Landscape Start Screen Coming soon?

[unstoppablekem]

Well, I was on CrackBerry, then an ad popped up from Verizon, showed some Windows Phone stuff, and some of the icons were the wrong ones, like always (idk why carriers do that), then it showed the Ativ Odyssey start screen in landscape. The tiles also look weird. You think this might be in the next version of Windows Phone and Verizon accidentally put it on that ad, crap advertisement, or both? Comment below and take the poll.

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[Laura Knotek]

I'll go with bad advertising, like that image of an iPhone with the Windows Phone tiles that's been circulating on the web.

 

[unstoppablekem]

I'll go with bad advertising, like that image of an iPhone with the Windows Phone tiles that's been circulating on the web.

Never seen that image.

But speaking of images, your signature is so much nicer than mowned (like mine). And it says we can't use signature images, but idk because everyone has them.

 

[tungha]

this is not something new, it's already popped up on the engadget before

 

[squire777]

I don't really see the point of being able to view the start screen in landscape mode. When you pull your phone out and look at it to start with it's always going to be in portrait mode.

 

[tungha]

I don't really see the point of being able to view the start screen in landscape mode. When you pull your phone out and look at it to start with it's always going to be in portrait mode.

and if it happens, we'll suppose to have the lock orientation feature, I cannot imagine how inconvenient it is when laying in my bed

 

[unstoppablekem]

this is not something new, it's already popped up on the engadget before

Well sorry, I didn't know about it.

 

[vakama94]

I don't really see the point of being able to view the start screen in landscape mode. When you pull your phone out and look at it to start with it's always going to be in portrait mode.

But what if, let's say, I'm looking at a web page in landscape and then I want to return to the start screen but I don't want to move my hand to put the phone on portrait. I guess someone could see that as convenient.


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[GoodThings2Life]

I still look at web sites in Portrait mode. I hate doing anything other than video/pictures/games in Landscape.

I get annoyed when I'm laying in bed and my text messages go landscape.

 

[Tobias Ernst]

If you want your phone to stay in portrait mode in bed, you'd use the new screen orientation lock feature in GDR 3, so that would prevent the home screen from rotating (if it were able to to so).

I find myself using my Symbian phone's home screen in landscape mode when it is mounted in my car. I use Car Mode and Nokia Here maps for navigation, obviously, in landscape mode, because that's the better orientation for car mounting. Then e.g. when I get into a traffic jam and nothing is happening on the road I leave the phone in the mount but press the home button to get to the start screen, have a quick look at new incoming mail etc.That's OK and safe, but obviously, while driving, I would not want to remove my phone from the mount and hold it in my hands just to have it in portrait mode so as to be able to use the homescreen ...

To me, the home screen not being available in landscape mode in Windows Phone is a big showstopper that makes we want to stay with Symbian as long as possible.

Frankly, I cannot understand why users keep discussing about the usefulness of a feature. ANY feature that was there in other, older mobile OSes was useful to SOMEONE, and SOMEONE has grown attached to it for sure and will miss it in WP if it is not there. The goal should be to make Windows Phone as feature complete as possible. (If you want a minimalistic feature set, you'd be using iOS anyway ...).