The one thing the iPhone desperately needs is an “under the covers laying on your side trying to do stuff without disturbing the other people* in the bed auto-rotate override” mode.
Someone get on that, would you?
*Yeah, what about it?
YES TOTALLY. Every morning, before I get up, I check e-mail and twitter from bed, but trying not to disturb my sleeping husband. The auto rotate drives me nuts!
Jailbreak your iphone and install SBPrefs and Rotation inhibitor. An awesome tool.