The smartphone market is seeing a rapid growth as new devices are being released every now and then. Apart from the advanced specifications, the manufacturers are increasing the screen size of smartphones.
The average screen size of smartphones ranges from 3.5 inches to 4.5 inches. The top smartphones having large screens are: Samsung Galaxy Note, HTC Sensation XL, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, HTC Vivid, Samsung Galaxy S2, HTC Rezound, Motorola Droid RAZR, Motorola Droid Bionic, Apple iPhone 4S, and Nokia Lumia 800.
Samsung Galaxy Note
In September, Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Note with a huge 5.3-inch display, which is claimed to be the world's largest smartphone screen. Samsung has made the Galaxy Note, which is a smartphone/tablet hybrid, a revolutionary product with a screen that is larger than a screen on a typical smartphone but smaller than that on a typical tablet.
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Galaxy Note is adorned with a 1.4GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, Mali-400MP GPU, Exynos chipset with 1 GB RAM, and 5.3-inch Super AMOLED high-definition display that has 1280-by-800-pixel resolution with 285 ppi pixel density. The phone has a 146.9 x 83 x 9.7 mm dimension and weighs 178 grams.
Galaxy Note comes with 8-megapixel autofocus LED flash rear-facing camera with 1080p video capture and a 2-megapixel front-facing secondary camera for video chat. Additional features include 4G LTE, NFC, Adobe Flash 10.1 support, TV-out (via MHL A/V link) and have a standard Li-ion battery of 2500 mAh.
In addition, the phone runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread with the Samsung "S Pen" interface, which is said to bring a selection of applications designed specifically for the included stylus. Samsung recently confirmed the smartphone/tablet hybrid would be upgradeable to Google Inc.'s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich early next year. Ice Cream Sandwich is a combination of Gingerbread and Honeycomb in one unit.
HTC Sensation XL
HTC released its Sensation XL with Beats Audio in the UK market Oct. 6. The HTC smartphone, which has a huge 4.7-inch screen, is not expected to be offered from any of the carriers of United States, but consumers can get unlocked version of the phone and make it compatible with the AT&T network.
HTC Sensation XL, which runs on Google Inc.'s Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread OS, is adorned with 1.5 GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset, 4.7-inch S-LCD capacitive display, 768 MB of RAM, 16 GB of internal memory, 8-megapixel rear-facing dual-LED flash camera with 720p video capture and 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls.
Sensation XL touts a 4.7-inch S-LCD Gorilla glass touch screen with qHD 800 x 480 pixels resolution at about 199 ppi pixel density. It comes with 132.5 x 70.7 x 9.9 mm dimension and weighs 162.5 grams. Sensation XL comes with a standard Li-ion 1600 mAh battery with 6.5 hours on 3G networks, up to 11.5 hours on 2G networks (GSM) and a standby time of up to 360 hours.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus
