The airline does offer two free pieces of checked baggage, so there's no need to fight over overhead space unless you need it.

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While the feature is in beta, there's also no limit to how much storage space you use up, and there's no auto-delete function after any amount of time, so feel free to upload to your heart's content.

ENGADGET

Ridley Scott might like to say no one can hear you scream in space, but another application loaded onto the device will put that to the test by playing user-submitted shrieks and recording them with the handset's microphone as they playback.

ENGADGET

Walk into any retail location and you will see there are no shortage of signs and available space to hang signs.

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The ChargeCard purports to offer an always-with-you charger that takes up no more space than a credit card.

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Although you can change the wallpaper, for instance, there are no Android-style widgets, and you also can't populate that space with shortcuts to things like webpages or documents in progress.

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It will see the Nexus phone play videos of people screaming to test the famous Alien movie poster statement that "In space, no-one can hear you scream".

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But the most irking thing imaginable is, as Meer points out, the purgatory that is the overflow server, where sad saps who no longer fit in their home servers are placed to adventure in a much more lonely space until a spot opens up and you can be whisked off to more crowded environs.

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