samsung note 2 and note 3 screen bucket

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What screen bucket do the Samsung Note 2 and Note 3 report? "Normal" or "Large"?

Here are stats on the two phones:

Model   Dimensions            Density     Density Bucket    DP Dimensions
note2   720px x 1280px        265dpi      hdpi              480dp x 853dp
note3   1080px x 1920px       386dpi      xhdpi             540dp x 960dp

This post from Diane Hackborn:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-tools-for-managing-screen-sizes.html

...says that "large" screens are at least 480dp x 640dp, so both these phones would qualify. What I'd like to know is whether they actually report themselves as having "large" screens or if they self-identify as having "normal" screens.

Unfortunately I don't own either phone so I can't test it out myself.

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 21 '14 at 18:12

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Samsung Galaxy Note 2:

Samsung Galaxy Note 3:

edited Jan 21 '14 at 18:12

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answered Jan 21 '14 at 18:06

Dimmerg

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Thanks man. That's strange- those logical densities are wrong, per Google's specs. I guess that's why they can get away with reporting a screen size of "normal"? Per Google, hdpi is supposed to be ~240 ppi and xhdpi is supposed to be ~320 ppi. – jph Jan 21 '14 at 19:12
I don't know why. It's Samsung and they do what they want) Developers can use different directories of devices parameters to check entire device. Please, accept answer if it helped you. – Dimmerg Jan 21 '14 at 19:24
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@Dimmerg where did you get such detailed data, please? – Marcel Bro Dec 22 '14 at 12:16
@anoniim, it's from internal statistics in my Android games – Dimmerg Jan 08 '15 at 21:16

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