Yes. but in order to "open" the phone app. you have to get through the "landscape" menu or have it placed on the desktops. Now if you were at a diff desktop. then you'll have to awkwardly go thru desktops holding the phone upwards while all the shortcut icons are facing the wrong way. Yes. there is an option to have the app launch automatically when you hold the phone upright. but it's slow and sometimes if you don't do it right, the phone wont launch at all. the lack of frontal buttons is not helping either. I understand the possibility of a global portrait mode is not strong for Maemo 5. it seems to be a Maemo 6 planned feature. And we cannot claim we didn't see this coming. The N900 Logo IS PRINTED on the phone in Landscape after all. But how about a compromise? We just need the following things to be Portrait. That's all. atleast for me. 1. Menu for launching stuff. 2. SMS/Conversations 3. Email 4. On-Screen Portrait Keyboard. 5. Browser Just give me those 5. Using the Braek glitch, the browser works just fine in Portrait. so we're like almost there.