Landscape vs Portrait

[Massimo Gnerucci]

(09-02-2016 08:09 PM)Logan Wrote:  The interesting question is, does landscape encourage setting it on a desk? Or do people enjoy landscape because they prefer putting their calculators on a desk?

Why should portrait, besides fitting perfectly in one's hand, prevent a desk use?

[emece67]

(09-02-2016 09:09 PM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  Why should portrait, besides fitting perfectly in one's hand, prevent a desk use?

I do not think that the portrait format prevents the desk use, just that the landscape one, in my case, fits better for such use. I've used, for years, a 48 in such a way (and earlier than that a 42), but now, after using landscape machines for a year or so, I feel them better.

[Maximilian Hohmann]

(09-02-2016 08:09 PM)Logan Wrote:  ... a portable calculator is made to be picked up and used and the use of one's thumbs ...

I don't think I ever used my thumbs to press any key other than the space bar on a computer or typewriter keyboard. I hold my calculators and phones in one hand and press the buttons with the fingers of the other - but never the thumb. To do that, I need devices with the portrait form factor.

[Massimo Gnerucci]

(09-02-2016 10:37 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  

(09-02-2016 08:09 PM)Logan Wrote:  ... a portable calculator is made to be picked up and used and the use of one's thumbs ...

I don't think I ever used my thumbs to press any key other than the space bar on a computer or typewriter keyboard. I hold my calculators and phones in one hand and press the buttons with the fingers of the other - but never the thumb. To do that, I need devices with the portrait form factor.

Ditto.

Looks like we're old school nowadays. :)