But few works, since Francis Picabia's depiction of Marie Laurencin as an imaginary machine, challenge convention as much as the portrait of Sir John Sulston by Marc Quinn, recently unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery.
We also used the device in portrait mode and found it still makes a fantastic word-processing machine, and it shouldn't be a surprise that Microsoft had one eye on the enterprise market.
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.