Nokia N900 glitch leads to useful portrait mode, caught on video

Courtesy Engadget  Sun, 11/29/2009 - 14:19

File this under "it's not a bug, it's a feature" if true.

According to Guyver at the maemo.org forums, some glitch in the OS caused his Nokia N900 to switch into portrait mode for everything, not just dialer and photo apps as previously allowed.

We'd love to eliminate the need for two hands to run our favorite chunks of mobile software, but so far we haven't been able to recreate his trick.

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