Thread: n900 Portrait Mode
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NokTokDaddy is offline NokTokDaddy
2010-04-15 , 05:39
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Originally Posted by kennibal View Post
Even if we have already thought this as an Internet tablet, its main objective, it would be more powerful if it will allow you having your phone be usable in portrait mode, same as at its landscape orientation. That will be a major revision, but that won't hurt since it is a tablet pc and a phone utilizing one of the powerful processors for its size.
With respect, I don't buy into this 'It's an Internet Tablet' philosophy - do we all carry an N900 in one pocket and a phone in the other - I don't think so...

We don't need to make too many excuses for this PHONE as it is.

Most interaction (i.e. physical input/screentaps) is easier in Landscape. I ran a lowly 6210 Navigator last year - allways browsed in landscape and longed for a landscape querty. A lot of phones are going landscape because of the advantages this format offers - they are not all 'Internet Tablets'

Courtesy of 'Shortcutd' I can access the phone app with one long push on the camera button. What I could do with from that point on is for the Dialling Pad to open (as opposed to the Phone app main screen).

If there was a 'search contacts' button on the Dialling Pad and the alphanumeric function was functional I could search for contacts by name. Not a big ask, I hope?

Yes, you can do that in landscape via the slide-out keypad, but that requires two hands and there are occasions when I need to work one-handed - and that dictates portait.