Thread: When we will start writing in vertical position :(
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2010-03-28 , 14:03
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Originally Posted by festivalnut View Post
i'm still struggling to understand why people would be so opposed to it being an option, no-one will force you to text in portrait if you dont want to. call the n900 what you will, phone, pda, pocket-top (if that catches on i want credit! :P ) mini pc, i want it to do all it can do, why tell me it shouldn't just because you don't need that feature?
i knew it didn't support mms when i bought it, yet now thanks to fmms i can receive mms - i'm a happy bunny! but before fmms was released did the same people gnash their teeth and say it coluldn't wouldn't and shouldn't happen?
I've not seen anyone actively opoosed to text in portriat at all. The effort expended has been to explain why landsape was chosen as a default. Ideally portrait as well would be good but if you have a hardware keyboard and only had portrait so couldn't use it that too would be odd.

I'm sure if the demand is there and someone inspires a developer to become interested then sms in portrait will be made available but in the meantime there are more important things for Nokia developers to work on where community developers can't.

If people really want portrait SMS then why not post a request or brainstorm? Think ghrough what you would like, post the entry clearly and explain when people ask for clarification. If you can persuade a developer that it is worth their time then I am sure they will pick it up and it will happen. Maybe even Nokia will decide to use it as a starting point. Posting entries on a talk thread however accomplishes nothing worthwhile.