Google Pixel is priced at a point where people expect a premium experience — and in many ways, Google has delivered. The aluminum body looks and feels nice, the software is incredibly smooth and capable, the camera is out of this world excellent almost every time, and the battery life is on the higher end of functional. This is a great phone, and when you factor in security updates this is going to be the phone I recommend to people for a long time. That said, over the last few days I found myself missing the kitchen sink of features that comes with owning a Galaxy Note 7. Before it was the laughing stock of the world for occasionally turning into a heap of molten slag, the Note 7 had some lessons to teach every other phone. Verizon is offering the Pixel 4a for just $10/mo on new Unlimited lines "Pro" camera mode

Google's camera app for the Pixel couldn't be easier to use, and the shots you get from this phone are incredible, but I want more. Specifically, when I took a trip out to the middle of nowhere to play with light painting I was reminded that there's no way to do that in Google's stock camera. You can install other apps to accomplish long exposure shots, but you'd think a phone trying to offer a premium experience would bake something like that in right? Samsung's camera app isn't the easiest to use, but the ability access Pro mode and gain remarkable control over your photography is one of the things that makes the S7, S7 edge, and Note 7 so great. It's a fairly small thing overall, but useful when you need it. Expandable storage

Especially now that Google has made it possible to add storage to your phone in a permanent fashion, WHY hasn't Google seen fit to add removable storage to their big flagship phones? Why bother with the feature if you're not going to use it? Samsung doesn't offer Adoptable Storage by default on their phones, but there's so much you can use the SD card for now that cameras are recording in 4K and taking enormous photos with RAW support baked in. It's there if you need it, which is what you expect from a premium phone! Wireless charging

I don't fault Google for not including wireless charging in a phone with a metal body, because no one has fully implemented that feature yet and I personally prefer the metal body on the Pixel to the slippery glass on Samsung's lineup, but it's still a great feature. Google's lack of wireless charging in the last few phones has been a bummer, and something a lot of people were hoping would come back with the Pixel phones. Samsung, on the other hand, has been crushing it with wireless charging. Not just regular wireless charging, but fast wireless charging that really makes a difference. There's a big part of the wireless charging experience that is greatly improved with the newer rapid chargers, making it much easier for people to consider adopting with new phones. Waterproof body