In recent tests of touchscreen accuracy and sensitivity, the iPhone came out ahead against the likes of HTC's Droid Eris, Google's Nexus One, and even better than the Motorola Droid, according to AppleInsider.

The results were published by MOTO labs (no relation to Motorola), who note that their company "has years of experience developing products that use capacitive touch, and we've had the opportunity to test many of the latest devices.  Our conclusion: All touchscreens are not created equal."

In the test to demonstrate, MOTO applied finger pressure across the screen using a drawing app.  Accurate performance is due to a variety of sources according to the company, such as a combination of component quality, design and software integration.

During the test, the iPhone passed with straight, unbroken lines, with the only loss in sensitivity coming at the extreme edges on the phone.  The Droid Eris, Nexus One and Droid all had issues with accuracy.

"On inferior touchscreens, it's basically impossible to draw straight lines," MOTO reported.  "Instead, the lines look jagged or zig-zag, no matter how slowly you go, because the sensor size is too big, the touch-sampling rate is too low, and/or the algorithms that convert gestures into images are too non-linear to faithfully represent user inputs."

A user commented on their results saying, "accuracy does matter, as anyone who has used a Droid vs an iPhone can tell you.  It is much easier to accurately touch small HTML links on the iPhone than the Droid without zooming in, as one example.  One can definitely feel the difference in everyday use in the greater accuracy the iPhone has over other touchscreen phones."

So for the MacLifers out there that have used other touchscreen phones in addition to the iPhone, would you agree?  How does the iPhone stack up against the others?