الفيلم اللي على التليفون احسن من الفيلم اللي على الكمبيوتر.

اللي is the Egyptian Arabic relative word, usually meaning that, which, or who depending on context.

In this sentence, it links each film to extra information:

• الفيلم اللي على التليفون = the film that is on the phone
• الفيلم اللي على الكمبيوتر = the film that is on the computer

A very useful thing for learners: in Egyptian Arabic, اللي is used for all genders and numbers, so you do not have to memorize several different relative pronouns the way you do in Standard Arabic.

Because the sentence talks about two different films, and each one is being described:

• the film on the phone
• the film on the computer

So each noun phrase needs its own relative clause:

• الفيلم اللي على التليفون
• الفيلم اللي على الكمبيوتر

English does the same thing logically, even if learners do not always notice it.

In Arabic, the present-tense verb to be is usually not stated.

So Arabic often says something that looks like:

• the film on the phone better than the film on the computer

but it means:

• the film on the phone is better than the film on the computer

This is completely normal in Egyptian Arabic and in Standard Arabic too.

If you wanted past or future, then forms of كان and related words can appear.

احسن means better here, and من means than.

So the pattern is:

• X احسن من Y = X is better than Y

In this sentence:

• الفيلم اللي على التليفون احسن من الفيلم اللي على الكمبيوتر

This is one of the most common ways to make comparisons in Egyptian Arabic.

A learner should also know that أحسن is often written informally as احسن with no hamza.

Yes, but the feel is a little different.

• احسن من is very common and natural in Egyptian everyday speech.
• أفضل من is correct, but it sounds more formal or more like Standard Arabic.

So if you want natural spoken Egyptian, احسن من is the safer choice.

Because على often means on in the sense of something being on a device, on a screen, or available through it.

So:

• على التليفون = on the phone
• على الكمبيوتر = on the computer

This is very natural in Egyptian Arabic.

Depending on context, it could mean:

• stored on the device
• showing on the device
• watched on the device

The sentence itself does not force only one of those meanings.

In Egyptian Arabic, ال is usually pronounced el-, but its pronunciation changes with sun letters.

Here is how it works in this sentence:

• الفيلم → el-film
  ف is a moon letter, so the l sound stays.

• التليفون → et-telefōn
  ت is a sun letter, so the l sound assimilates and you hear t.

• الكمبيوتر → el-kombyūter
  ك is a moon letter, so the l sound stays.

• اللي is usually pronounced elli

So a natural pronunciation is close to:

• el-film elli ʿala t-telefōn aḥsan min el-film elli ʿala l-kombyūter

Yes, very often you can.

A natural shorter version is:

• الفيلم اللي على التليفون احسن من اللي على الكمبيوتر

That means the same thing, because the listener can understand that اللي على الكمبيوتر refers to the film on the computer.

The version with both الفيلم words is also correct. It is just a bit more explicit and clear.

It is Egyptian Arabic in style.

Some clues:

• اللي is the normal Egyptian relative word.
• التليفون is a very common everyday Egyptian word for telephone/phone.
• احسن من is extremely common in spoken Egyptian.

A more Standard Arabic version might use:

• الذي instead of اللي
• أفضل من instead of احسن من
• sometimes الهاتف instead of التليفون

But the sentence you have is exactly the kind of wording a learner will hear in real Egyptian speech.

In careful spelling, many people would write it as أحسن.

In casual writing, especially online or in fast texting, hamzas are often omitted, so احسن is very common.

For a learner, the important point is:

• أحسن
• احسن

both represent the same word in everyday use.

In Egyptian Arabic, usually no. That is one reason learners like it.

The same اللي can be used with:

• masculine nouns
• feminine nouns
• singular nouns
• plural nouns

So you do not need a separate form the way Standard Arabic has forms like الذي, التي, الذين, and so on.

That makes Egyptian relative clauses much simpler to build.

The sentence is built like this:

• [noun + relative clause] + comparative + من + [noun + relative clause]

So here:

• الفيلم اللي على التليفون
  first noun phrase

• احسن من
  comparative phrase meaning better than

• الفيلم اللي على الكمبيوتر
  second noun phrase

This is a very common Egyptian pattern, and you can reuse it with many other nouns:

• الكتاب اللي هنا احسن من الكتاب اللي هناك
• الصورة اللي على الموبايل اوضح من الصورة اللي على الكمبيوتر

So this sentence is a great model to learn from.