iPhone X Screen Size Class Action Gets Trimmed

A proposed iPhone X class action has been trimmed by a federal judge who tossed claims that Apple misrepresented its screen size.

After dumping the claims, however, U.S. District Court Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. gave the plaintiffs leave to amend the complaint.

The iPhone X class action lawsuit claimed that Apple had overstated the screen size of its next-to-latest version of the popular smartphone.

According to the plaintiffs, the tech company failed to account for the curved edges of the device and the speaker notch at the top.

The plaintiffs in the iPhone X class action lawsuit, residents of New York and California, sought to represent a nationwide Class of consumers who had purchased the device. However, the federal judge ruled against this.

“Deferring consideration of the standing analysis until the class certification stage would permit plaintiffs, who have no connection to the forty-nine other jurisdictions, to embark on lengthy nationwide discovery,” the judge stated.

However, Judge Gilliam allowed claims regarding pixel counts to continue in the iPhone X class action.

Pixels, short for “Picture Element,” are areas of illumination on a screen. The more pixels a screen has, the sharper and clearer the image will be.

According to the iPhone X pixel class action lawsuit, not only did Apple misrepresent the number of pixels, it also included so-called false pixels, or pixels that do not provide a full range of color.

Apple argued that the pixel class action allegation should be dismissed. The tech company contended that they made no representations regarding “subpixels.” However, the judge clarified that the plaintiffs are not taking issue with subpixels but rather the number of “true pixels.”

“Because the pixel count is not an accurate count of the number of true pixels, Plaintiffs allege that Defendant’s representation deceives reasonable consumers into believing that the screens ‘provide the same clarity as would RGB screens of the advertised resolution,'” the court document states.

Whether or not a reasonable consumer could be misled by Apple’s pixel count marketing, the judge found that the plaintiffs feasibly pled that it is possible. However, the judge stated that it wouldn’t be an issue to discuss until the summary judgement portion of litigation.

While the claim of screen size misrepresentation and proposed nationwide Class were dismissed, the plaintiffs will have the opportunity to amend the iPhone X pixel class action lawsuit.

Did you buy and iPhone X? Are you disappointed with the screen size? Tell us about it in the comments below!

Plaintiffs and the proposed Class are represented by C.K. Lee of Lee Litigation Group PLLC.

The iPhone X Pixel Class Action Lawsuit is Sponchiado, et al. v. Apple Inc., Case No. 5:18-cv-07533-NC, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

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