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Since the other components of these phones are essentially the same size, or close to the same size, in all four tested phones—except for the iPhone 7 with its new haptic engine, which none of the others have—the only component that can take up more space IS THE BATTERY, and each of the competitors' phones has a large amount of extra volume to put in a much larger battery!

That is what is known as a measurable and demonstrable FACT! It's not obfuscating, it's checkable, it's confirmable, and it's repeatable. That's called science, Dan. It's good engineering. There. I've schooled YOU.

So did we just decide to skip my facts in post 45? Since, you know, my compact phone that's about the same specs as your iPhone - The iPhone 7 is 65,887 cubic millimeters in volume, and 138 grams in weight, 326 ppi. My phone is 73,470 mm^3, 138g, and 323 ppi. And somehow my phone has a 2700 mAh battery. Oh, wait, that's right. You have your amazing Taptic engine that you're so proud of. That provides haptic feedback - which I turn completely off because it's one of the most annoying default settings on a phone. Also, every phone has a vibrator in it, what makes you think the new one in the iPhones is so much bigger than in the other phones? I would guess they're all about the same size - which means your claims of losing extra battery volume because of that are completely bogus.

Note the fragmentation Android developers have to contend with just in these three models with pixels per inch of 554, 565, and 576!

That's not a big deal, you can have the phone auto-scale whatever the program/window is to 100% of the screen. Most mobile developers do that, not very much is defined by pixel number. That's been considered bad coding ever since SVGA was supplanted by XGA. Also, you're quite the one to talk considering your iPhone has a completely non-mainstream resolution of 750x1334!

The iPhone 7 is 65,887 cubic millimeters in volume, and 138 grams in weight, 326 ppi. My phone is 73,470 mm^3, 138g, and 323 ppi. And somehow my phone has a 2700 mAh battery.

The fact remains, Svartalfiar, that your phone is still 11.5% larger than the iPhone with essentially the same volume taken by the electronic boards. That means the 11.5% extra volume can be dedicated to extra battery capacity. If the battery took 15% of the space available inside the Xperia compared to the same 15% in the iPhone, then the battery can be 50% larger. because that extra space is 7,583 mm^3, all of which can be added to the already existing battery size in your phone! Ergo, it can easily be 2700 mAh in capacity because there is that much extra space available inside your phone.

Also, you're quite the one to talk considering your iPhone has a completely non-mainstream resolution of 750x1334!

No, there is very little fragmentation that iOS developers have to worry about. There are a very limited number of screen resolutions they have to program their screens to fit, unlike Android. It is much easier. Sorry, it is not as easy as auto-scaling to different size screens because that leads to ugly appearances and touch buttons that don't work properly.