On 2010-07-12, at 19:11, Raju Bitter wrote:

> No, Tucker, we have the same concept of what portrait and landscape
> mean. But Android will judge that an application is in landscape mode
> using the accelerometer data, not caring if you have a square display.
> Take that Motorola phone. If you hold it upright, tilt it left 90
> degrees then the accelerometer will send the Android app an event
> saying: "We are going into landscape mode", no matter what the screen
> resolution of the display is. Maybe that's Google/Android's engineer's
> misinterpretation of landscape, so complain to Google if you want.

I wonder what Android would do if the phone were square too?  Maybe that's what 
killed the Kin?

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