Measure the height of the two keyboards and then tell me you still disagree. Landscape keys are 7mm tall and 7.5mm wide with 1mm between each key from top to bottom and 1.5mm from side to side. To type on landscape mode requires more reaching across the width of the screen so the finger tends to be hitting the display with the flatter parts of the finger and the margins become crucial and key height becomes a problem. I tried to type this paragraph in landscape and had numerous errors due to miskeying.
Well said. :biggrin:
Portrait keys are 8.5mm tall but only 4.5mm wide and with the same 1mm gap above and below, but only .5mm on each side. You might think that with the smaller margin on the sides that the error rate would go up, but because I am using the tips of my fingers less skin actually contacts the screen, so the actual "footprint" of my finger is a greater percentage smaller than the keys are narrower, resulting in the smaller side margins being more forgiving. Since we have finer motor control with our thumbs in the side to side reaching than we do up and down, the narrower keys are less of a problem. With the keys being taller, the weaker motor control of the finger on the vertical plane is compensated for.
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