Only in the baby scenario I could see using any device in portrait mode. Heck even with the n800 with rotation enabled so I read RSS feeds in portrait mode it's not that useful. I can't use it when walking outside because I will either bump into someone, walk into an object or the street, or trip due to the uneven pavement here. The only time I would see portrait mode useful would be on the Metro when I'm trying to use it standing up (while holding onto some railing). Not saying portrait mode isn't useful (see my Metro example) but I find the whole use the device in portrait mode while walking kind of exaggerated at times.

@nowave7

"For a lot of things, one still needs to open terminal and do things manually, which is something not acceptable for an ordinary user."

Hmm.. I might be wrong but I don't remember having to open up a terminal to use the n800 as Nokia had intended. Now if I wanted to install applications that developers didn't put in extras or needed to pull a dependency. Or to turn on swap or clone my disk then yes I would need the terminal. But again that's not within what Nokia originally intended the device to do.

You are going to have that problem no matter what Nokia does however. Because the people pushing the device to the limits don't care if you can easily follow them or not. If you want to follow them, then you will learn. If not, then just use the device as Nokia intended. And yes that's not user friendly, but not every developer cares to take out the time to make their installation or port user friendly for people.

But things like the user interface of say the n900 I do agree could be more user friendly.