Poor Apple - they pump all those design resources into the iPhone, lovingly crafting a beautiful interface only to have those pesky users poke holes in it just because it is ‘inconvenient’ or ‘not as good as it could be’.
The lack of landscape-mode typing in th eMail client is a persistent iPhone bugbear and one that Apple seems reluctant to fix. Thank heaven then for Mike Schneider, who has written TouchType - a sneaky workaround that will at least let you create new emails with a better onscreen keyboard, if not reply to them.
The app can’t replace the real Mail interface, but it does let you draft the text of your mail in its own widescreen format and then creates a new email in Mail with your entered text.
It’s not perfect but it will have to do, I suppose. TouchType costs 99 cents from the App Store.
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