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Originally Posted by Julius Caesar
Question: Currently, the built-in accelerometer that come with Kindle Oasis only works if you flip the device 180 degrees. Therefore, it only works if you want to switch holding the device between your left and right hand.
If you want to switch between portrait and landscape mode, you still need to do it manually. Is it technically possible for Amazon to make the accelerometer works for switching between portrait and landscape mode with the future firmware updates?
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Don't see why not. All accelerometers are surely capable of it. But whether this is desirable is another matter: people read lying on their sides sometimes (e.g. reading in bed) and you don't want the thing flipping over when you do that!
I've found that the sensitivity of the accelerometer is nearly perfect. I've had a couple of spurious flips when putting it down on tables, but the rest of the time the amount of hysteresis is right, and it doesn't flip over unless I *mean* to invert it, and never misses a flip.