I really don't get why people are taking this request for portrait mode so drastically. I came from having a N810 Internet Tablet to using the N900, and there was different expectations using a tablet than a phone.

I really liked my N810 and I still do. I don't think it required a portrait mode, due to it being a gadget which primarily was not used as often on the move. I would tend to use it somewhere with wifi and a comfortable chair.

Clearly Nokia has noticed this lack of portrait in the N900 already early on, since already in October 2009 there were reports of the Maemo 6 having portrait mode. Since anyway Maemo 5 is supposet to be the fourth step in this five step goal at Nokia, to a so called "finished" product. Why not test this feature before it is released in the next iteration of Maemo/Meego?