Difference in music quality between iPod Touch 4G and iPhone 4s?

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Hey guys. I am starting to think about changing to an iPhone 4s but still looking at my options (another being WP7). I have an HTC HD2 currently and got quite fed up of the sound quality of music through it as well as a few strange behavioural symptoms when the battery drops to around 40% (it started ringing the last person in my call list whilst I was listening to music!).

So.... I started using my 8GB iPod Touch as my music player of choice when out and about. Trouble is it doesn't hold a great deal of music (I like lossless) and I am now missing calls because I have my IEMs plugged into the Touch rather than my phone.

This leads me onto a couple of posts I have seen on other forums that the sound quality of music is inferior on the iPhone in comparison to the iPod Touch. Is this true? I was pleasantly surprised by the music quality through my iPod Touch coming from my HD2 and investing in the remote control lead for my Sennheiser IE8s really enhanced the experience for me too.

Does anyone have experience of owning both and being able to compare? Also interested in the sound quality comparison with WP7 phones out there for those that have used both.
 
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Actually, the iPhone gets a pretty good write-up when it comes to audio quality, though no phone is particularly brilliant for it (the last really good one was the original Galaxy S with the Wolfson DAC).

Best audio quality in business

If you want to have the best possible audio output on your cell phone get an iPhone. The rule has always been as simple as that and the iPhone 4S is no exception to it. The new iOS smartphone did great in both the headphones off and headphones on parts of our test, achieving some pretty great scores and remaining impressively loud all the time.

In the first trial (connected to an active external amplifier), the iPhone 4S performed marvelously, but that's hardly a surprise. Even less talented smartphone musicians can get good scores here, so we couldn't expected anything less than perfect from the iPod descendant.

What really puts the iPhone 4S in a class of its own (not counting its predecessors, of course) is its headphones-on performance. The minor jump in stereo crosstalk is all that our lab equipment was able to detect as the resistance to the line-out port increased. The rest of the readings remained virtually unchanged, rounding up a really impressive performance.
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http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_4s-review-665p5.php

(Don't know why you made two threads though)
 
Before anyone hammers me for double threading (I am sure mods will make up their mind), my reason for doing it is to get as much feedback as possible before I make the decision on my next phone and generally iPhone threads are posted here and not in "Mobile phones" but my thread also asks for input from WP7 users. If I had only posted here I wouldn't get their input.
 
I would be pretty surprised if you could tell the difference between lossless and, say, 320kbps - and probably 256 - when playing music through any phone.
 
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