Poll: Do you want landscape mode for home screen?

[Vicky Krishnatrai]

I guess it would be easy to use mobile device in landscape mode. I would love to have this option.

 

[Ushae]

Yes definitely, WP is always several many steps behind, it makes perfect sense for phablets at least.

 

[hotphil]

Yes definitely, WP is always several many steps behind, it makes perfect sense for phablets at least.

Behind? Just because something else has a feature, doesn't mean it's useful, sensible or desirable elsewhere.

 

[Ma Rio]

Yes, definitely yes.
I'm waiting for it all this time.

 

[TechFreak1]

Is it me or there is no poll? lol.

It's a yes from me so this can be avoided:

Touch Pro 7 -



In the touch pro 2 this used to happen, the home screen and everything else would change orientation when the physical keyboard was used.



With landscape home screens, we should see a resurgence of landscape qwerty phones. The keyboard on the touch pro 2 was the best I ever used on a landscape qwerty, in the candy bar form factory blackberry keyboard was pretty darn good then closely followed by the E61 keyboard imo.

Windows phone needs to have more form factors than just the plain slab candy bar. With windows phone 7 they were on the right track just the landscape support was completely woeful (check out Adam Lein reviews for the Touch Pro 7 on pocket now)

 

[Krystianpants]

Yes but when enabled it will take a separate background image for portrait and for landscape instead of just using the same image.

 

[vish2801]

As we have already seen that 8 inch devices will be having phone UI, it would be necessary to have a landscape mode for such devices. I wonder if MS would allow smaller screen devices having landscape mode.

 

[WinCoffee]

I would love that! I usually use my phone in landscape if it's possible.
I hope MS could make everything in landscape mode too. Nothing bad about having options! ^^

 

[Torcher Death]

Yes, I would like to have this as an option... But I wonder how the background image would adapt.

 

[Vicky Krishnatrai]

It would work like windows 8.1 tablet. And background will work like andorid background. But it will decrease the qualtiy of background image but there must be an option for seprate background for portrait and landscape mode.

 

[Praxius]

Regarding the background, I'll be fine if it just stayed locked in portrait. It's the tiles and apps that matter to me.

 

[tangledW]

No.

 

[Jonnie LasVegas]

Yes.

 

[hotphil]

No.

Yes.

You two must never meet, you know that, right?
It'll end the universe.

 

[stenson625]

Yes in capital note!

 

[peacock93]

I'm a yes for sure! Maybe we can get Windows Central to do one of their polls and see how it turns out. I'll send Daniel a message on Twitter asking him to do it.

 

[Prakash Jebaz]

Yes of we do want it....

 

[k72]

I would like to have landscape. Ideally, the tiles would stay put, but just rotate around, and then scroll sideways like on the PC, although I don't know how that would go for the rectangle tiles. If I am using apps in landscape (videos, maps, Kindle is a big one) and I just want to do a quick check of something else, it would be nice to not have to crank my neck over to look at my phone's portrait homescreen while I've got the phone set up in landscape. It's not the end of the world, but it sure would add a lot of convenience (and after reading the hamburger options thread I see that obviously convenience is even more important than I thought).

 

[neo158]

Not really. The trend seems to be to move away from physical keyboards on phones, the BlackBerry Classic being the exception, so why would we need it?

 

[ramyZgHR]

I am fine with that option, tough I can't see some point of it.