I honestly wish that would be true, as I expect many devices to drop the keypad in the future. Typing on the N900 keypad is pure joy (I can't stand the N810 keypad either by the way), and it gives much more control while viewing (and interacting with!) the entire screen, including games. It will take a lot to make me replace the N900 with a keypad-less device in the future.


I would be surprised if this wouldn't have been the result of a network slowdown.

I don't know what this is about, double-tapping homes in on the paragraph of text just like it should do on the iPhone. Perhaps he missed this or it malfunctioned when he tried it.

I think what some people are missing is, that few devices are completely landscape and portrait. But most devices are meant to be used in portrait mode, and have more or less complete coverage of landscape orientation. The N900 is meant to be used in landscape orientation, and I believe that is the right decision.

So instead of comparing the N900's support of portrait orientation to other devices' support of portrait orientation, I believe it is fairer to compare the N900's support of portrait orientation to other devices' support of landscape orientation (e.g. the Palm Pre).

Much more complete coverage of portrait usage would have required a large amount of resources, and then it becomes a question of priorities. Doing a half-assed job on this would have lead to more confusion than it's worth, if users have to keep switching back to landscape all the time anyway.

I don't think it's a big deal, considering that you can still hold the device in one hand quite comfortably, and one hand is usually sufficient to scroll and read content at least.