Do you use Ovi Maps in Landscape or Portrait?
If like me, you use Nokia maps in the car, van or other vehicle, and use the drive navigation, you can help Ovi Maps team by allowing them to hear your suggestions to improve your experience even more.
This is probably one of the shortest surveys ever, just 2 simple questions:
- Do you prefer using Drive navigation in Landscape or Portrait while driving?
- Why?
Use that field Q2 to say exactly what you think, I’m sure they wouldn’t mind a couple of suggestions too, just try to keep it brief!
To take the Survey,. just head over to: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/545385/Why-Portrait-vs-Landscape
Message from the Ovi Maps team:
If you use Drive navigation, we’d love to know which view you prefer: Landscape or Portrait (your phone either horizontal or vertical). And more importantly, why do you like one more than the other?
Take a minute for our survey and let us know what you think!
Our design team would also like to thank those who participated in the last Drive navigation survey – your input was very helpful and much appreciated.
Feel free to comment below as well!
source: Nokia Beta Labs Blog
Category: Nokia
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I don’t use it, I have an n900
I’m dumbfounded…. You have an N900 and you use that for navigation over the N8? How? Why? I must know! lol!
I don’t thing that nabil2199 uses it for navigation!
what I meant is that since I only have an n900, I ask people for directions
Lol! Gotcha! I thought you knew of a better way than the built in Ovi Maps or Sygic for turn by turn navigation on the N900.
i use it in landscape mode. it looks more like a gps to me that way
same here. landscape is more convenient and it does not block my view as portrait mode
landscape…
Landscape…because it looks like a racing game!
LOL same here…
What mount is that?
I don’t thing that nabil2199 uses it for navigation!I don’t know, it’s the one Nokia have used for the Survey, just looked again it it seems like the N8 is stuck onto it or something as I cannot see any grips around the phone!!!
maybe Photoshop job though!
its a clingo car holder
Thanks!
Portrait. The bar on the top is too big in landscape and I want to see the upcoming turn from father away. If they made the side and top bar smaller I would use landscape all the time though.
100% My exact thoughts! Seriously! I wil be using ovi maps for a 3 state trip tomorrow by myself and it wil be portrait all the way due to those large and in charge ui bars. They could atleast make them transparent!
me too. Also portrait.
Oh geez… are they seriously asking that? Because they shall improve and create the best UI for both situations, as one can decide just in time… sounds like they wanna drop support for either :-/ Anyway, I use portrait over landscape because that way I can see more of what’s coming next. 3D and low zoom of course. That’s what makes my N8 supperior to normal SATNAV solutions and embedded ones. Besides that, I support circular displays for the future, as we won’t have any aspect ratio issues then
I can’t imagine using a circular phone, it completely kills one-handed usage.
They are asking the question because they want to know which one to focus on. If they know that 70% of their drivers use it in landscape then they can tweak their map layout and interface layout to work better in that orientation. Because widescreen devices aren’t 1:2 it’s not as simple as ‘perfecting both orientations’.
yep, it’s more so they can find what is good about each way, and what people wish was better or different so they can change.
As long as they don’t neglect the other orientation… I do mind because I might be within the 30%
Circular phones wouldn’t kill one handed usage. With the right sensors and UI elements as well as a clever hardware design, things could be very funny
Yet I only mentioned a circular display…
Ummm portrait for walking
Landscape looks prettier, portrait driving in a car seems plain weird, real GPS units are always landscape, it seems to use the screen space better (though could improve a little) and it is more comfortable.
Our eyes also have a wide vision (“see widescreen”) so it makes much more sense. Besides, 16:9 aspect ratio is considered by some as being “too thin” to be used in portrait if the screen size is lower than 3,8″ or 4″ (the E7 is 4″ so that’s not a problem, but landscape still looks and feels better).
Personally, I always use my phone in landscape (even one-handed, except for one-handed typing), and I hate when an app doesn’t have landscape mode. It can miss on portrait mode but not in landscape. Landscape is also so much better for using video-out in “mirror screen” mode.
I don’t have a mount yet so I keep the phone in landscape, it fits perfectly on the slot below the car stereos.
I use portrait to see more of what is coming up. And by the way, I hate the 3D-view. Why does that crap come up as default all the time?
If only the maps for Thailand would be as good as in Nokia Maps 2. I reported lots of errors, but even after half a year there is no change. (Wrong streets names, wrong direction of one-ways, etc.)
In the most cases I prefer portrait
because I can see more of what’s next in front of me
and portrait is like my driving direction.
But
when I want to see a movie at a long trip on the german autobahn I prefer landscape because it would need too much attention for turning it from portrait to landscape
The heck, you are watching movies while driving at 300 km/h?
No, my car have a 250km/h limiter. That’s making driving so boring
I use both orientations. hahaha. nothing is good or bad. I optimize my way in using the OVI Maps.
Its a silly poll really.. real GPS units are 16:9 landscape mode, not vertical… as well as TV’s now also.. and its for a reason.
I swear Nokia is stuck in 2001, and so far behind the times to even ask a question like this.
Landscape mode should be their priority for Maps..But as others have said.. Nokia just has no clue to use the screen real estate properly.
The on screen status bars are way to big and effectively take up 1/3 of the screen in Landscape mode.
I have given them this feedback numerous times over the last year, and it continues to be ignored.
Hopefully they get it right with WP7..
Portrait. N8 display is too narrow to make landscape use that good, plus you can see more map in portrait.