Why do you all scream for it? Can someone tell me the real purpose for this feature? I find it irelevant.
It's mainly for people who can't seem to get themselves out of bed in the morning. They'd like the screen to be locked to vertical so they can still see the screen properly when their head is still on the pillow. Some people don't accept the obvious workaround of simply getting out of bed.
There are situations where you want to lock the phone into a portrait orientation. Laying in bed is one of them, another is if you want to lie the phone on a "flat" surface that has enough slope to change the orientation, such as tray tables on planes and trains.
Everybody uses their phones differently, and it baffles me how many people are opposed to key features like orientation lock and notification center.
Hardly a deal breaker but I am one of these people and I use orientation lock on my iphone for the reasons above. I am waiting for AT&T to get some dang stock in so I can get a Lumia 920! Staying in bed on the weekends is fun The Surface RT has orientation lock so I am surprised they didn't include this.
this is a small feature - just like Xbox video. Yes, windows phone is designed for people who hold their phone in a specific way, never want to cloud sync their music, never watch Xbox video, never use exchange ActiveSync that requires storage card to be secured, never connect to EAP TLS secures WiFi, never connect to VPN.....Why do you all scream for it? Can someone tell me the real purpose for this feature? I find it irelevant.
this feature is not at all important for pathetic show offs... but its a basic and the most important feature for an original hardcore mobile user..