Away from all those "breakthrough" cellphones boasting half an inch of extra screen space.
Tablet apps, both AndroidOS and iOS, are enhanced for those display types, taking advantage of more screen space.
In 2013 he will share screen space with Leonardo DiCaprio in the latest movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
The command center will utilize more than a mile of Ethernet cable and more than 150 square feet of networked screen space.
At the same time, Conducent sells the on-screen space to such advertisers as Amazon, an online bookstore, and Egghead, a software vendor.
Moving right along, the D7000 series arrives as a threesome, offering buyers the choice of 46-, 55- or 60-inches of diagonal screen space.
You can download as many as you like but they all bunch themselves up at the top of your browser and take up valuable screen space.
We imagine this will only come in handy if you prefer using most of your front screen space for widgets, but it's a nice touch regardless.
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It makes little business sense for a Hong Kong cinema owner to gamble precious screen space on an Asian movie for an audience that may not exist.
Having all that extra real-estate (the DS-1500 gives you a full 2048x768 pixels of screen space to work with) definitely makes it easier to get get things done.
One of the 3, 452 enhancements Meizu implemented is the "Smart Bar, " where Meizu has somehow merged the app's bottom menu bar and the system's virtual soft key bar for the sake of screen space and intuitiveness.
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If you've ever used a dual-monitor setup for your desktop, you'll understand the massive productivity boost such a feature could bring to your smartphone -- especially given the amount of screen space the Note II offers.
Although it technically has a larger display than its 4.8-inch predecessor, the 5-inch GS4 is actually narrower (69.8mm wide, versus 70.6mm on the GS3) because it only adds vertical screen space and has skinnier bezels on each side.
When we were looking at 16 colors and blobs and things on the screen--Space Invaders--there was no concern about videogame behavior carrying over to the real world.
Having a wall divider or screen to define your office space is no different than having a cubicle in a regular office building.
Bigger picture, it also reinforces the notion that we are beginning to see real consolidation in the second screen app and social TV space, ultimately a good thing.
The new, sleek IdeaCentre A600 all-in-one features a 21.5-inch frameless screen, and provides discerning space-conscious and style-conscious users a modern design that measures only one inch at its slimmest point, making it the slimmest all-in-one in the industry2.
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From what we've seen, there appears to be plenty of space on the screen to show incoming calls, read emails with eight lines of text at a time, view appointment details, select songs and control volume, and, of course, see the current time.
It features Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which enables easy access to your favorite apps and brings resizable widgets that automatically resizes to the space available on the screen.
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The most common belief is that Apple will rely on a roughly 4- or 4.1-inch, 1, 136 x 640 display that would run legacy titles at their native resolution while supplying more space for the home screen, media and optimized apps.
The Q10's touch screen is significantly smaller, to give space for the physical keyboard, and looks similar to the recent BlackBerry Bold models.
But Apple faces unprecedented competition in the space and may argue that screen technology that would have made a smaller iPad impractical before is now available.
With the 4.3 inch Super LCD screen taking up the majority of the space on the front of the smartphone, the designers have been working hard to create a unique look to the back side and the edges of the 8X.
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And since the Apple screen is now taller but no wider, the usability of the extra space is very much in the to-be-determined category (the screen shape is more vertical or oblong depending on how you are holding the phone, closer to a widescreen TV than before).
Processing power is the main thing, but the added space at the top of the screen is nothing to scoff at, either.
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.
Further down the simple menu, there's a switch for toggling either original size import or just native screen resolution import, depending on how much space you want to fill up on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
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Of course, when we actually saw Open webOS 1.0 it was already stretching to fill the space of an HP TouchSmart computer screen (project architect Steve Winston specifically mentioned hotel kiosks as a possibility, a market LG is all over) so it makes sense that larger displays have been a target.
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In addition, the new GIGA one SONIC's LCD screen clearly displays the amount of hard drive disc space available as well as the status of every download.
The keyboard eats up space that could be devoted to a bigger screen, of course.
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