iPhone X has a smaller screen than that of 8 iPhone Plus, according to some complex calculations made to demonstrate the fact that a larger diagonal does not necessarily mean more information displayed everywhere. According to these calculations, the iPhone X has a screen with a diagonal of 5.8 inches, which is taller and narrower than that of the iPhone 8 Plus, displaying a little more information on the height, but less on the width.
iPhone X has a Super Retina Display screen with a diagonal of 5.8 inches and a resolution of 2436 x 1125 pixels, the largest ever implemented in an iPhone screen. Despite this, the cutout on the scary part of the screen substantially reduces the space in which information is displayed, the Apple company assuming the fact that users will have a bad user experience under certain conditions, but what can we do?
The iPhone X has a strange aspect ratio of 2.17:1, compared to the 16:9 of the iPhone 8 Plus, and the image below shows very well how the two screens compare. You can easily see how the iPhone X screen looks superimposed on the iPhone 8 Plus, the Apple company seems to have thought of the phone in the same way as Samsung did with the series Samsung Galaxy S8, the width giving way to the height for phones.
The iPhone X has a SMALLER screen than the iPhone 8 Plus
The iPhone X had this aspect presented immediately after the Apple conference the other day and few people gave it the proper attention, but it is good to know what Apple is doing. Practically, the diagonal of a screen is no longer a good enough unit of measure to tell us how big the information display surface is on a phone's screen, and here the iPhone X follows in the footsteps of the Samsung Galaxy S8 in terms of controversies.
The iPhone X has, in total, 296774 display points on the screen, while the iPhone 8 Plus has 304704 points, the difference between the two being only 2.6%, so the lowest. Practically, users will not feel a big difference between the total display sizes of information on iPhone X and iPhone 8 Plus, but in some applications and web pages you may see that there is still a difference compared to what you used in the past .
The iPhone X with its slightly smaller screen than the iPhone 8 Plus will have problems, mainly when it comes to displaying images, video clips, or games. Of course, the developers will have to modify their applications so that the interface looks normal on the iPhone X screen as well, but this will require time and a lot of patience from users willing to use Apple's new phone.
