my two cents on a very old topic, with a minor development: someone using a rotate hack on PR 1.2 SDK discovered a PORTRAIT keyboard! the problem was that the bottom keys were overlapping. Im not sure whether that was an incomplete function that is/was being developed or if it was simply due to Maemo's on rotation algorithims. The point is that it could easily be done by simple resizing but may not be very ergonomical. As for portrait mode, the Braek hack showed that many elements can easily be used in portrait. But i dont want them all. I only need Conversations (Braek shows it is VERY easy to do), mail, and the music player. As for autorotating the desktop, simply maintain the placement of all icons but flip their image so that they can be viewed vertically. as for widgets and their contents, some will work under this idea (square ones, like simple note) while rectangular one could for now stay as they were while in portrait. that's an imperfect but handy quick fix.