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2009-09-02 , 19:32
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Originally Posted by kanishou View Post
I think what some people are missing is, that few devices are completely landscape and portrait. But most devices are meant to be used in portrait mode, and have more or less complete coverage of landscape orientation. The N900 is meant to be used in landscape orientation, and I believe that is the right decision.
Don't know about most devices or not. Or which devices? I don't use my laptop in portrait mode. Nokia has released phones using both modes such as Nokia Communicator, Nokia N95.

Most applications and websites are optimized for landscape mode. This has traditionally been an issue for mobile phones, and part of reason WAP browser was very different from desktop browser. However, now the two are growing more towards each other (because mobile phones support HTML, JS, Flash, have more raw power, colour, etc etc).

On portrait devices you'll still need 1) to grab the metadata and present it in their own way 2) seperate layout. This even more different than from desktop applications. So while Linux desktop applications won't run perfect on Nokia N900 they'll run better on this mobile phone than any other. Still, given the different hardware compared to desktop, a different UI and interaction with UI is necessary.
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