02-23-2005, 12:00 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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How Often Do You Use Landscape Support On Your Pocket PC?
I was having a discussion with some friends about how much they used their Pocket PC in landscape mode. I rarely use it, whereas I had one friend that uses it almost exclusively. I am interested in all Pocket PC users that have landscape support, whether it is built in on a Windows Mobile 2003 SE device or via a third party app like NYDITOT. Those of you that use it, reply in the forum if you have 2003SE or a third party app.
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02-23-2005, 12:08 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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- Less than 25% of the time, but I do make use of it.
- Using WM2003SE
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02-23-2005, 12:11 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 241
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Who me?
Well, I have a 2215 with no landscape support. I tried NYDITOT and I realized the answer to the name - because it makes my PPC stop working 
However I use my PPC in landscape about 75 % of the time. Most of my use falls into programs which make good use of landscape:
Watching movies with Betaplayer
Reading books in �Book
Playing various games, the best of which are usually landscape
(no offense to Astraware. still good even though they are portrait)
There are some other applications I use that use landscape and many that do not, but these are among the most heavily used.
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02-23-2005, 12:20 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 117
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Device: Tosh e805
OS: WM2003 SE
Landscape mode used for:
(a) viewing certain webpages (i.e. with tables, etc...)
(b) Terminal services client
(c) some Excel spreadsheets
(d) Betaplayer
(e) Mapopolis
Since re-assigning one of my hardware buttons to toggle between Landscape and Portrait, I find that I toggle back and forth very readily and naturally (almost as readily as one might use a scroll bar -- perhaps more).
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02-23-2005, 12:21 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 62
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I'm using an iPAQ rx3715 (or used, since I had to send it back to HP for repairs)
Anyway, I only use landscape mode for viewing pictures/videos and web browsing, which is probably 50% of the time.
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02-23-2005, 12:26 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 97
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YES - I am in the minority here; but, I use Landscape, while in VGA Mode 640x480 (using SE_VGA), 100% of the time. Its the primary reason why I got my iPaq HX4700.
If an application does not support or work well in VGA Landscape mode, I don't use/buy it. Tweaks 2k2 .NET and SE_VGA allow me to set my HX4700 with larger fonts / scroll bars, while RipBoard gives me a big usable keyboard (when I'm not using Caligrapher) for input. Surprisingly, a lot of apps do work in this mode (some much better than others).
Developers making future improvements and upgrades, in my opinion, need to support all four video modes (normal QVGA portrait, QVGA landscape, VGA Portrait, and VGA Landscape) in their applicaitions. Those that do this will have a better following for newer hardware.
-JB
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02-23-2005, 12:36 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 1
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Percent of time is misleading
I think the way you framed thi poll is misleading.
For example, I leave my iPAQ cradled next to my desktop PC for about 9 hours a day. I use it during this time since it shows my daily tasks and/or calendar. This is in portrait mode.
On my commute, though, which is a much smaller percentage of time, I might browse the web, read email, or watch a video. All of these I do in landscape mode.
But, even though the percentage of time I use landscape is small, the importance of this functionality is not small at all.
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02-23-2005, 12:41 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 108
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When I got my 4700 I was thinking I'd use the landscape VGA mode all the time - nope. Turns out I'm in portrait for almost everything except watching movies with betaplayer of course.
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02-23-2005, 12:46 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 355
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I fall into the "occasionally" category - I use landscape for movies, of course, but with other apps, the one I use almost exclusively in landscape is Textmaker, which I use quite a bit. Otherwise, I rarely flip to landscape for email, web-browsing, tasks, etc.
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02-23-2005, 01:01 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 119
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I use nydiot for landscape mode whenever I choose to browse the web, which is roughly 50% of how I use my 4155. I pump up the virtual resolution and rotate to landscape mode to make the best of my already hampered pocket-webbrowsing experience.
It doesn't come as a suprise that the results for people using landscape are so low, especially for those on machines with native support but lack vga displays. On that note, I never understood the point of native support on non-vga devices since the toolbars were still the same awful size, reducing your view even more as a result.
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