Now, you can lock the orientation sensor and pretty much never encounter this issue again (we can't ever really imagine needing to read a text-based book with adjustable font sizes in landscape mode, after all), but it seemed worth mentioning given it goes unchanged since the previous version.

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The Hand-writing mode is a sensory function allowing text messaging from hand writing.

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In portrait mode, about 30-35 lines of text are visible, offering an experience similar to that of a printed paperback book, says the company.

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The display is outstanding with the Windows 8 tile-based Modern UI but in desktop mode, icons and text are almost too small because of the dense resolution.

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In fact, we've found it hampers our workflow when attempting to compose an email or a simple text in Google Voice -- something the keyboard's Swype-like input mode handles with ease.

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We already provide translation for Web pages on the fly as you browse in Chrome, text in mobile photos, YouTube video captions, and speech-to-speech 'conversation mode' on smartphones.

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But this doesn't mean you can actually edit your file -- text docs port over to other apps as PDFs, which means they're still stuck in view-only mode for every program we currently have on our device.

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