Like others, I don't like
the wasted screen space - which can be eliminated but at the cost of also eliminating page numbers.
We already wrote an awfully lot about book cover fonts for different genres, so I won't
waste any screen space here.
We've seen a LOT of comments around «The Notch» over the past few weeks, from people who love the quick access to the menu to those that hate
the wasted screen space.
Not exact matches
(The ads emphasize that this is the first Hollywood feature photographed entirely with IMAX cameras, which just means they routinely
waste three stories of
screen space on the back of Robert Downey Jr.'s stand - in's head.)
Instead, you get it one
screen at a time, one piece of information at a time, plus a
space -
wasting graphic showing the car in three - quarter side view.
I have an iLiad which doesn't
waste space with a keyboard and has a wacom tablet over the
screen for accurate drawing.
I wish I could actually crop out the margins so that I could effectively increase the font size and not be forced to incorporate all the
wasted white
space on
screen.
To achieve this smaller design, Amazon has primarily trimmed the superfluous,
wasted space around the edges, so the device is now dominated by its 6 - inch
screen.
Many of the software - related complaints and bugs from the Aura HD still exist on the H2O, mainly all the
wasted space on the
screen with the header and footer that Kobo uses.
I have seen more than one column of yours that takes Kobo to task regarding the
space wasted on the
screen.
I have to wonder why they don't delve a little more into 7 ″ devices for serious readers (not forgetting to fix the
wasted space issue that is still there and kind of defeating the point of bigger
screens) or start releasing color
screens which are starting to become a bit overdue by now.
In that respect they're more like Apple now where there is no real competition for the iPad, which dominates the large form factor market, and is in fact the only 4:3 aspect ratio device at that size, which is the only ratio that works for two page layout books without
wasting enormous amounts of
screen space.
Subheadings may happen to fall at the bottom of a
screen, unless you apply a page break to them, but a page break may
waste a lot of white
space on the prior
screen.
Wow... fugly... This'll be pulled from the shelves close to release, as people realize what a
waste of
screen space it is when they attempt to watch their first movie on it.
Because of the way Kobo's software formats ebooks, there's about 3/8» of dead
space at the top for a bar to display the title of the book and 1/2» of
wasted space at the bottom of the
screen to display the page numbers, and depending on the particular book's formatting and font choice it can be up to 2» at the bottom.
Moves aren't arbitrary, and input isn't
wasted — as far as the user is concerned, this behaves a lot like a «flat» interface might, just with
screen transitions replaced by movements in a 3D
space.
Kobo's ebook readers have settings for customizing line
spacing and margins, but there are annoying limitations at times, especially when it comes to all the
wasted space Kobo insists on using at the top and bottom of the
screen to display the title of the ebook and the page numbers.
The same major complaint as with the Kobo Mini and Kobo Glo: There's too much
wasted space at the bottom and the top of the
screen when reading, which negates many of the benefits of the larger
screen.
Now that we have thinner monitor panels, putting your
screen in the corner is basically turning that corner into
wasted space.
I hate
wasted space on a
screen.
On the popular Nexus 7, Twitter is an example of a smartphone app that actually works fairly well — in portrait mode, you can see many more tweets on
screen at the same time and none of the
space really feels all that
wasted.
On the welcome
screen you can just select next to be asked how much of the unallocated
space you want to use, we recommend you leave the default which will use all the
space you set aside if you alter this it may result in some
space going to
waste.
It looks clean and simple, and there's not much
wasted space here, with slim bezels surrounding the
screen.
And there's
wasted space: an even larger
screen could have been squeezed into the same housing.
With a chin above and below the
screen and the 5.5 - inch display, there's a fair amount of
wasted space around the
screen.
The device itself is also way too big with a lot of
wasted space given the tiny
screen, and the click wheel is annoyingly loud.
And with tiny, 4.4 - millimeter bezels on each side of the
screen, the MateBook X's display
wastes less
space than the MacBook.
So I don't have to go to app drawer to open either of them and also I don't have to
waste space on my home
screen for an app I use less often.
Additionally, the iPhone X will feature an almost completely bezel-less 5.8 - inch display, and since it will have less
wasted space around the sides of the
screen, size-wise, it will sit between the standard iPhone 8 and the larger iPhone 8 Plus.
But that doesn't mean it's a huge phone — its class - leading 83.2 %
screen - to - body ratio
wastes no
space, so the front of the device is virtually all
screen.
Don't want a curved
screen that
wastes space, distorts pictures and makes it hard to do anything at the corners on!
Space is utilized smartly, nothing is
wasted, with slim bezels flanking the
screen, an edge - to - edge keyboard and a large precision trackpad perfectly central.
The phone still features a respectable
screen to bezel ratio, but with no hardware on the front, we can understand why some feel this is
wasted space.
At the same time, the difference between the 4 - inch Lumia 520 and this phone is hard to notice with menu
screens looking inefficient, with a
waste of
space.
To add insult to injury, the Fitbit logo even sits below the main display, which I find irritating whenever I look at it, as it highlights the
wasted space — you don't see the Apple logo sitting at the bottom of the
screen on the Apple Watch.
Fitbit has included some of the thickest bezels I've seen on a smartwatch, and there's a lot of
wasted space here; the
screen could have been much bigger, or the device could have been much smaller if more thought had been put in here.
The Start
screen now showcased up to six rows of tiles instead of five, reducing the
wasted space issue on larger displays.
There is a weather information widget on the notification
screen,
wastes some
space as most of us prefer that to be on one of the home
screens, giving the most
screen real estate on notification panel for the notifications.
This is a fairly decent device in the hand, it's not exactly thin, nor chunky and while it is a larger device at 5.5 - inches, the 72 %
screen to device percentage means that there isn't too much
space wasted.
Huawei has been keen to emphasise the 69 %
screen - to - body ratio of the Honor 3C, which essentially means that the bezels are slim and there isn't a criminal amount of
wasted space on the front of the handset.
That's a bulky,
space -
wasting problem for some, one addressed by ultra short - throw projectors — that is, projectors that can be mounted very closely to the projection
screen.
The thoughts still don't change, because for a 5.5 - inch
screen size, the Xperia C3 was large already but the device has a lot of
wasted space around the display to make it wider and taller.
A lot of
space is
wasted on the black bars fixed around the
screen.
Some, such as the Files app,
waste large portions of the
screen with unnecessary white
space, but others feel more considered and restrained.
In short, Google Now Launcher will feel stock and get you that all - important Google Now page on the left, but the icons won't look like Google's and if you have a larger
screen, you might feel like the home
screen grid leaves a lot of
wasted space.
Huawei is to be applauded for packing a 1280 x 720 4.5 - inch
screen into such a small phone, and no
space is
wasted.
The live tiles made great use of all the dead
space on the home
screen that, to this day, is still
wasted on iOS and Android.
That's right, and you can roll the projection
screen, which is also ceiling - mounted, up and down and get it out of the way and you don't have to
waste space storing a TV.