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NEXUS 7: Surf the net in Landscape or Portrait most of the time?
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I use my browser mostly portrait style on the N7.
I really only use landscape when watching a video, gaming, or remote desktop.
I really only use landscape when watching a video, gaming, or remote desktop.
Portrait. I prefer it. Easier to hold and the screen is so good that you can read small text just fine. I actually like the 7 in 16:10 over 7.9 inch 4:3 ipad mini because of how easy it is to hold in portrait. Also helps that the screen is much better than even the retina mini.
Portrait but the experience is still off compared to the iPad. The aspect ratio makes a huge difference. That's a big part of why I left the Nexus 7 and got an iPad again.
Same here. Using my iPad in portrait mode to surf the net AND being able to read everything on screen without zooming in = priceless. I still use my Nexus 7 though for video and gaming purposes though.
Google really, really needs to make a 4:3 ratio Nexus 8! If they do, I'll go back to Google for my tablet needs. If they don't, I'm staying with the iPad.
Same here. Portrait on a 16x9 7 inch tablet is no good. Android tablet apps are also embarrassingly bad and severely limited compared to iOS tablet apps
Its true that ios does heave better tablet apps, but there are tradeoffs since Android offers far more functionality. Ios has no file manager which makes it pretty much useless for anything besides light browsing (with no more than 2tabs due to severe lack ram) and Angry Birds.
Landscape creates a window blind effect to me. It's way narrow and displaying very little actual viewable content.
While N7 portrait was not as good as the iPad, it's vastly better than N7 in landscape mode.
For tablets I think the area of viewable content is key. The 3rd Nexus 7 would be better served with 3:2 or 4:3. 16:10 really detracts from the experience.
I agree that portrait is preferred for web browsing on a tablet but do question your second statement. The web has been around far longer that tablets, at least the recent proliferation and last time I checked, I don't recall seeing anyone use their laptops or desktop monitors sideways.
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Completely agree with these sentiments. Truth be told, I don't feel there actually is a better orientation when using the Nexus 7. I generally stick to portrait but find it too narrow and as Lloydbm41 mentioned, have to zoom in/out far too much. Landscape is just far too squashed to be useful for anything other than gaming or video.
On the contrary the internet was designed with 4:3 800x600 res monitors and landscape orientation.
That being said 4:3 portrait mode feels better than 16:9 portrait mode where for me it's too narrow and elongated.
Yes pages would have been designed for that spec originally but modern websites won't.
I agree that portrait is preferred for web browsing on a tablet but do question your second statement. The web has been around far longer that tablets, at least the recent proliferation and last time I checked, I don't recall seeing anyone use their laptops or desktop monitors sideways.
The reason I feel like that about websites is because the majority I see, websites seem to hardly ever take advantage of horizontal screen space, sites so often have the content in a narrow band dead in the centre of the page, with huge blank spaces either side, it annoys me seeing them.