Seriously? This is a normal effect of using a digital camera to take a screen shot of a screen! It is known as moiré.
From wiki's page on moiré:
Sorry to disappoint you, but, there is no such thing as cross-hatch gate.
The red fringing around the icon definitely isn't moire, though the cross hatch may be.
Me, I'm not on a crusade against all pentile, but at 450ppi, that does leave the strange situation of two of three colour channels being at the resolving power of the 8, not the 8 Plus, making that last the sharpest iPhone still.
We'll have to wait on production testing, but with diamond matrix pentile being known and 450ppi being known, I can't see how it'll be sharper than the 400PPI Plus that doesn't share subpixels.
I don't understand the complaints.
Prior to iPhone X - why doesn't Apple use OLED, its the future.
iPhone X - why is Apple using OLED, its crap compared to what they have now.
I've not heard one person complain about the samsung S8's screens, I'm sure if I google it, I can find someone complaining but my point is that its a gorgeous screen and apple is embracing the future, errr ummm present, since OLED is has been used for some time. The iPhone X's DPI and resolution are so high, I think complaints about a pentile matrix being used is unfounded and misplaced, especially since people haven't even been able to buy the phone yet.
First off, different groups of people can say different things...The "first the internet said X, then they said Y" thing, it's almost like the internet is a lot of individual minds.
Second, the GS8/Note8 have higher PPIs than the iPhone X at 500something, at 450PPI and two colour channels resolving 2/3rds of that, the X will likely be less sharp than the Plus, while the Note 8 still ends up on top through more sheer resolution.
On my 750P iPhone 7 I can easily see jagged edges without trying, so I was hoping the X would at least be Plus sharpness which is much better, but the X seems to be nearer the base 7/8 in end sharpness to a human.
