Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges (cnet.com)

A lawsuit filed Friday is accusing Apple of falsely advertised the screen sizes and pixel counts of the displays in its iPhone X, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max devices. The two plaintiffs, who filed the suit in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, are seeking class action status. CNET reports: The suit alleges that Apple lied about the screen sizes by counting non-screen areas like the notch and corners. So the new line of iPhones aren't "all screen" as marketed, according to the 55-page complaint. For example, iPhone X's screen size is supposed to be 5.8 inches, but the plaintiffs measured that it's "only about 5.6875 inches." The plaintiffs also allege that the iPhone X series phones have lower screen resolution than advertised. iPhone X is supposed to have a resolution of 2436x1125 pixels, but the product doesn't contain true pixels with red, green and blue subpixels in each pixel, according to the complaint. iPhone X allegedly only has two subpixels per pixel, which is less than advertised, the complaint said. The lawsuit also alleges iPhone 8 Plus has a higher-quality screen than iPhone X.

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The iPhone X screen is a joke

[Anonymous Coward]

The iPhone X screen is a bad joke, that unfortunately has led to all these copy-cats. Something cannot be full screen if parts of the screen are unusable. Sure you can put something besides the notches and and it is rounded corners, but it is not part of the screen, as you cannot use it for anything. Same for the bottom - apps are not supposed to use the lower part of the screen because there is a slider thing. Try the simplest thing, try a full screen video, does it actually use your "full screen"? Quite far from it. And now they are rounding the corners of iPads too! Why???
I would say this lawsuit is silly, I mean you know about the notch when buying the devices, however I hadn't thought about the diagonal aspect. If they advertise a 5.8" diagonal, but that would only be the case if there were no rounded corners, it would be some sort of false advertising.

Re:Not Guilty

[Registered Coward v2]

Cue the Apple apologists...

Full disclosure: I use Apple products. I like them because they meet my needs.

Off by .1125 inches because you don't like to count the notch?Depends on how you measure it. Complaining about pixel design. Do the pixel counts match Apple's based on teh design? This smells like someone looking for an easy payday. Apple does some stupid shit, such as the battery saving throttling without giving customers a chance to decide if they wanted to do that; but I find this lawsuit to be BS, and would no matter who made the phone. What's next? Complaining the Pixel / iPhone / (insert phone name here) doesn't really have 64/128/256 GBs of storage?