[mariachi4]

While you are in a conversation and you look back at the screen, you want to press hold,loudspeaker, cut off line or other in call function, the phone will auto rotate to landscape mode, which is very annoying, since the buttons layout will be different and will cause delay.

On the iphone, this auto rotate function is switched off during conversation, which is very practical.

Is there a function on the N97 to turn off the auto rotate during call conversation WHILE the general auto rotate function is switched on in Settings?

[radical24]

No i do not believe it is possible its either all or nothing sorry mate

[tonyponyza]

Is there any update on this?

I find the same auto-rotating issue before and during a call very irritating. For me, once the phone is ringingit should stay in whatever mode it is in. This way you dont waste anytime when trying to answer the call. It ir very irritating to take your phone out your pocket while it is ringing and find that the screen is sidewards or in the middle of flipping back to normal. It seems it actually takes longer to flip when the phone is ringing.

With the new fw2.0 I have put the auto rotate on as in the old firmware it was just terrible. 

[froschy]

Just tried it on fw v2.0, it still rotates during a phone call and there is no option to turn auto-rotation off during phone calls.

I found this design flaw in the UI very annoying. The phone rings, you pull it out of your pocket to answer and the screen rotates to landscape, and let's face it the N97 is not the snappiest phone so I missed a few calls waiting for the screen orientation to get itself sorted. I ended up just turning auto-rotation off, it will still change to landscape orientation when you open the keyboard.

*** Any Nokia employees reading this please forward this issue to the N97 team so that for the next fw update they can either turn auto-rotation off when receiving/during a phone call or include an option for this. ***