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Placing the heavier components at the top and bottom of the smartphone also helps the ergonomics while using the machine, and it is comfortable to hold for extended periods, assuming you are holding it in portrait orientation.
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If you go through the standard applications that ship on a Nexus 7, in portrait orientation they not infrequently use a more phone style UI rather than tablet UI this includes the YouTube app, Play Store, Settings, etc.
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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.
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To accommodate large format paper without having to build a gargantuan machine, Brother re-designed their paper input and printing system to grab and print paper sideways rotating the input and output trays by 90 degrees so that paper is fed in landscape orientation instead of portrait as is typically the case with other printers.
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At the top of the face is a long slot into which the iPad can be placed in portrait or landscape orientation.
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The Reader Daily Edition offers portrait and landscape orientation.
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The orientation sensor automatically adjusts between portrait and landscape mode in most applications when the device is tilted, and the 2-Axis Accelerometer is great for controlling games that need simultaneous steering and acceleration.
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Ultra-portable yet powerful and packed with features the new vjay for edition takes full advantage of the phone's widescreen aspect ratio (16:9) and replicates the wow factor of the existing iPad version on a palm-sized scale thanks to a dynamic user interface that automatically adapts to portrait and landscape orientation.
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As soon as we turned the tablet into portrait mode the accelerometer adjusted the screen orientation, and when we put the Wacom stylus to the screen, our chicken scratch was immediately turned into accurate editable text.
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