Hm. Interesting thread.

When I first got my phone-puter (courtesy of NoobMonkey, thanks man) it was certainly one of the things I missed. I say that because I often used to have my other hand occupied with something else whilst I was texting - usually occupied with either beer or a smoke. Or Vodka. Or woman. Or child A. Obviously considering the importance of all of these things (note priority string) I was reluctant to relinquish the single handed texting function. An SMS app that supports portrait mode using T9 predicitve would certainly benefit me.

Although, by very much the same token I also would like to see the media player with portrait support - why? Because when you are walking down the road, phone in pocket, and all you want to do is take it out of your pocket and change song, keeping your other hand nicely snuggled in the warm, it feels kinda.... Unbalanced and at risk taking a fall all the time you are juggling it with one hand trying to reach buttons configured for landscape. I just wanna make sure my phoneputer stays in pristine condition, whilst being as lazy as I possibly can and protecting my poor little donnies from frostbite.

I like portrait. I could also whine and moan about a myriad of things that bug me a little. Like when you are charging the phone the input is in the polar opposite position to every other Nokia I have every owned and when I first got the phone, the of times I answered the phone and was speaking into the earpiece?! Yeh, nice one Nokia, you made a right prat out of me on more than one occassion!

Whats the point in a firmware update to address portrait mode texting. There will be an app or a hack for that. As firmware updates go, they should be addressing glitches, bugs, and be offering performance improvements in terms of battery life and rootfs space, for example. Not portrait support.

You want it, you code it.

Says the n00b