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	ysss	2010-03-28 , 21:51
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Originally Posted by Fargus

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.

Can you quote this recent study?

Personally, I've always found portrait orientation to be more intuitive for most reading materials found on the web:

- They're mostly presented in thin columns, which tend to make the article longer (vertically). This translates to oversized letters and less rows displayed per page when viewed in landscape mode on a modern mobile browser (which can zoom to a <div>'s width), which means you'll have to scroll far more often than when you read this in portrait mode. (assuming average+ reading speed).

The main advantage of using the iPhone in landscape mode, to me, is the wide virtual keyboard.... or when viewing videos, and (more rarely) the occasional sites which use very small typeset to be displayed crisp enough on iPhone's screen resolution. But, the N900 shouldn't have this problem.

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