+Jeep4two Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I've had my Oregon for a short time now. I'm loving the features and have been pleased with the screen performance overall. I see that Garmin is giving lots of attention to the Oregon software right now and adding features, refining, and hopefully removing all the bugs. One thing I have wondered is if anyone has seen any requests or feels there will be any move toward offering a 'rotate display' or landscape display option for the Oregon? With the touch screen the display orientation is easy enough to change (since there are no hard buttons, only soft keys using the touch screen). I see a benefit when using in automotive mode. In addition a landscape mode would make it possible to integrate a qwerty keyboard. I even think that a qwerty keyboard when in landscape mode (a quick flick around in the hand to make log entries - then back to landscape to navigate to the next cache) would be fine as well. I'm sure there will be lots of UI feature updates and changes after the bugs are worked out. Any opinions/ideas? Quote Link to comment
+Red90 Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 It was mentioned many moons ago and Garmin said no. Quote Link to comment
+WHO-DEY Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 ...but many moons ago was many moons ago. This is now. I agree. I thought the same thing when I first got my 400t. I can see some value to it. I am not sure what it would take to do...but I can see it's value in many apps. - Quote Link to comment
+Red90 Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I doubt they have the enthusiasm. They would need to design and market different mounts as well. Quote Link to comment
+Tequila Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I doubt they have the enthusiasm. They would need to design and market different mounts as well. Actually the current Garmin auto mount allows you to rotate your OR on a ball joint to any position you desire. It is a very good auto mount. Quote Link to comment
+Jeep4two Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 I doubt they have the enthusiasm. They would need to design and market different mounts as well. Actually the current Garmin auto mount allows you to rotate your OR on a ball joint to any position you desire. It is a very good auto mount. Yes - the Garmin mount rotates 90 Degs (my old mount for my Legend did as well - it was Garmin branded - never understood why it would rotate so far). None the less - it seems like a simple software update but I'm no programmer (YUCK!). I'll send a note to the beta folks and an e-mail to custsrv. Can't hurt. My mom used to say no a lot too . . . sometimes I'd manage to get a yes after 1567 nos I'll encourage all others interested in a landscape display option to let Garmin know as well. Quote Link to comment
+Sith78 Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 that would be amazing....!!! Quote Link to comment
+anniebananie Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Garmin had this technology (portrait & landscape screens) on the Garmin GPSIII+ over 10 years ago. Anniebananie Quote Link to comment
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