galaxy ultra um launcher the default launcher experience says android has been known to have problems with every single third-party launcher every one of them there are issues and specifically they i guess the way that android's implementing the nav bar lately they're just glitches with third-party launchers that don't exist with first-party launchers and between the two the pixel launcher is definitely needing a lot more bacon a lot more time in the oven i feel we've lost a lot of customization features in the pixel specifically with the release of android 12. i don't care what they're doing with the material you it's a pretty cool idea i question the implementation uh the launcher is kind of messy uh no real way of organizing things rather than manually having to do it versus the uh the samsung galaxy launcher which i feel is is a lot more not just configurable but cleaner it's a better experience on the samsung smoother a bit smoother but cleaner and then of course when you download good lock which you should do for the samsung galaxy ultra and then download the modules within it it's like an unofficial samsung app made by samsung in the galaxy store you need it on your samsung device the pixel needs something like good luck or tweak ui if you remember the windows 95 days it doesn't have it so between the launchers i definitely and i use the div i have to use the default launchers because the glitch is in android with all third-party launchers definitely the samsung navbar experience night and day on the samsung device just like other android oems you can hide it entirely they call it just your hints or whatever easy to turn off and get out of the way so there's consistency between the apps because app developers are not on the same page so there's a lot more consistency with turning off the nav bar because you know where it is anyway on the samsung device unfortunately there's still a great amount of sloppiness with the nav bar inconsistencies in uh on the pixel one example right now chrome the nav bar doesn't have a transparent background but like in in other apps it does have a transparent background right and it's just it's it's app contingent and it's just not clean and even when you swipe up in in the app the app switcher it's not as it doesn't look clean between the apps they just look like at the bottom and the top it just looks off versus on the samsung device especially with task switching the way i've set it up in good lock so they're more capsules rather than full screen screenshots that you have on the pixel it's just it's easier and faster for me to do the things i need to do forget the speed of the device the experience is just far better on the samsung galaxy ultra from my my time compared to the the the pixel 6 pro and the nav bar is certainly a part of it because of course you're navigating between apps uh split screen i use it every day when i do the inspirational motivational videos uh that i post on youtube tik tok instagram twitter i put them everywhere thank you for watching a lot of people really get a lot out of them and the split screen even though it's on android needs a lot of work now maybe android l which is right around the corner will improve that somewhat but it's really bad on the pixel like really glitchy and really kind of half baked compared to the way samsung has executed it specifically on the galaxy ultra like it's it's just more fluid more intuitive uh faster um better to use easier to use so between this split screen stuff which i use now every day definitely the samsung um notifications uh the notifications aren't as bad as i i thought they were i think the snooze button should be moved a bit to increase the uh the pixel usage in a notification on the pixel maybe it's just that i don't like how notifications are displayed on the pixel compared to the samsung because again i like the black stuff i just wanna i just i want the notification to be there but not to jump out at me in a capsule and i feel i get that uh with the samsung galaxy ultra even natively uh compared to the the native uh the notification feature in the in the pixel everything seems to get cut off uh in in and cropped in such a way on the pixel that i don't feel like the notification center is as usable as it is on the uh on the samsung galaxy ultra including the shade right you've got your you know you pull down your options and you can you know you've got circular buttons so you get more options on one screen at one time versus these large capsules on the pixel so again that that's not just a design choice it's a usability choice i have more options at my fingertips it's not about memory mapping you know like remembering where everything is is just the usability of using this large screen it makes more sense the way that samsung's been doing it than the way google made their change now granted they're probably going to back you know what they say and say oh well more people appreciate it okay i'm not sure i i do so if you like it that's awesome i'm just telling you my experience and i don't like the way that uh the notification shade and the notifications and what have you render on the pixel compared to the s21 ultra in terms of customization samsung's definitely got it over the pixel pixels trying to go middle of the road very bare bones don't they don't give you a lot to explore a lot of native stuff that you don't even have to download for versus the samsung which every time i turn around i'm like oh cool that's a little feature i didn't know existed wow that samsung could have done a better job of servicing it samsung's pack their devices with a lot of options uh that you don't need to download for it's just they thought through and they've really added a layer of value on top of android now app bloat samsung loses because google's just pure google and samsung's gives you things that you kind of already have or would already use and they don't allow you i mean you can install them side by side you can hide apps in the launcher you can ignore all the samsung on a samsung device and i'm telling you can do it i've done it it's it's relatively easy to do otherwise i wouldn't be sitting here saying that the samsung software is better than the pixel software but it's true uh so customization i feel samsung is definitely ahead of the game uh not just with a good lock experience uh but just just those those small touches you know hiding the nav bar for that's just one example of other things they've added the the gesture design uh animations between the two they're both fluid i feel google's more straightforward samsung's doing some funkiness i don't know why they mess with the animations i wish they wouldn't samsung's gotta really clean things up with the animations they're not horrible but it's just the consistency of animations on the samsung device i wish were better still fluid uh but but the animations are are just not consistent on samsung versus the pixel 6 pro that doesn't take me out of the experience though uh the fingerprint scanning fingerprint sensor a lot of people have been complaining about the six six hole sure the six hole uh fingerprint scan i haven't had too many issues there have been times i've had to rescan the fingerprint but no more than i've had to rescan my fingerprint on the the samsung uh in display reader uh so at this point they're about or have been about the same for me in terms of speed in terms of being able to use i got i got to be you know direct with you i haven't run into that many issues with it in the past day and i've been unlocking with the fingerprint a lot in terms of screen size they feel about the same very very large uh charging speed it's been i guess demonstrated that the pixel charges slower even on a fast charging cable compared to the samsung so that's nice to know uh i wish this did charge faster but i i rarely need to use a fast charge uh during the course of the average day battery life haven't really had a chance to to experiment uh i i guess the battery life i've heard on the pixel 6 could be pretty questionable that does concern maybe they will continue to tweak that with future software updates but the samsung galaxy ultra can get through an entire day with heavy use and not worry about it uh in terms of speakers the audio quality on the pixel 6 pro is really impressive in fact i think i prefer the speaker on the 6 pro more than the samsung like it's just it's a richer sound especially when you're listening to voice forget about the video recording being able to isolate the voice uh audio on on the the pixel camera i mean the actual speakers themselves i like the pixel 6 speakers more so than i like the samsung speakers and i do use the speakers especially when i'm watching video on the go so i would definitely say that the pixel 6 pro has it over that uh the always-on display cannot stand the always-on display on the pixel uh because uh it's this giant clock when you when i don't have notifications uh let me swipe them all away here it's this giant i don't like the clock like that i know 527 i get it yeah so about a half hour before we give away the prusa mini plus on uh on on the live stream on twitch uh so here's the notif this is the i don't have to swipe away the notifications here but i always have this clock that i can see that's nice and bold and big and i can read it immediately without thinking 527 like i love the always on display on the uh on the galaxy versus the pixel i just and there's no customization on it on the pixel right now too either and if when you're not looking at it that thicker font goes thin too which is annoying as hell uh but it's the way that that google's decided to do it no tweaking uh in terms of overarching experience so far like i said my initial impressions of the pixel weren't that good i mean i was just like uh i don't know if i really want to switch to this so with the samsung i was immediately drawn into it to the point where okay my pixel 4 xl was busted i'm like i'm going to try this and i felt like it was a better experience like almost immediately like wow i really like this i could get i could get used to it i could work through things and and i really like how samsung started to do things not everything uh i'm not giving him a pass but uh between the two for out of the box experience i would give it to samsung specifically the s21 ultra for fluidity for the lack of general lack of lag uh that there hasn't necessarily been tweaked uh general camera performance i've run into other issues with the camera the six uh that i'll detail with that particular video in the coming days um so to me i felt like i was ready to upgrade to the s21 ultra immediately and i'm not saying that the pixel 6 pro is a step backwards from the s21 but i i just i'm not sure i i want to switch to the six pro i'm gonna use it i'm gonna keep it i'm gonna you know keep my honor i'm gonna you know work it into my workflow in some way shape or form whether using it as webcam you know i've talked about that software before as well or what have you uh stay tuned for more i don't know if i addressed the thing that you wanted to know about the pixel 6 versus the s21 ultra but i'm always talking about this stuff on live.pirillo.comhello galaxy i'm chris pirillo and you're watching the locker gnome daily report or tldr for short i am streaming live every night on twitch feel free to join me in the rest of the community over there we're geeking out about one thing or another and what was it yesterday i finally got and i say finally because you know everybody else on the planet seemed to have received one before i did i got a google pastel six pro which of course i fun boxed for everybody don't know if you caught that and then this morning i streamed live on youtube at least at the time that i'm uh recording this particular video uh talking about my initial impressions of the uh google pastel six pro and i thought i would give you a comparison of my experience with the pastel 6 pro and the samsung galaxy s21 ultra i've been using the s21 for how long six months or so it's been a while and i switched from a pixel 4 xl to the s21 uh thinking that when i got the pixel 6 pro it is the pixel 6 pro i joked because material u on android 12 specifically on the google pixel uh is all pastel so this is like the pastel six pro uh no way around it if you don't like pastel good luck uh of course if you use samsung good luck it's a samsung inside joke either way i was expecting when i got this that i'd be flipping to it like switching to the pixel 6 pro within like a few hours of getting it set up that said i'm not so sure now i don't know if this means that suddenly i've uh become more of a fan of what samsung has been doing with hardware and software just that i'm not really um what's the best word to use here blown away by this iteration of the pixel i've been a pixel fan for years specifically because what google did with the software and that's probably why my initial impressions with the six pro were so muted for the lack of a better term watered down i i wasn't as impressed as others might have been coming from earlier pixels but certainly in comparison to the samsung galaxy s21 ultra this has been a good device like so good so solid despite its array of shortcomings that there's nothing that's causing me such amazing pain that i felt like i needed to jump to another device immediately i feel like i'm still in play like in terms of what uh what they call a daily driver would be uh but i'm not so sure the pixel 6 pro is it like if if i had to give a a a you know uh you know an assessment in terms of what it was that i would want to use today after using the pixel 6 pro for a day i'd probably choose the samsung galaxy s21 ultra over the pixel 6 pro despite me liking uh the pure software experience that google has in the 6 pro oh no sorry i'm triggering google left and right triggered okay so i thought i'd run down thank you i don't need a search i'm doing a video can you thank you uh obviously you can use the google assistant i don't use bixby on the uh uh the samsung galaxy s21 ultra so uh here's a rundown of some comparisons that i've been making in my using in my experience uh lag this is something i'm very sensitive to i've been sensitive to this going all the way back to the days of like windows vista at least uh you know right in that era uh and uh i can say that while the samsung experience is not completely lag free it does have lag with android 11 uh it's not as dramatic or um it's mitigated in such a way where normally where you'd have a frame drop on a samsung screen the screen like smoothly jutters a bit but it's not as jarring as the lag that you might get on any other android device a typical android experience chrome by the way is laggy across all devices twitter is horrible absolutely ghastly the amazon app just as bad but not nearly as bad on the samsung device compared to the pixel even scrolling on the launcher and i'll get to the launcher in a second there's lag some of this could be mitigated in software that's what they always say well you know it's going to be you don't know we don't know i can't judge this based on what this device is going to be six months from now i'm just judging from what it is now my choice is right now what am i going to use right now what am i seeing right now that's all i can do is talk to my experience and i'm telling you the pixel 6 pro got lag it's got lagging on all sorts of areas and i'm not even talking about just random glitchiness some have suggested that if you do a fresh install without you know restoring a backup then the glitchiness disappears i i don't know about that i haven't had any app crashes necessarily i think that mitigates app crashes potentially but the the the slop that i've seen on android 12 uh existed throughout the android 12 beta on the pixel 4xl so i i i don't i don't think it's anything related to i i think that android 12 may need more time to bake that's entirely possible but the lag is very apparent in various spots though that said both of these devices uh i i don't know what their specs are specifically but both of them are very fluid the screen is very responsive in general on both the devices they're both both very usable in that sense it's just that the lag is definitely a lot more pronounced in a lot more spots um in in in in various apps on the pixel device uh compared to the samsung device and i'm telling you i noticed these very small differences and to me lag is the first thing i look for in a device like frame drops animation jutter like what's smooth what's not smooth i'm going to go with the smoothest device that i could possibly get so right now that is the primary reason i'm probably going to sideline the pixel um so i'm just these are written at random i've been doing camera comparison tests and we'll be hosting those videos in the coming days uh between the pixel 6 pro the samsung galaxy s21 ultra as well as the iphone 13 pro max with the ios what is it 15.1 whatever they're on now um so i'm kind of surprised the pixel camera on the 6 pro doesn't doesn't really seem to be that that much better i mean maybe even in some ways worse than the pixel 4xl was i know that sounds weird but like when i'm doing comparisons i'm like wow i mean there's some shots the pixel it does very well on and some shots that it doesn't and there are times that i'm like oh yeah the night mode on the pixel sometimes works better uh than the samsung and other times it doesn't it's kind of shocking so the camera is the thing that drives people to the pixel or should that software experience is the thing that drives people for the to the pixel or it should and those two things i'm not really i'm not i'm not seeing and i've been using these devices the pixel series for years uh and i'm just saying that wait until the camera comparison videos come out and you can judge for yourself but to my eyes ah yeah it's almost a wash i'm not saying one is dramatically better than the other one is dramatically worse i did try the magic eraser tool which by the way i don't know why that's a pixel exclusive it should just be baked into google photos especially if you're paying for google one maybe at one point that feature will be in it's pretty cool it's pretty neat it works really well compared to samsung's samsung's is still within the range of gimmicky uh and google's done a very good job with the magic eraser tool but that's such a minor point in relation to the camera output the actual photos that you take stay tuned for a full test on that uh voice typing the google pixel it has always been fast snappy immediate perfect or darn near perfect i love the voice typing of uh on the google pixel samsung's works especially when you use uh the the google uh underlying uh you know the the platform uh to to power it uh but it's it's slower not like snails pay slow but it's definitely a lot slower like night and day slower and i use voice dictation all the time and like after i finish typing or talking i want to go and you can do that with the pixel you can't do that with the samsung so that's definitely something that i noticed with with the the pixel uh six pro um i have to look at it like i'm trying to remember what the hell it is uh fingerprints i keep cases on it no big deal but i i believe that the pixel 6 pro definitely attracts a lot more fingerprints without the case on i pointed out in the fun boxing yesterday i don't remember the the galaxy ultra attracting that many fingerprints immediately um the uh the next thing i was going to talk about dark mode this is also something i look for because i'm a pure black dark mode like amoled dark black black black black dark mode samsung absolutely wins samsung's all over true dark mode true dark mode is black black black black and that's what samsung does google is like hey you get a kind of pastel gray grayish darkish but not really true dark it's just dark we so that you know between the two dark modes i would choose the samsung galaxy ultra um launcher the default launcher experience says android has been known to have problems with every single third-party launcher every one of them there are issues and specifically they i guess the way that android's implementing the nav bar lately they're just glitches with third-party launchers that don't exist with first-party launchers and between the two the pixel launcher is definitely needing a lot more bacon a lot more time in the oven i feel we've lost a lot of customization features in the pixel specifically with the release of android 12. i don't care what they're doing with the material you it's a pretty cool idea i question the implementation uh the launcher is kind of messy uh no real way of organizing things rather than manually having to do it versus the uh the samsung galaxy launcher which i feel is is a lot more not just configurable but cleaner it's a better experience on the samsung smoother a bit smoother but cleaner and then of course when you download good lock which you should do for the samsung galaxy ultra and then download the modules within it it's like an unofficial samsung app made by samsung in the galaxy store you need it on your samsung device the pixel needs something like good luck or tweak ui if you remember the windows 95 days it doesn't have it so between the launchers i definitely and i use the div i have to use the default launchers because the glitch is in android with all third-party launchers definitely the samsung navbar experience night and day on the samsung device just like other android oems you can hide it entirely they call it just your hints or whatever easy to turn off and get out of the way so there's consistency between the apps because app developers are not on the same page so there's a lot more consistency with turning off the nav bar because you know where it is anyway on the samsung device unfortunately there's still a great amount of sloppiness with the nav bar inconsistencies in uh on the pixel one example right now chrome the nav bar doesn't have a transparent background but like in in other apps it does have a transparent background right and it's just it's it's app contingent and it's just not clean and even when you swipe up in in the app the app switcher it's not as it doesn't look clean between the apps they just look like at the bottom and the top it just looks off versus on the samsung device especially with task switching the way i've set it up in good lock so they're more capsules rather than full screen screenshots that you have on the pixel it's just it's easier and faster for me to do the things i need to do forget the speed of the device the experience is just far better on the samsung galaxy ultra from my my time compared to the the the pixel 6 pro and the nav bar is certainly a part of it because of course you're navigating between apps uh split screen i use it every day when i do the inspirational motivational videos uh that i post on youtube tik tok instagram twitter i put them everywhere thank you for watching a lot of people really get a lot out of them and the split screen even though it's on android needs a lot of work now maybe android l which is right around the corner will improve that somewhat but it's really bad on the pixel like really glitchy and really kind of half baked compared to the way samsung has executed it specifically on the galaxy ultra like it's it's just more fluid more intuitive uh faster um better to use easier to use so between this split screen stuff which i use now every day definitely the samsung um notifications uh the notifications aren't as bad as i i thought they were i think the snooze button should be moved a bit to increase the uh the pixel usage in a notification on the pixel maybe it's just that i don't like how notifications are displayed on the pixel compared to the samsung because again i like the black stuff i just wanna i just i want the notification to be there but not to jump out at me in a capsule and i feel i get that uh with the samsung galaxy ultra even natively uh compared to the the native uh the notification feature in the in the pixel everything seems to get cut off uh in in and cropped in such a way on the pixel that i don't feel like the notification center is as usable as it is on the uh on the samsung galaxy ultra including the shade right you've got your you know you pull down your options and you can you know you've got circular buttons so you get more options on one screen at one time versus these large capsules on the pixel so again that that's not just a design choice it's a usability choice i have more options at my fingertips it's not about memory mapping you know like remembering where everything is is just the usability of using this large screen it makes more sense the way that samsung's been doing it than the way google made their change now granted they're probably going to back you know what they say and say oh well more people appreciate it okay i'm not sure i i do so if you like it that's awesome i'm just telling you my experience and i don't like the way that uh the notification shade and the notifications and what have you render on the pixel compared to the s21 ultra in terms of customization samsung's definitely got it over the pixel pixels trying to go middle of the road very bare bones don't they don't give you a lot to explore a lot of native stuff that you don't even have to download for versus the samsung which every time i turn around i'm like oh cool that's a little feature i didn't know existed wow that samsung could have done a better job of servicing it samsung's pack their devices with a lot of options uh that you don't need to download for it's just they thought through and they've really added a layer of value on top of android now app bloat samsung loses because google's just pure google and samsung's gives you things that you kind of already have or would already use and they don't allow you i mean you can install them side by side you can hide apps in the launcher you can ignore all the samsung on a samsung device and i'm telling you can do it i've done it it's it's relatively easy to do otherwise i wouldn't be sitting here saying that the samsung software is better than the pixel software but it's true uh so customization i feel samsung is definitely ahead of the game uh not just with a good lock experience uh but just just those those small touches you know hiding the nav bar for that's just one example of other things they've added the the gesture design uh animations between the two they're both fluid i feel google's more straightforward samsung's doing some funkiness i don't know why they mess with the animations i wish they wouldn't samsung's gotta really clean things up with the animations they're not horrible but it's just the consistency of animations on the samsung device i wish were better still fluid uh but but the animations are are just not consistent on samsung versus the pixel 6 pro that doesn't take me out of the experience though uh the fingerprint scanning fingerprint sensor a lot of people have been complaining about the six six hole sure the six hole uh fingerprint scan i haven't had too many issues there have been times i've had to rescan the fingerprint but no more than i've had to rescan my fingerprint on the the samsung uh in display reader uh so at this point they're about or have been about the same for me in terms of speed in terms of being able to use i got i got to be you know direct with you i haven't run into that many issues with it in the past day and i've been unlocking with the fingerprint a lot in terms of screen size they feel about the same very very large uh charging speed it's been i guess demonstrated that the pixel charges slower even on a fast charging cable compared to the samsung so that's nice to know uh i wish this did charge faster but i i rarely need to use a fast charge uh during the course of the average day battery life haven't really had a chance to to experiment uh i i guess the battery life i've heard on the pixel 6 could be pretty questionable that does concern maybe they will continue to tweak that with future software updates but the samsung galaxy ultra can get through an entire day with heavy use and not worry about it uh in terms of speakers the audio quality on the pixel 6 pro is really impressive in fact i think i prefer the speaker on the 6 pro more than the samsung like it's just it's a richer sound especially when you're listening to voice forget about the video recording being able to isolate the voice uh audio on on the the pixel camera i mean the actual speakers themselves i like the pixel 6 speakers more so than i like the samsung speakers and i do use the speakers especially when i'm watching video on the go so i would definitely say that the pixel 6 pro has it over that uh the always-on display cannot stand the always-on display on the pixel uh because uh it's this giant clock when you when i don't have notifications uh let me swipe them all away here it's this giant i don't like the clock like that i know 527 i get it yeah so about a half hour before we give away the prusa mini plus on uh on on the live stream on twitch uh so here's the notif this is the i don't have to swipe away the notifications here but i always have this clock that i can see that's nice and bold and big and i can read it immediately without thinking 527 like i love the always on display on the uh on the galaxy versus the pixel i just and there's no customization on it on the pixel right now too either and if when you're not looking at it that thicker font goes thin too which is annoying as hell uh but it's the way that that google's decided to do it no tweaking uh in terms of overarching experience so far like i said my initial impressions of the pixel weren't that good i mean i was just like uh i don't know if i really want to switch to this so with the samsung i was immediately drawn into it to the point where okay my pixel 4 xl was busted i'm like i'm going to try this and i felt like it was a better experience like almost immediately like wow i really like this i could get i could get used to it i could work through things and and i really like how samsung started to do things not everything uh i'm not giving him a pass but uh between the two for out of the box experience i would give it to samsung specifically the s21 ultra for fluidity for the lack of general lack of lag uh that there hasn't necessarily been tweaked uh general camera performance i've run into other issues with the camera the six uh that i'll detail with that particular video in the coming days um so to me i felt like i was ready to upgrade to the s21 ultra immediately and i'm not saying that the pixel 6 pro is a step backwards from the s21 but i i just i'm not sure i i want to switch to the six pro i'm gonna use it i'm gonna keep it i'm gonna you know keep my honor i'm gonna you know work it into my workflow in some way shape or form whether using it as webcam you know i've talked about that software before as well or what have you uh stay tuned for more i don't know if i addressed the thing that you wanted to know about the pixel 6 versus the s21 ultra but i'm always talking about this stuff on live.pirillo.com\n"