While we've all wanted rotation lock since the beginning of WPs life, the implementation is poor and just too strict. You can lock it to either be in portrait, or left/right landscape. With regards to the landscape option, why would anyone bother with that? WPs landscape support has always been terrible despite proper Windows 8 being used on widescreen displays. I avoid landscape in most apps because just rotating a portrait simply doesn't work if you use a large font for a pivot so you end up with a large amount of text on screen and very little else. Now most of us are likely to use the lock with portrait so we can lay in bed and read stuff etc but without a quick toggle, it becomes a jarring experience for when you do need to to view content in landscape such as taking a photograph or viewing photos as these are currently stay locked.
The settings within Windows Phone 8 is also getting out of hand. It's a real mess and despite using WP7 since Feb 2011, I still have no idea where a majority of things are. Anything relating to the screen should all be condensed into a single page rather than 1 option for multiple pages.
The settings within Windows Phone 8 is also getting out of hand. It's a real mess and despite using WP7 since Feb 2011, I still have no idea where a majority of things are. Anything relating to the screen should all be condensed into a single page rather than 1 option for multiple pages.