Type e-mails in landscape mode on iPhone or iPod touch

October 15, 2008 By Etan Horowitz

For all of the great features found on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, one of the big annoyances is that when you are writing an e-mail you can't turn the phone horizontally to make the keyboard bigger (landscape mode).

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