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Comment by fredley | Hacker News Reader

I like how the iOS screenshots are tiny compared to the Android ones. Making up for much?

I think they're actually right, relatively speaking -- the iPhone 4/4S's resolution is 960x640, while the Galaxy Nexus's is 1280x720. (Alternatively, the Galaxy Nexus has a 4.65" screen and the iPhone has a 3.5" screen.) Making the screenshots the same size would add confusion to UI elements' proper scaling.

Yes, there are _some_ models that have larger screens. Just because there are models with larger screens doesn't mean "Android has larger screens." (From article: "Remember that your app will run on a wide variety of different screen sizes.")

To the GP's point, the author is taking advantage of hardware variance and picking larger images.

The _only_ model running Android 4.0 has a larger screen.

> the author is taking advantage of hardware variance and picking larger images.

I think an even more honest way to look at it is that the author uses the Galaxy Neuxs as the Android reference device in all examples, including the screenshots.

This can be defended as a part of Google's effort to try to lead the way for other Android makers with their Nexus series and is probably not motivated by any comparison to iPhone.

The Galaxy Nexus has a resolution of 1280x720, the 4S has a resolution of 960x640. I would say the screenshots are accurate to scale.

I think that's just the respective screen resolutions. iPhone is 960x640, Nexus is 720x1280.

I believe it's just recognizing resolution differences.

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