Thread: Portrait mode on the N900 coming in PR1.2 (plus email and conversations)
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2010-05-10 , 12:55
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#67
Originally Posted by teh View Post
Sigh, how many people need to be reminded of this one fact?

THE NOKIA N900 IS NOT DESIGNED AS A MOBILE PHONE, BUT AN INTERNET TABLET LIKE THE N770/N800/N810, BUT WITH MOBILE PHONE / SKYPE CALLING FEATURES

So the option of portrait as standard isn't going to happen. Hence why the phone application is the only application to rotate as standard.

Mods: Feel free to shout at me, but i'm getting sick to the back teeth of coming on this forum to read the same old stuff because people aren't doing research, and then expect everyone to bow at their feet for their stupid mistakes. Ta.
I know of the history and I've followed its progress over the year. But I don't get why this excuse is being used again and again.

If they market the thing in the same segment as N97, androids and iphone, then they better measure up to the same standards as the others. If they want to make use of the Internet Tablet excus^H^H^Hplanation, then by all means make sure that N900 is always clearly mentioned in its own market segment. Not go back and forth between 'internet tablet' and 'smartphone' whenever convenient (ie: marketshare calculation and whatnot).

Android, iPhone and Maemo all evolved from *nix roots in one way or another. Own up to the choices made.
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