I'm testing out the Dell Streak and comparing it to some other devices - the G2 and the "Mytouch 4g" - all of which are I think are 800×480 WVGA.
The streak has a 5" screen
The other two are 3.7" and 3.8" screens.
When I look at the youtube app on each - 9 search results will show up on the screen in portrait orientation on the streak, only 6 on the other devices. And similarly I can see that just not the same information will show up on the Google maps screens despite there being the same number of pixels available.
Is there some way to make the smaller screens show that same amount of data?
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Which is more important for a PPC screen : size or resolution ?
I know both are important, but would you prefer a 3.5" QVGA screen or a 2.8" VGA screen ?
Which is more convenient for internet browsing ? office applications ? games ?
Does a 2.8" VGA screen hold as much data as a 3.5" QVGA screen ?
Resolution and screen size are independent. QVGA means 320x240 pixels and VGA means 640x480 pixels. VGA will always show more data, but on a smaller screen it gets harder to read if you have bad eyes. What WM does by default with the larger resolutions though is display the same amount but sharper.
Hello,
I just got a 22" Android "Tablet" with a native Full HD (1920x1080) resolution Screen in my hands. It is a ViewSonic VSD220.
However, it seems that the device does not take full advantage of the resolution by default, it seems to interpolate up the resolution in a 1:2 ratio.
e. g. a Website with a width of approx 980Pixels takes the full screen width and it looks too much upscaled.
So anything looks too big on that large tablet - it may be good for the 10" Standard size.
Is there a way to let the Android device use its native resolution?
What's the ideal wallpaper resolution for the Nexus 5. By ideal, I mean a resolution that maps pixel for pixel to the screen pixels. I have seen a couple of sources that suggest matching the physical screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 but that cannot be correct. For both stock and Nova launchers, the image scrolls side to side as I move from one screen to the next. Therefore it must be something like 1920x1080+n where 'n' is the number of pixels that the wallpaper moves when moving from screen to screen times the number of screens-1.
Or does the home screen vary the distance scrolled sideways according to the width available for a given wallpaper and the number of screens?.
Thanks!
(New N5 owner here )
1920x1920 would mean that your phone would be full screen, pixel by pixel in both landscape and portrait but it would not scroll. I cant speak for all launchers but with Nova, anything over 1080 width (in portrait) will be divided by how many screens in that direction for scrolling.
So for example, if I have a really wide picture, but only 3 screens, the scrolling effect of the wallpaper will be a large difference. The more screens I add, the smaller that difference will become.
For me, I want a big choice of wallpapers without editing so, I go for as close a match to the 1920 height that I can get without going under.. so on interfacelift I go by 16:9, 3840x2160 - sure I know I'm 140 over on the height... If I could be bothered, I'd bulk trim them
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/downloads/date/widescreen_16:9/3840x2160/
Some fix for the exaggerated lateral margins that it makes in the videos to the screens of YouTube, Netflix, etc.? You can zoom and fill the screen but the video in its original format, has an excessive crop.
In other Xiaomi devices this does not happen.
dimequetedire said:
Some fix for the exaggerated lateral margins that it makes in the videos to the screens of YouTube, Netflix, etc.? You can zoom and fill the screen but the video in its original format, has an excessive crop.
In other Xiaomi devices this does not happen.
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First of all, I am pretty sure you posted in the wrong category. This should got to Questions & Answers.
Did you ever play GameBoy Color games on the GameBoy Advance?
If yes, you noticed, that all the games had black margins, except you were resizing the image with the L/R button.
The reason for that is that what is being displayed does not match the resolution of the screen. So if your video is 480*240p then it will have margins on a Full HD or 2k display.
Same goes for any device, like your phone. Previous phones did not have margins, because they probably had a screen resolution of precisely 1920x1080p. So most videos will fit perfectly, because that is a very common resolution for videos.
Now the POCO has a higher resolution: 1080 x 2400, which is not perfectly standard. Your video is guaranteed to not have this resolution, as can be seen from the screenshot. So of course there will be black margins. The only way to "remove" the margins would be to resize your video or get an older phone with a resolution of exactly Full HD.
Conclusively, that's not an issue with your phone or whatever. It's an issue regarding different resolutions, which happens to EVERY device on earth that has a display measured in pixels.
Although they are related it's more of the aspect ratio thing than resolution. Common aspect ratio for content on platforms OP has mentioned is 16:9 where our poco has 20:9 screen. 16:9 was the most popular on mobile devices before the "bezel less" era and still is the most popular for TV.
Try to do the pinch outwards gesture to stretch the video to full screen?
Use the Video Toolbox?
Hello,
Resolution Checker is one of the many apps aBetterAndroid will release for Android.
What is Resolution Checker? Simple to use and very intuitive, it will show you the resolution of the display but that's not all! There will be 3 types of resolutions:
Bars Resolution - the resolution of the navigation + status bars (vertical pixels)
Resolution - the resolution of your display minus the bars resolution
Real Resolution - the resolution you see in your device's specifications
You should use this application if you want to check that your screen is not a fake one and has the correct resolution/ you're a developer/ you're just curious.
Thank you.
Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abetterandroid.resolutionchecker