Today I submitted a feature request to Apple. I asked them to consider switching off the automatic screen rotation on the ipod touch and iphone. But only at night time. Normally if you rotate the device, the screen aspect changes from portrait and landscape - very cool. But if you are lying down in bed and want to read something, you end up chasing the screen orientation around because even though your head is horizontal, the ipod assumes that you're vertical ... do you see what I mean? It's very frustrating. It doesn't have to just be night time, maybe there could be a button that locks the screen. Or a little question that asks - "are you lying down?"
I'll let you know that they say. I hope I get a reply as long as the duck one.
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Surely there is an app for that?
Posted by: twitter.com/itsmoirob | Friday, 23 October 2009 at 05:40 AM
Ah! I've found the solution! you rotate the iPod 90 degrees, and the screen flips, then you rotate it another 90 degrees in the same direction and the screen doesn't change. problem solved. back to bed.
Posted by: ianbee | Friday, 23 October 2009 at 07:54 AM