Thread: Portrait mode use cases
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2009-09-04 , 06:14
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#191
Originally Posted by elimoon8 View Post
I know it does simplify things quite a bit, but I can just see myself trying to check a weather widget and realizing that I left it on the 2nd home screen in landscape orientation.

Side comment about possibly why people want portrait mode:
I think it's just because it feels more like paper. We grew up using paper in portrait orientation. I know, for one, when I want to read something and not interact a lot (like just reading the news/online articles), I would prefer to hold the device in portrait mode. Note that even most websites are designed like sheets of paper. Logic follows, that more of the content could be seen in a portrait orientation.

Also, I'm sorry it makes things harder on you guys, and I can't exactly explain why, but portrait mode "feels" right for some things (for me at least).
Well, you could specify that it's a free layout per orientation, but the same contents for each of the pages. So that if your weather is on the first page, it is there on both orientations: it could just be in a different position in portrait and in landscape.

And yes, I agree and I think we all agree that ... I hope that it doesn't feel that we would be disputing that there wouldn't be uses to portrait mode, that it wouldn't be a good feature to have. One hand usage etc. are all fair and true. So no need to convince anyone that it wouldn't be useful. It would be useful.

... Remember, this is not step 5.
 

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