Technology has advanced much more so these days that just about any smart phone with good memory space and good Internet connectivity would do.
Where this question as regarding the kind of device one uses would become very important is when there is passion to delve further into programmable tech of which mostly functions and regards the use case of IPs and location tags, as well as other factors that might include for coding and for developer options.

Due to reasons of affordability, many of us go for Android OS and we have seen how these android devices has evolved to even do almost better than the IOS apple devices, not withstanding the sleek and adaptive nature of the apple IOS.