Is the Iphone the best phone? For me right now it's OK, but appears to not have the same DPI as other android upper end phones.
better touch, not tough with the wife...
I had a Rumor before it wore out (loved that phone) the phone that was the cheapest slide-out keyboard (i wanted the slide-out)offered by our provider was the Motorola 4g. I got that and I liked it pretty well and became hooked on the iheart for my talkies but it in no way stayed connected as well as my husbands iphone.
Then, not long after I got my droid phone it slipped out of my pocket while jogging with my dog—it shattered. My husband said no more of that junk and bought me the iphone like his. I am now an iphone fan now but I STILL favor the slide-out keyboard to the touchscreen keypad. It’s just a personal preference.
Above a certain level which is around 350 pixels per inch, the human eye cannot discern any difference at all. . . none. You simply cannot see the pixels. That is the level of retinal resolution at the distance one would hold a phone to view it. Anything above that is merely advertising hype to claim bragging rights.
Above that limit, the companies claiming it are only adding overhead to the phone to move those pixels around, changing colors, and consuming power, eating battery life, and processor time, and graphics resources to handle the often doubled pixels and color space (for no added benefit). In fact, those huge, high resolution screens often stutter and skip on streaming replay of video.
There is even a new phone that's been announced claiming 4K resolution (which is really only 3820 horizontal x 2880 vertical pixels and not really 4K across). . . in a 6 inch phone! Talk about extreme overkill!
The ORIGINAL iPad had more pixels than a 60" 1080P big screen HDTV. . . in just 9.7 inches. . . and that was not even the Retina iPad! That's how ridiculous this resolution hype is getting.
What IS important beyond pixels per inch beyond the retina point is how true to life are the color gamut being presented on the screen. The AMOLED screens on the Android phones use supersaturated color gamuts to make their screens look super-bright, but the gamuts are WRONG and not true to life. Apple uses correct color gamuts so that photography is true to life, not supersaturated. Nokia Lumia does the same thing as Apple. . . that's why their phones get rave reviews as well (it helps they use Zeiss lenses) and Apple also uses Sapphire lenses made to a similar quality.