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iPhone 3.0. New features overview. Part three of five: Landscape mode.
Sean Carruthers: Hi, I am Sean Carruthers and welcome to the third in five part series on the iPhone 3.0 software update. You know, one of the nice things about the iPhone as well as the iPod Touch is they have motion sensors inside which not only allows the iPhone to know that it's being shaken back and forth but it also knows which orientation it's in.
It has a couple of applications that we've seen before hand in the previous generation of the product, for example, with the iPod, we actually can go into the portrait mode here, see a list of songs but if we take it and we tilt it sideways it will actually go into cover flow mode which will allow us to go through all the different things that are on here by the covers.
Now, that's not the only thing that was in the previous generations, there's also calculator, what we actually have a regular calculator when it's in this mode and we tilt it sideways and it goes into a scientific calculator mode. Now, the nice thing about the new version of the iPhone software is this has been added in and above other things that we didn't see for before.
So, for example, in mail, if we go into mail, we've got our regular layout here but we can actually see a little of the screen plus the keyboard here. Now, one thing you can do is just tilt it sideways and you've got a bigger version of the keyboard and more of the screen. So when you're typing in there, you can actually see this and actually bigger fonts when you actually have it in the full screen mode. So when you tilt it this way it's actually much, much smaller. So makes it little bit easier to see.
One other new place where you can actually see the landscape mode in action is here in stocks. So if you follow few of your favorite stocks, you can see at the bottom, it's got little chart which just shows what the performance of the stock is. Now, when you tilt it sideways, it actually goes into a mode where you can actually see graph in greater detail and not only that, now this is bigger it actually gets you to find a control, so you can actually highlight two sections of this and what the difference is and performance between these two different times and adjust it that way.
There's number of other different places in the iPhone where you can actually make use of iPhone in the landscape mode. Not, everywhere at, so it will depend on the application but poke around the sites see what you find out and thanks again for watching, don't forget to check out the other four parts in this series.
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