This thread shouldn't even exist.

There shouldn't be a question about supporting portrait mode in addition to landscape mode.

Community members created a portrait mode for the N8X0 tablets with a hacked kernel. As far as applications goes, that's on the individual developers. Including a rough portrait mode in the kernel officially (it could be hidden, but for the sake of stability) is a "duh" move.

The "well there isn't a portrait-mode keyboard", wrong. The stylus keyboard works great in portrait mode. Yes the finger keyboard doesn't. But I think we can take care of that, ok?

It's not even about reading the text, rotated 90 degrees. IM windows, web browsers, etc. allow for more content (less scrolling) on screen in portrait mode. Yes applications can do forced pseudo portrait mode, such as the calculator VTI.

As with an accelerometer on board this is no excuse.

Take the initiative team Nokia.

It doesn't need to be pretty, it just needs to work.