Thread: When we will start writing in vertical position :(
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2010-03-28 , 21:04
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
The most natural portrait oriented format that I can think of are.. wait for it...

Books and letters.

Landscape is no more natural for reading, unless you're talking about reading subtitles on a widescreen movie. What they're raving about, was mostly due to the pixel density : screen size that made reading things in portrait less desirable. We don't have this problem on N900. Even the iPhone/Touch with lower pixel density doesn't have this issue.
Books are portrait for binding purposes: checked with a publishing colleague on this one to be sure. Also reading tends not to be interactive with the medium and mobile internet devices are. The use case I quoted was for the web as that was the point raised in the posting being answered.

Recent studies on the iPhone and iTouch show that the majority of usage time is in landscape so that might not be the best example to pick. Our own company usage studies actually showed that greater than 63% of such users found the menus being portrait orientated annoying.