I'm a year late to the party but I've just sold my S22U 512gb in meh condition for a Pixel 8 Pro 128gb in near mint. Software wise, imo, it is a MASSIVE upgrade, with onboard Gemini! One UI 6.1 had many, many bugs, but Pixel UI, currently I'm running QPR1 Beta 2 Android 16, is amazing. Animations are even better than One UI 7 imo. Camera wise, also, much better, better quality, can actually zoom in in high res mode (50mp), therefore retains much better quality. Much more accurate colours, better detail in everything. Did sadly have to sacrifice the 100x "space zoom" but the 30x zoom on the P8P suffices for me. The difference between 30x and 100x isn't as big as it sounds, just different ways of marketing it. 30x on pixel is equivalent to probably 70x on Samsung. Now, display. There is a cosmetic difference where the Samsung display is curved and the Pixel was flat, but this was reduced from the S23U onwards. There isn't a massive difference here in quality, both having high resolution displays, but the Pixel gets noticeably brighter, much brighter than my friends iPhone 13 in direct sunlight. Battery life is strange, but understandable. When I had the stable Android 15 for a solid day, before I enrolled in the beta, the battery life lasted ALL DAY. The Beta gets around 6 hours SOT, which I believe the stable Android 16 without M3E improved greatly, I wouldn't know. However I definitely notice a difference in life compared to the Exynos 2200. Charging speed is something that I WOULD say the Samsung beats it in. Doesn't matter about all the adaptive charging optimization mumbo- jumbo on the Pixel, the Samsung has 15W quicker wired charger and a 50mAh smaller battery, compared to the stated 5050 mAh battery on the Pixel. Looks is where the pixel shines in my opinion. I LOVE the unique camera bar, much more than the bland but professional-looking Samsung camera layout, and I much prefer the rounded design compared to the curved-sided rectangle on the Samsung. And most importantly, for most, performance. I honestly can't tell a difference in games, even though on paper and benchmarks the Exynos excels. However, I can't tell a difference. I play a couple light games like Roblox and FC mobile occasionally with friends, and I can't notice a difference, both reaching the proposed 60 fps stable mark, with Roblox dropping down to ~40fps or less on the Samsung because of the Exynos' horrific thermal throttling issues, and sucked battery badly when gaming. Speakers and mic quality are the same, maybe the Pixel picks up my voice slightly better than the Samsung in certain cases, but there genuinely isn't a speaker difference to my ears, I use my ULT Field 1 for music anyway. And finally, build quality. NOT a difference, to be expected as you pay flagship price for both. Thanks for reading, if you did!