

This means a little chunk of extra screen makes the phone just less than 4mm wider, and around 2mm shorter, than the Note 4. We’ll get back to that edge, but it’s the headline part of a 5.6-inch Quad-HD+ display. The screen looks great, with the punchy contrast and sharpness that’s been a Samsung flagship mainstay for years.

Its curves are subjective and divisive my friends and colleagues have offered up reactions ranging from outright bemusement to adoration. Roland Miller has spent nearly half his life chronicling these landmarks before they are lost forever long been obsessed with space as a child, he dreamed of being an astronaut. However, just like the stylus, there’s a while before you get the knack of all the little provisions Samsung’s made to ease users into this screen size.

However, the edged screen nuzzles into my hand better and those software tweaks mentioned above give it the advantage. Galaxy Note 4 running Android 4.4 KitKat.Īnd how does Apple’s biggest phone compare to the Note Edge? Well, both remain unwieldy to grip, and the Note Edge is wider. While history has hailed the men and women who reached the cosmos, and those who helped them get there, much of the infrastructure that sent them skyward lies forgotten and dilapidated. If you look at the first entry /dev/root/ it shows 3.9G used and 3.The exploration of space stands as one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Clearing them both and using clean and autoremove freed up over a Gigabyte of space on my micro-SD card. …and some of their dependencies take up space too. If you don’t need them, these applications take up a lot of space… If you don’t want a full desktop, there is Jessie Lite too (under a Gigabyte) but, if you want a leaner card with a desktop pre-installed removing, some large packages may be a better way to go.

So, let’s have a look at which of the pre-installed packages take up a lot of space and could give us “an easy win” here. There’s an awful lot of good stuff in the default Raspbian Jessie distro these days, but you may not be using all of it on all of your Pis. If it’s getting full, or you want to store large media files, or install a large application, you may find you run out of space. There are occasions when you may want to free up some space on your (micro)-SD card.
