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Originally Posted by cjard View Post
Can this thing not be used in portrait mode other than for the phone dial pad?
Not really - you can press Ctrl+Shift+O in the browser to enable portrait mode there, but it's only partly implemented.

Originally Posted by cjard View Post
When connecting to e.g. the wireless network they have in the pub, it wants me to push a button on the router, or type a pin into the router - why can't we just have the old fashioned way of "ask the pub staff what the wpa key is, they tell me, and i type it in" - how do I enter the wpa key as a word without this pin/button pushing nonsense?
There's a workaround given in the bug report, but the issue has been flagged as not going to be fixed in Maemo 5.

Originally Posted by cjard View Post
How can I type my SMS etc with a 3x3 key pad (like a phone) - I really don't like qwerty keyboards because I find them cumbersome and slow.. I'm after a portrait mode, can-be-operated-with-just-a-thumb, 3x3 button layout with predictive text (i.e. like a regular phone) - how do I do that?
I don't think you can currently - there's a brainstorm been set up for this, but it doesn't look like there's been any progress.

Originally Posted by cjard View Post
I can't find any form of Switch app (to copy contacts and messages off my old device) - how do we do this painlessly? (Nokia Content Copier will only copy contacts; messages are not transportable)
You can certainly easily sync contacts, not sure about messages though - there's a "Transfer & sync" option in the Settings application, which allows you to import data from another device. You can try with that and see whether it imports messages.

Originally Posted by cjard View Post
How do I make the phone forget all the badly spelled words the previous owner seems to have entered? Example, if I type YOU, the phone suggests YOUUUUUUUUUUUU with the UUUUUUUU highlighted.
See this thread for instructions on clearing this up.

Originally Posted by cjard View Post
Can the thing that organises the main screen snap the icons to a larger grid or must I mess around nudging with the stylus till they line up? (They tend to jump out of line just as I remove the stylus from the screen)
Yes, you can set this using Tweakr, which should be in the extras-testing repository.