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What is my screensize?

Sean O'Brien February 6February 15th, 2021
What is my screensize?

What is my screen resolution?

We recently built a free tool that can give you the exact dimensions of your screensize. These numbers represent the viewport size of your current screen, which is the visible display area of your screen. This is often slightly smaller than your screen resolution. A web design viewport is defined as a rectangular area (measured in pixels) that is displayed on the screen and determines how the content is arranged and where to scroll through the text wrappers or windows to see the entire web page.

Is the viewport the same as the screen resolution?

For most devices, the resolution/size of the screen is the same as the viewport size. This is true for most desktop computers and laptops, but is almost never true for mobile devices and tablets! Many phone browsers scale web pages to a larger screen width to put them on the screen. This is sometimes called overview mode. These browsers allow the user to zoom in and out of the pages to see the bit they want to see. For example, while the screen width of a device can be 320px, the viewport can be 980px wide. In this case, a web page designed for 980px or less will fit across the entire screen. I am typically using 1000px and 690px as the main breakpoints on websites I design as that seems to cover a lot of good ground for most modern devices.

Screen resolution is not a useful indicator for browser window size.

Desktop screens have increased significantly over the last decade, but browser display screens (the visible area in the browser window) pretty much have not. A little while back, CSS-Tricks discovered that only 1% of users have full screen navigation. While only 9% of visitors to this site had a screen width of less than 1200px. Their take is that even though lots of users run big monitors these days, not all of them are viewing websites in ‘full screen resolution’, therefore the viewport size of the website is much smaller than the screen resolution of their monitor.

What is my screensize?

Where the confusion begins with screensizes and viewports is usually due to phone manufacturers misleading consumers:

For a lot of devices, the resolution specified by the manufacturer often doesn’t refer to PPI (pixels per inch) which is a better way to think about resolution. You can see this by looking at iPhone screen sizes for the past few years. The physical dimensions of the screen have hardly changed (see the CSS widths of iPhone 6 compared to iPhone X), but the resolution has increased almost 60%. So what you’re getting is a new device with the same physical size of an older, lower resolution device, but they have jammed much more PPI in to the screen. Following?

Faq Iphone 6 Resolution

Now you’ve read a little more about screen resolutions and device viewports and hopefully I have answered your what is my screensize question? There’s some more good info if you’d like to keep reading on these topics over at the Android website.

If you’d like a detailed list of different devices’ viewport sizes, pixel dimensiosn and CSS widths I’ve compiled all the info I can on this viewports list.

Phone Screen Dimensions

In today’s world, there are many devices for people to choose from, and it can be daunting if you try to place and build for the best experience on all devices. However, when designing websites and mobile devices, it’s important to be aware of the most popular phone screen sizes and resolutions so you can match your design to your screen viewers. An optimized and responsive website makes the user experience easier and ultimately more enjoyable for your audience.

Phone screen size vs. viewing area
When buying a device, both the screen size and resolution listed in the specifications are often shown. Screen sensitivity is the measurement of the screen diagonally, in inches. It should not be confused with resolution, which is the number of pixels on the screen, often shown in width by height (i.e. 1024×768). Because devices with the same screen size can have very different resolutions, developers use viewports when creating mobile-friendly pages. Viewports have smaller versions of the resolution, allowing websites to be viewed more consistently on different devices. Viewports are often more standardized and have lower resolution versions than resolutions.

While desktop and laptop monitors are horizontal resolution (higher), many mobile devices can be rotated to display websites in both horizontal and vertical (over the width) orientation. This means that designers and developers must design with these differences in mind. While desktop and laptop monitors are horizontal (over the width), many mobile devices can be rotated to display sites in both horizontal and vertical (over the width) orientation. This means that designers and developers must design with these differences in mind.

Coding for different phone screen dimensions

It would be nearly impossible for companies to design each device individually. Instead, developers often group responsive designs together:

Grouping styles into the most common sizes for phones, tablets, and desktop computers. In this case, anything larger than 7 inches is usually displayed at desktop resolution or… Use breakpoints (defined by the pixel width that the screen will adjust to fit the screen size) depending on the design and location. Sometimes a developer can combine both methods if they deem it necessary. It is recommended that you start by grouping typical device sizes together.

If you are a developer and want to create the styles needed to work with mobile or responsive styles, we have included a CSS snippet below that may help. It is important to note that these breakpoints are not fixed for all sites and should only be used as a guide to get you started.

Phone Screen Dimensions Table

What are the phone screen dimensions of popular phone and mobile devices? We’ve put together a very comprehensive list of phone screen dimensions which can help you with designing webpages for the various devices. Below is a condensed version of the list, but we provide pixel density, physical CSS and PPI (pixels per square inch).

name phys.
width
phys.
height
css
width
css
height
Amazon Kindle Fire 600 1024 600 1024
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 800 1280 480 800
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 1200 1920 800 1280
Apple iPad 1, 2 768 1024 768 1024
Apple iPad 3, 4, Air, Air2 1536 2048 768 1024
Apple iPad mini 768 1024 768 1024
Apple iPad mini 2, 3, 4 1536 2048 768 1024
Apple iPad Pro 2048 2732 1024 1366
Apple iPad Pro 9.7 1536 2048 768 1024
Apple iPhone 3 320 480 320 480
Apple iPhone 4 640 960 320 480
Apple iPhone 5 640 1136 320 568
Apple iPhone 6+, 6s+, 7+, 8+ 1080 1920 414 736
Apple iPhone 6, 6s 750 1334 375 667
Apple iPhone 7, iPhone 8 750 1334 375 667
Apple iPhone X 1125 2436 375 812
Apple iPod Touch 640 1136 320 568
Asus Nexus 7 (v1) 800 1280 604 966
Asus Nexus 7 (v2) 1080 1920 600 960
Blackberry Classic 720 720 390 390
Blackberry Leap 720 1280 390 695
Blackberry Passport 1440 1440 504 504
Blackberry Playbook 600 1024 600 1024
Blackberry Q10 720 720 346 346
Blackberry Torch 9800 360 480 360 480
Blackberry Z10 768 1280 384 640
Blackberry Z30 720 1280 360 640
Google Glass 640 360 427 240
HTC 8X 720 1280 320 480
HTC Evo 3D 540 960 360 640
HTC Nexus 9 1538 2048 768 1024
HTC One 1080 1920 360 640
Lenovo K900 1080 1920 360 640
LG G3 1440 2560 360 640
LG G4 1440 2560 360 640
LG G5 1440 2560 360 640
LG G Pad 8.3 1200 1920 600 960
LG Nexus 4 768 1280 384 640
LG Nexus 5 1080 1920 360 640
LG Optimus G 768 1280 384 640
Microsoft Lumia 620 480 800 320 480
Microsoft Lumia 830 720 1280 320 480
Microsoft Lumia 900 480 800 320 480
Microsoft Lumia 920 768 1280 320 480
Microsoft Lumia 925 768 1280 320 480
Microsoft Lumia 1020 768 1280 320 480
Microsoft Lumia 1520 1080 1920 432 768
Microsoft Surface 768 1366 768 1366
Microsoft Surface Pro 1080 1920 720 1280
Microsoft Surface Pro 2 1080 1920 720 1280
Microsoft Surface Pro 3 1440 2160 1024 1440
Motorola Nexus 6 1440 2560 412 690
Pantech Vega n°6 1080 1920 360 640
Samsung Galaxy Nexus 720 1200 360 600
Samsung Galaxy Note 800 1280 400 640
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 720 1280 360 640
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 1080 1920 360 640
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 1440 2560 360 640
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 1440 2960 360 740
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 1440 2960 360 740
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 1080 2280 360 718
Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 1080 2280 360 718
Samsung Galaxy S 480 800 320 533
Samsung Galaxy S2 480 800 320 533
Samsung Galaxy S3 720 1280 360 640
Samsung Galaxy S3 mini 480 800 320 533
Samsung Galaxy S4 1080 1920 360 640
Samsung Galaxy S4 mini 540 960 360 640
Samsung Galaxy S5 1080 1920 360 640
Samsung Galaxy S6 1440 2560 360 640
Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 edge 1440 2560 360 640
Samsung Galaxy S8 1440 2960 360 740
Samsung Galaxy S8+ 1440 2960 360 740
Samsung Galaxy S9 1440 2960 360 740
Samsung Galaxy S9+ 1440 2960 360 740
Samsung Galaxy S10 1440 3040 360 740
Samsung Galaxy S10+ 1440 3040 360 740
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10″ 800 1280 800 1280
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7″) 600 1024 600 1024
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10″ 800 1280 800 1280
Samsung Galaxy Tab (8.9″) 800 1280 800 1280
Samsung Nexus 10 1600 2560 800 1280
Sony Xperia P 540 960 360 640
Sony Xperia S 720 1280 360 640
Sony Xperia Z 1080 1920 360 640
Sony Xperia Z3 1080 1920 360 598
Xiaomi Mi 3 1080 1920 360 640
Xiaomi Mi 4 1080 1920 360 640
Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 1080 2160 393 786
ZTE Grand S 1080 1920 360 640
ZTE Open (Firefox OS) 480 720 320 480

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