About portrait-mode, pretty well know even before it started shipping that the N900 wouldn't have portrait-mode so I find i strange how many user still nagging about it.

It was promoted as a landscape orientated screen to take advantage of full webpage layout so if we ever see portrait-mode you should really see that as a bonus feature.
Not as something that we were promised and didn't get.

Same with the OS, we bought the phone with Maemo 5 and Nokia fixed quite a few horrible bugs etc in 3 different FW upgrades and the majority are pretty damn happy with the phone.

Also no need to speculate, we WILL get new code for the N900 end of march, probaby a 1st draft aimed at the devels.

So sit back and relax and enjoy the phone!