Homepod firmware spilling all the beans
Digging further into the HomePod firmware code, Steven Troughton-Smith has seemingly confirmed that iPhone 8 will boast a three-times resolution screen at 2,436 by 1,125 pixels.
“It has more screen in height, but it can’t fit the same kinds of data onscreen as iPhone 7 Plus can,” he wrote on Twitter. The numbers match up nicely with what KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo originally predicted.
The numbers convert to about 521 pixels per inch, up from the iPhone 7 Plus’s 5.5-inch full HD display at 1,920 by 1,080 pixels at 400 pixels per inch. The 2,436 by 1,125 pixel resolution applies to the handset’s so-called active display are—that is, the canvas dedicated to apps.
There should also be an additional Touch Bar-like area at the bottom of the display to host a virtual Home button along with persistent shortcuts to apps in the Dock. Taken together, the active display area and the bottom area for shortcuts should make for a total of 5.8 inches diagonally at 2,800 by 1,242 pixels.
HomePod firmware confirms iPhone 8 has 5.15″ active display area at 2,436 by 1,125 pixels