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As a hobbiest photographer, this measurebating/pixel peeping is very reminiscent of the MP wars in Digital Cameras and dSLRs.

Photos from mobile phones will be most often viewed on a service (FB, Instagram, Whatsapp) which will almost always do some sort of resizing and recompression which would render that +/- 5 spread between all the top cell phones meaningless.

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To counter your point, consider the fact that 4K video looks better when downsampled to 1080p than video captured directly in 1080p: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIf9h2Gkm_U -- the mechanism is different for other cases (social media sharing of images, for example), but the principle is the same.

This doesn't decrease the value of the better camera. What if I print some of my photos later? What if I zoom in and then send that section on whatsapp?

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