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It'd be much better if this test was done in low light. The tiny sensors in iphones work fine when there's plenty of light around. The real test is how well they do when the you aren't sitting in the sun.

Indeed, I found the oil-painting effect really rough on certain year iphones in low light/when using one of the zoom lenses.

Only iPhone 4 sticks out, 1 through 17 are all fine.

And it sort of reach a plateau where for normal consumer it doesn't matter much other than zoom. Which is important to a certain extend.

I wish there is some tech in the pipeline, that in the next 5 - 10 years we could get decent pictures quality without the huge bump.

The iPhone 1 doesn't look THAT bad to me. Also I wonder if its worth 13.6 thousand ($13,600) in phone upgrades over the years?