Palm Pre Tip of the Day: View Email in Landscape
Image courtesy PreCentral
The Palm Pre auto-rotate feature is very useful, but I occasionally get one of those HTML emails that is too wide for the narrow screen. The email app doesn’t natively rotate into landscape, which would make it easier to read such email — that is, it didn’t rotate until this simple little hack was reported.
PreCentral points out that enabling landscape mode in the Pre email app is as simple as typing in:
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This has to be done in the mailbox listing view (top level), and it’s not sticky. This means you need to do this every time you open the email app, so just leave it running in the background all the time. That’s what multi-tasking is for, anyway.
One thing to note: you’ll probably be more successful if you *hold down* the shift key when typing in capitalized letters. That’s also from PreCentral, as well as personal experience.
Two things, though: you’ll still have to be in portrait mode to reply, and when you’re in landscape mode (this applies to web pages as well) you won’t see the notification icons or the menu. Having to flip to portrait while in the middle of reading to change tracks can be a little annoying sometimes…
That is pretty idiotic since you can’t type sideways on the keyboard.
Read it again (from the post above):
“I occasionally get one of those HTML emails that is too wide for the narrow screen. The email app doesn’t natively rotate into landscape, which would make it easier to read such email”
Get it now?
No, it is nice for me. I do not have to put my reading glasses on to read. Much better.
I like this feature… just wish it was sticky. Couldn’t get it to work until I read that you have to hold the shift key down! So used to not doing that.
This has already been useful to me a handful of times. I’m not sure why it isn’t just a native feature, but as a hack, it rocks. So to speak.