Comments on: screen sizes and analytics

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:00:32 +0000

Hi Barbara, I just bumped into this post on mobile screen sizes. You might find the information there useful to your initiative. Tsahi

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:58:48 +0000

Absolutely! SOME platforms will let you display different information upon rotate, SOME do not.

By: Tom Hume

Tom Hume — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:26:00 +0000

Let me throw in another complication: handsets whose screen can display in either portrait or landscape. In this case, looking up screen alone won’t help you choose the right size for your content.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:46:37 +0000

Jo,

When researching for this post, I did go over to DeviceAtlas to see if the physical dimensions were included. Either they are not, or the page is organized in a way that I couldn’t find it. I looked for diagonal measurement or mm tall/wide. Is the physical size there?

I did find the “edit this data”, which I think will go a long way to making popular phones’ data more accurate.

(I picked a device likely to have a large amount of data available: the iPhone)

By: Jo Rabin

Jo Rabin — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:03:36 +0000

Nice post Barbara.

On the MMA Banner Sizes – these were determined a couple of years ago by taking some modal values of screen sizes in the market at the time, leaving some room for chrome, and making the sizes divisible. I think there’s scope for an XXL as you say.

Also thought folks would be interested in dotMobi’s DeviceAtlas. With the latest release people can now log in and contribute their values of screen size and other properties of devices. Also as part of DeviceAtlas there’s now ta-da.mobi which you connect to using your phone and run through some simple tests to determine device properties, including figuring out screen size.

HTH
Jo