Any way to confirm screen resolution on Android devices?

[EliteRetard]

In my recent hunt for a tablet I noticed many units that had variable screen options under the same model name. I recently looked at one tablet, a Dell Venue 10 5050, and it comes with either a 1280x800 or a 1920x1200 display. I can't figure out where/how to verify which is which. There's a "settings" page, but it provides little to no information about the tablet only the generic model name and Android version.

Slightly off topic, but why is it that a 32GB tablet only has ~22GB of total storage with 18GB available after it's first bootup? Even windows doesn't take that much space...and how the heck can they even offer "16GB" tablets, there'd literally be no space?

 

[jhu]

In the commandline type

wm size

Here's what I get on my phone (HTC One M8):

[@MSM8974AB:/]$ wm size
Physical size: 1080x1920
[@MSM8974AB:/]$

As for second question, it may be the way Android devices are partitioned. For example on my phone:

[@MSM8974AB:/]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                 912M   92K  912M   1% /dev
none                  912M   12K  912M   1% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                 912M     0  912M   0% /mnt
/dev/block/mmcblk0p45 0.9G  812M  195M  81% /system
/dev/block/mmcblk0p47  25G   17G  8.0G  68% /data
/dev/block/mmcblk0p46 378M  6.1M  372M   2% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p20 200M   44M  155M  23% /firmware/radio
/dev/block/mmcblk0p16 200M  8.8M  191M   5% /firmware/adsp
tmpfs                 912M     0  912M   0% /storage
/dev/fuse              25G   17G  8.0G  68% /storage/emulated
/dev/fuse              15G  6.4G  8.3G  44% /storage/6434-6436
tmpfs                 912M     0  912M   0% /storage/self
[@MSM8974AB:/]$

There's a lot of partitions. This phone has 32GB storage, but only 25GB is available for use (/dev/block/mmcblk0p47 mounted at /data). The drive has 47 partitions! I'm not quite sure why Android needs so many.

 

[EliteRetard]

I've never used android before, how do I get a command line?

 

[jhu]

I've never used android before, how do I get a command line?

You can go to the Play store and look up "Terminal emulator for Android". Then download that one.

 

[EliteRetard]

Thank you, I'll give that a try next chance I get.

 

[dawheat]

Could also download any number of utility apps like:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.finalwire.aida64&hl=en

 

[holden j caufield]

cpuz or hwinfo download from the play store will give all that info