I have found that if you set the phone app to landscape mode, the phone app appears almost instantly, even while playing videos, and I now no longer miss calls.

The downside is its not so easy to use single handed.

Hi Peter, it is very important that Meego is also an enterprise device. I can not access my work email due to lack of provisioning on Nokia N900. That is why I currently use another device for my day to day functioning.

Done. Whatever, I always use the phone in landscape anyway. Thanks for the heads up...

The multi-tasking is the killer function of the Maemo 5 platform.

The ability to switch from browsing, to a game, back to browsing to find a hint how to beat a game, all while listening to music with a terminal connection open watching the load on a server after I've deployed some updates/packages and keeping up with some friends via IM (Skype or AIM) and not have it slow down terribly... that's how I multi-task.

And I'll be damned if I can do that on any other mobile platform without jumping all the way up to my laptop.

Improve on that - it's not perfect, but it's so damn good.

Hi Peter - thanks for popping into talk.maemo.org !

I have the following up all the time:

1. Microb - Facebook
2. Microb - tweetgo.net
3. Microb - Gmail
4. Microb - Another Gmail account
5. Microb - talk.maemo.org
6. Contacts
7. Conversations

I use multi-tasking as I would on a desktop computer. So, for instance, I will reload Gmail, then switch to Facebook, and reload that. Then switch back to Gmail, switch again to Facebook. I do this for many of the web pages I have open to keep a 'current view of things'. Also, I filter my contacts by 'availability', so I switch to that between other tasks to see if any of my contacts have suddenly come online.

The one thing I feel can be improved with multi-tasking is: CPU intensive tasks such as: App Manager (D/L and installing apps), Media Player, and Phone can make the N900 slow to a crawl with many apps open in the dashboard. This makes answering VoIP/Cellular calls difficult sometimes as the UI and phone app become unresponsive. Sometimes when I am placing a call, I will close every app down first. Improvements here would be greatly appreciated for Maemo 5, and MeeGo.

The multi-tasking, IM and VoIP integration, and loopable desktops are killer features of Maemo/N900! Please do not lose them!

there is a thing you install that adds a button to the power button menu to switch between phone and tablet mode, basicly it enables or disables the celular modem

got that one mate, i think its the cell-modem-ui app (and is installed)

but we do not want to missed calls or SMS too. so getting another phone as my primary line is my option.

Don't the missed calls and offline SMS' reach you about as soon as you turn on phone mode again?

I keep a lot of Conversation windows open. A LOT. SMS and IM. I also keep 3 xterm windows, mediaplayer, email. I really wish we had the ability to re-organize the dashboard - or set it to group windows based on parent/child process.

Got no wig, but thanks for the feedback!