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November 25, 2007 Automatic Screen Rotation On N82 Posted by Kevin at 09:45 AM | Categories: Devices

As many of you have heard the Nokia N82 has Automatic Screen Rotation using the accelerometer. Here is a video that I recorded to show how the Automatic Screen Rotation works with different applications. Sorry the camera isn't focussed very well on the N82's screen but you can still see the applications fairly well.


N82 Automatic Screen Rotation on Vimeo.

Music Credit: The song playing on the N82 is Drive Away by Matthew Ebel, if you like the song check out Matthew Ebel's site to listen to more of his music.
Video was recorded with the Nokia N93i.

The Automatic Screen Rotation works with most applications, including 3rd party applications, on the N82. However some applications were designed to work in a certain screen orientation, such as Camera related applications designed to work in Landscape, Automatic Screen Rotation will not work with these applications. For those of you that are wondering what features and applications don't support Automatic Screen Rotation, I've compiled a list.

Below is the list of applications that do not support Automatic Screen Rotation:
- Screensaver
- Idle Screen
- Main Camera (5 Megapixel camera) and Front Camera
- Video Call
- N-gage Games
- Barcode Reader
- Snake game
- Phone calls
- Video Center

If I missed any please let me know in the comments.

Also if you decide you want to turn off the Automatic Screen Rotation you can do so in General Settings. The setting is available in Settings -> General -> Personalisation -> Display -> Rotate screen, change it from Automatic to Off and the screen will no longer rotate.


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Fantastic video demo, but no one holds their phone like that. I'm testing the N82 right now and if you hold your device tilted close to 45 degrees then the rotation feature is a hit or miss.

Posted by: Stefan Constantinescu | November 26, 2007 12:09 PM

The 3rd party application "rotateme" is able to rotate "Snake" without problems. How come?

Posted by: Jukka | November 27, 2007 12:04 PM

Jukka, that's a good question :) Nice job Kevin! I have to say too that most of the time it's not working for me. When UI gets stuck in the wrong position I then try "shake" it to get it back :|

Posted by: Jukka Eklund | November 27, 2007 11:33 PM

Good questions Jukka and Jukka E.,
While it is technically possible to rotate the Snake game it wasn't designed with quick screen orientation rotations in mind, there were some issues with the in-game graphics and performance thus Snake does not support Automatic Screen Rotation.

Posted by: Kevin | November 28, 2007 06:45 AM

do n82 have landscape in gaming it is Automatic Screen Rotation or we should set it

Posted by: saradhyk | December 22, 2007 02:36 PM

n81 8gb is good gaming phone or n82

Posted by: saradhyk | December 22, 2007 02:43 PM

coooool graphics in n82 you know we can make it landscape when we turn it 90 degree it will turn into landscape coooooool 3d games games like nitro street racing,turbo jrt ski and brothers in arms.I will give some names of 2d games they are assassins creed,big range shooting.

Posted by: saradhyk | December 23, 2007 12:55 PM

I love this auto screen rotation ...

its simply too good to browse websites in landscape mode .. are there any games which work based on this accelerometer ?

Posted by: Varun | January 14, 2008 11:12 AM

nice screen rotasion

Posted by: elena | March 31, 2008 05:15 PM

N82 d-pad is useless for gaming I must say or perhaps I have a defect unit. Otherwise it is a great phone!!

Posted by: Jukka | March 31, 2008 06:56 PM


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