Comments on: Palm Pre Tip of the Day: View Email in Landscape

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:55:56 +0000

No, it is nice for me. I do not have to put my reading glasses on to read. Much better.

By: bluespapa

bluespapa — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:04:59 +0000

This has already been useful to me a handful of times. I’m not sure why it isn’t just a native feature, but as a hack, it rocks. So to speak.

By: Carl Zulauf

Carl Zulauf — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:01:57 +0000

I like this feature… just wish it was sticky. Couldn’t get it to work until I read that you have to hold the shift key down! So used to not doing that.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:26:07 +0000

Read it again (from the post above):

“I occasionally get one of those HTML emails that is too wide for the narrow screen. The email app doesn’t natively rotate into landscape, which would make it easier to read such email”

Get it now?

By: Me

Me — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:22:35 +0000

That is pretty idiotic since you can’t type sideways on the keyboard.

By: bluemonq

bluemonq — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:11:44 +0000

One thing to note: you’ll probably be more successful if you *hold down* the shift key when typing in capitalized letters. That’s also from PreCentral, as well as personal experience.

Two things, though: you’ll still have to be in portrait mode to reply, and when you’re in landscape mode (this applies to web pages as well) you won’t see the notification icons or the menu. Having to flip to portrait while in the middle of reading to change tracks can be a little annoying sometimes…