Poll: What applications would you like to see FIRST to receive portrait mode ?
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What applications would you like to see FIRST to receive portrait mode ?

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#11
What about web browsers? Or are you grouping that into the "that's up to an individual developers" category? Which I sorta agree on though MicroB is "official" so yeah.
 

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Messaging + T9.
 
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
First as in 'first batch' (not native English speaker, sorry for the confusion ). Nokia likely won't be releasing them one by one but in SSU-s. I felt forcing people to pick a single most important app would be wrong, and polls don't let you order or spread a number of points accross multiple entries... That's why I went for multiple choices and a pretty please explained in the first post

Aaah. In that case, "first batch" for me would definitely include:

Screen saver (the only one of these I voted for, and I don't know if I can change my vote)
Dashboard
Media Player

And maybe (in the first batch):
Contacts
Calendar (day view, event view, task list)


While I would like to have T9, Qwerty, Messaging, and Email in the first batch, I can wait til the 2nd batch.


I just realized that "Browser" isn't on the list... the fennec news might make that moot (or maybe I missed/forgot the news for this already being done), but I definitely think the built-in browser should be in the first batch.
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#14
Just because it will mess the widgets on the home screen is never a valid reason for the lack of portrait mode.

To put it simply

"portrait mode >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> wide widgets"
 
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T9?! Whu?

If the iPhone can do a full portrait OSK, so can Maemo!

And yeah, the music player really needs to be able to do portrait.
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
T9?! Whu?
Just listing propositions from the original thread. T9 had I believe two reasons, one is that it uses less screen estate, and the second that with one handed use a full qwerty might be awkward as you'd need to move your thumb around quite a bit.
 

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I second media player. When I think of one-handed tasks, this is near the top. But I'd put the interface first, because it would be annoying to have to use two hands to get to a one-handed app.

As mentioned in the other portrait thread, a solution for this is simply to have a different desktop for portrait mode. Just like the landscaped mode, it'll be customized by the user with the tasks that user is likely to use when on-the-go.

}8^O~
 
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#18
Nokia Maps/Navigation would be also very useful in portrait mode for one handed walking navigation.
 

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All camera apps.
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All camera apps.
Didn't you get the memo?
They think you just need to change the way you hold the device to reach the multiple triggers..
 

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