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Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK View Post
Yes, but for that to work you need a portrait on-screen keyboard at the OS level. That is the biggest concern for me, that it does not have all the needed support in the OS to make portrait support in applications easy. Just being able to ask the OS if you are in portrait or landscape mode is NOT enough, you need common portrait UI elements so that you keep UI consistency in portrait mode between applications.
Another example is the dashboard. Currently it doesn't "support" portrait mode. If you have an app in portrait mode open and call up the dashboard you run into problems. As of now the portrait app is briefly displayed in portrait (with only half of it visible) and is then rotated to landscape. Might become a slow process with GUI-heavy applications.