Samsung Tablets

[237SJ]

I need a new tablet (10 inch) and I`ve looked at Acer and Lenovo because they do 'landscape' ones but I keep coming back to Samsung who I have always favoured. Thier tabs are all upright now though so I dismissed them. Then I wondered, does it really make much difference? I know it will revert to landscape when watching iplayer etc but the controls will still be on one end. Do you get used to it?

[pixie374]

Rightly or wrongly, I thought most tablets were portrait. Laptops, chromebooks are usually landscape. If you use a tablet on landscape (kindles at least) the controls also are.

[237SJ]

Many tabs are landscape but the new Samsung ones are all upright.

[Old_Geezer]

They surely all just change depending on how you hold it, if you set it to, in the settings.

Some apps refuse to run in the orientation they weren't designed for though.

[pixie374]

Thanks, 237. Do the controls also not change to landscape if the view is?

[237SJ]

Thanks for the replies. The older tab As that I have seen in shops have hard buttons which would end up being on the side in landscape format but it seems the 2019 versions have on screen buttons so that's sorted.

[MTbowels]

I have a Tab A and I can assure you that you can view it however you like. It will turn to landscape format automatically if you turn it sideways and revert to portrait when the device is upright. You just have to remember that it responds quicker to change the format if the tablet is upright. The only problem you'll come across are those websites that refuse to display in landscape but they are few and far between. Reddit is one of them and I can't get it to work in landscape no matter what I do.There steel also some utilities that behave in the same way. Facebook is best displayed in portrait in any event.

[MTbowels]

Mine is a 2019 model and I can confirm the buttons are onscreen.