Autorotatrant2007 Auto rotate is finally here and it’s hopefully here to stay! But the situation with this feature is not all good. Sure it’s a wonderful element to have as there are many way to implement this in apps and games and it’s one of those cool things to show off to family and friends, but analyzing the deal with auto-rotation I had ask myself why oh why Nokia?

Why Oh why…..

1)…does the N82 get auto-rotation yet no word about it making an appearance in the flagship N95? Stranger still is the fact that the N95 conveniently does have the accelerometer!

2)… didn’t Nokia implement auto-rotation from the start? This makes people think that this was one of those things that IPhone could do and the N95 couldn’t.

3)….doesn’t the auto-rotation work when you turn the N82 to the right?

4)….doesn’t Nokia use a transitional effect with the auto-rotation? Sure, the process of auto-rotating the screen happens very quickly, but it’s done abruptly and looks unfinished.

5)…does the auto-rotation slow down when I install certain apps or when I have many apps installed? It’s true that some apps or installing many apps on your device will eventually slow down the device but why would it have such a dramatic effect on this feature? Isn’t there a powerful 3D that is capable of impressive graphics, why not put it to use to accelerate the UI and the auto-rotation?