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Landscape Surfing

Etix

Oct 3, 2008, 12:48 PM
Quote from review "The screen is large enough to make the mobile Internet rewarding, bit I do wish that you can surf with the phone sideways. The Diamond only surfs the Web in portrait orientation. "

You can surf opera in landscape, just turn it sideways since it has the build in accelerometer. Granted sometimes it doesnt register, it will do it tho...
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Eric M. Zeman

Oct 3, 2008, 1:08 PM
I tested this again this afternoon. It still won't rotate the screen. Could be the accelerometer in my review unit is faulty.
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Etix

Oct 3, 2008, 1:26 PM
Maybe try to play the "teeter" game, its pretty addictive really and uses the accelerometer exclusively. Also i didnt see any reference to the d-pad having a touch sensor. You can spin your thumb around the d-pad circle and zoom in and out in web pages and pictures.
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thatguy_overthere

Oct 3, 2008, 1:35 PM
Mine sometimes doesn't register moving it sideways either (I'm the advocate for my store). I found that if you are zoomed in on a page it will not move to landscape. You have to zoom back out and then turn the phone and it will normally register the flip fine.

I think that fix is just a software update away.
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deejal

Oct 6, 2008, 1:01 AM
Mine usually would flip to landscape mode on 90% of the web pages and applications. I did have to go into settings and set it to "mobile view" and that resolved most of the landscape versus portrait settings. I found the phone to be very responsive. But, I took it back.
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