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Default Who has disabled screen rotation?

This tablet lends itself so well to landscape mode that I have chosen to disabled auto-rotation. It gets annoying when I'm laying in bed making sweet love to my Xoom and the screen flips 90* on me.
 
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I actually disable it on all my devices. That being this said, this is the first one i disabled into landscape mode.
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Same here.
 
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I have disabled it also. It is annoying when laying in bed and I turn to my side the screen will automatically rotates. Any games like Air Attack HD that are designed for the tablet to be vertical; it will automatically rotate the screen anyways. The only reason I could think of the use for vertical layout is for typing with your thumbs only.

I would strongly recommend buying Thumb Keyboard from the market. It is only 1.32 Euros and $1.87 US. It is so nice to type with my thumbs while holding the tablet landscape. I can type so fast when surfing the internet. It cuts the keyboard in half and moves the keys to the sides and has a 10 key number pad in the middle. Select 10 inch tablet mode in settings. Try it out. You have 15 minutes to test drive it and if you don't like it, uninstall it and get a full refund.
 
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I leave it enabled on all my devices.
If you got it use it, that's how I see it.

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I bought thumb keyboard but then I bought SlideIT (I have Swype on my droid).
 
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I use an app call "Tablet Keyboard" same price range. They also have a free version, which is only a few keys that is removed from the paid version. Similar to the thumb keyboard. And boy is it a joy typing and not having ti be all over the place. I still use the full keyboard style when typing longer like an email or word document on my Xoom.
 
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I use an app call "Tablet Keyboard" same price range. They also have a free version, which is only a few keys that is removed from the paid version. Similar to the thumb keyboard. And boy is it a joy typing and not having ti be all over the place. I still use the full keyboard style when typing longer like an email or word document on my Xoom.
I tried the Tablet Keyboard and did not see an option for suggested words while typing where Thumb Keyboard does. Is this a feature I am missing or maybe in a paid version? I am pretty happy with Thumb Keyboard but always looking for something better.
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