Following months of leaks, the iPhone 9 has emerged as Apple's most exciting new smartphone of 2018. Unfortunately, the world’s most acclaimed iPhone insider has now revealed it contains several significant shortcomings…  

In a detailed new report obtained by 9to5Mac, famously accurate analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed the iPhone 9 (which I predict to simply be called ‘iPhone’) will actually amount to a lot less than the ‘affordable iPhone X’ hype many reports have claimed.

Apple's iPhone 9 has more compromises compared to the new iPhone X (left) and iPhone X Plus (right) than previously knownMKBHD

Breaking down Kuo’s findings highlights no less than seven significant areas where Apple will cut costs with the iPhone 9 in comparison to the premium iPhone X Plus and second generation iPhone X (sometimes called the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Plus). Let’s break them down:

Inferior Display And Resolution

Yes, it has long been known that the iPhone 9 will have an LCD display while the new iPhone X and iPhone X Plus use OLED. But Kuo states the 6.1-inch iPhone 9 will also have a very low native resolution of just 1792 x 828 pixels.

This is not only significantly worse than the iPhone X (2436 x 1125) and iPhone X Plus (2688 x 1242) but given 6-inches panels on Android phones typically have 2880 x 1440 native resolutions, the iPhone 9 is seriously off the pace for such a big phone.

Source: forbes