While I disagree as I always found myself fighting predictive text because it wouldn't get the word I wanted (I have never used Nokia predictive text so perhaps I was just unlucky) I still agree that its silly not to have both options. It is the key feature keeping the N900 for being usable in portrait and while I am quite happy in landscape, I cannot deny that portrait has its uses especially when on the bus where holding landscape with someone sat next to you is hard because the seats are so narrow your shoulders stick out. That and of course having to hold it in two hands just to change the track you are playing or operate a web page (the current web portrait mode still sucks as its not fully functional) is just stupidly cumbersome.

As for 3G (to stay on topic), when I was on Vodafone a while back I had a lot of problems with it flicking between 2/3G all the time, calls not coming through or dropping even when stood still because it suddenly decided to drop for 3G to 2G. I believe the 3G standards are improved on that experience so it can seamlessly fall back to 2G without dropping the call (or can it?) but it was certainly far from a pleasant experience. That said, my O2 contract is about to end and thank goodness for that, as only my N900 can keep a signal in the house on O2, any other phone I tried it drops.