I don't actually care that much about universal portrait support*, but what does bother me is rather simple scenario everyone will face... what happens when you receive let's say a e-mail? From what i've gleaned from previews and... ahem... a review I would have to use both hands, unlock the phone and open the e-mail app.

That seems rather awkward to me, but I have an idea... how about the lock screen which we all know it's got, provides some useful information instead of just being a iPhone rip off. Have it display your recently received emails, txt, up coming calendar events/taks and any other info that relevant. This is a feature iPhone users have been clamouring for since the first iPhone came out.

Have that screen auto rotate so if I do receive a email out on the street I can get it out of my pocket flick the unlock slider or power button and quickly glance at the message. Portrait support in the email / messenger apps becomes irrelevant because if it's something you need to reply to you will be using the keyboard.

Just and idea...


* It would be nice - I most certainly don't support the "I don't want it" group of developers that seem to think it would double there UI code workload... I have an idea for that as well... if you don't want to support it in the app your making no one is forcing you to code/support it