Finally, there is Wall the lurking suitor of beauty in landscape, cityscape, interior, and still-life.
In landscape mode they are good HD video viewers and game controllers (room for two thumbs).
The books come in landscape format only (wide, not tall) and you get just one paper option.
Some may notice clean, white ropes that stand out in this lived-in landscape.
When these books are read with the iPad held in landscape (horizontally), visuals take up large portions of the screen.
The Surface Pro has about the same footprint as the iPad with the Logitech keyboard attached, either in landscape or portrait mode.
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Fortunately, at least, the case can be folded in such a way that you can prop the tablet up (in landscape mode).
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Furthermore, the application leverages the Windows Phone unique horizontal scroll option allowing for smooth navigation across content traditionally better viewed in landscape mode.
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The express mail program that is supplied with the device is minimal and provides a limited usable screen size for reading mail in landscape mode.
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Applications may also switch to a tablet style UI in landscape, but this is not as important since they will more often be used in portrait.
The homescreen itself only functions in landscape mode, and doesn't re-orient when you flip the phone sideways (though we don't know why you'd ever use it that way).
Some titles, however, may only be readable in landscape view.
Any length of time in landscape orientation can be tiring.
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The volume rocker and micro-HDMI socket sit on the upper left side (assuming you're holding the thing in landscape), with a microSD slot located further down on that left edge.
That said, that level of responsiveness becomes a pain in Landscape mode, where we repeatedly found ourselves accidentally exiting out of Netflix into Bing just like with those other Focuses.
We'd like to see a setting to disable face detection (it's always on) and a fix for the gallery, which is stuck in landscape when accessed from within the shooter.
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The capacitive buttons' labels are not painted on and actually rotate with the screen, so that they can be either in landscape or portrait mode, whatever your wishes (and physical position).
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It's a nuisance that becomes much more pronounced when you're using it in portrait mode, but thankfully this is a tablet primarily made to be held in landscape or used with the dock.
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The thought of repeatedly drawing lines across the screen may sound daunting (especially in landscape mode), but in all seriousness, we urge you to give it a go, even just for normal typing.
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Here's where it gets weird: the kickstand on the back of the dock is removable, and can be inserted in one of two ways (again, to support the tablet in landscape or portrait mode).
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If you're wondering where the S2110's speakers are in all of this, they're placed rather discreetly on either edge of the tablet -- mere slits located just atop where your hands would rest in landscape.
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Our biggest problem with the basic viewing is the 16:9 screen ratio, which renders regular sites with extra room on each side in landscape, but crops in on the sides of sites when held vertically.
Looking at the phone in landscape mode, you have one on your right, containing a gallery of the photographs you've taken, and one on your left filled out with camera options and adjustments you can make.
Also, we noticed that the speakers didn't produce as much of a stereo effect as we would've preferred whilst watching a movie, since both speakers are located on the same side of the phone in landscape mode.
Kickstand design is clever but maybe not so smart: Microsoft incorporated a swing out angled support piece that allows the tablet to stand in landscape mode and then it folds back into the body when not in use.
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Whereas the Note 10.1 positioned its speakers on the front face (read: out of the way of consumers' hands), the Note 8.0's smaller size and portrait orientation mean users will have to be mindful about not covering the lower speaker when watching video in landscape.
Now, you can lock the orientation sensor and pretty much never encounter this issue again (we can't ever really imagine needing to read a text-based book with adjustable font sizes in landscape mode, after all), but it seemed worth mentioning given it goes unchanged since the previous version.
Be entirely alone in a desolate landscape in another country.
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