Android apps were smaller so more could fit on a screen.
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Eight tiles fit on one screen.
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The main screen in the app went through 7 or 8 major changes to make it simple enough to fit everything on one screen.
"My face cannot fit on the television screen, " the 63-year-old former matinee idol moans.
The benefit of such a high resolution, of course, is that you can fit more information on screen, and it's more than a little reminiscent of Apple's Retina display.
Our only real complaint about the layout is that you can't easily adjust the font size in order to fit more updates on the screen.
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Instead of kidding yourself that a particularly nice get-up on the screen will fit, you can look at a virtual representation of the clothes on your body via a Web cam.
The entire playing experience is far more compact than a PC MOBA, which in turn allows the whole map to fit easily on the on-screen mini-map, making for simpler navigation.
My guess: the smaller font size means Facebook can fit more posts that appear on one screen in the news feed.
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The app essentially acts as a content hub for news, crawling the Web for top stories in key subjects and presenting them on the iPhone in summarized form, to fit a 4.5 inch screen.
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The Mini-pad might fit better into your pocket or into the hands of a child, but it is harder to read on its smaller screen.
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