Since smartphones have limited screen real estate, that can test users' patience with mobile ads.
Fresh downloads bear a "New" sash and take up a bit more screen real estate.
More screen real estate and more dynamic ads could spell immediate benefits for advertisers...
How do you boost screen real estate on a smartphone without increasing the device's footprint significantly?
Users may tire of advertisements, particularly on their pocket-size smartphones where screen real estate is limited.
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Not sure how we feel about that just yet -- it certainly would require some extra screen real estate.
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The problem is that the new iPhone won't really give you much more screen real estate than the old one.
Worse, some airports insist on placing a "frame" around your Web browser window with airport-related ads, limiting valuable screen real estate.
Touchscreens are very good at two things: Making a product seem futuristic, and making the most of limited screen real estate.
They can just feel the things that they... the menu choices that they have, and it also doesn't take screen real estate.
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This is basically a miniature version of the S Note app, which takes up less than half of the screen real estate.
The focus with Sensus is to provide its users with unique touch input combinations that avoid taking up precious screen real estate.
And for the first time, the mobile device had enough computing power and screen real estate to do something interesting with the sensor data.
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The display on offer has an average 1366 x 768 resolution, but the larger screen real estate means users get a full size keyboard.
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Unfortunately, users of HTC's latest smartphones will need to contend with a non-functional settings button, which is an unnecessary eyesore that hogs screen real estate.
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The 29-inch screen offers ample screen real estate, a 4-Screen Split feature and 100 percent sRGB color space expression to provide better multitasking and multimedia capabilities.
It appears the operator opted to maximize screen real estate while still keeping to the most compact size possible all in the name of customer convenience.
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The gap between the bezel and the screen content is significantly reduced so consumers can get more screen real estate without increasing the size of the TV.
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When viewing web pages and working through our Gmail inbox, we often felt the need to zoom in, as default text size seemed dwarfed by the laptop's ample screen real estate.
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Again, you're looking at a heavier machine -- 6.05 pounds in this case -- but the extra screen real estate and larger six-cell battery may make it worth it for some.
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That said, its pebble-like form factor nearly got buried in our hands and it was difficult to see even the most trivial of apps, thanks to the vastly limited screen real estate.
Its dedicated GPU certainly outpaces the integrated graphics its competitors cling to, though it trades in a little screen real estate and visual fidelity for the privilege of calling itself a gaming rig.
In contrast, BlackBerry's bread and butter is the smartphone, and so much attention was clearly paid on delivering a user interface that could cram key information on the limited screen real estate without disrupting other apps.
Doubling your screen real estate is a great way of getting the most out of the information that your computer's giving you without having to switch back and forth between pages on a smaller, single-screen setup.
The player also doesn't make the most of potential screen real estate, due to the three large buttons and Philips logo taking up roughly a quarter of the its face -- an odd choice, given the GoGear's touchscreen.
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