If you open the phone dialer application and select the contacts list from there, you can open contacts in portrait mode. Can you view the contacts in portrait mode when you open the contacts application directly, NOT through the phone dialer?

In the phone dialer way of opening contacts, when the contacts are in portrait mode, there is an alphabetical index on the right side column to quickly jump to a particular letter. This doesn't appear in the landscape mode. Is there a way to get it in landscape view of the contacts? In landscape view maybe they figured you can just hit the letter on the QWERTY and it jumps to that letter, but this requires that you slide out the QWERTY. It would be nice ot have the alphabetical tabs in landscape mode with the keyboard closed.

I have created a brainstorm for this.

You can vote for this here: http://maemo.org/community/brainstor..._address_book/

Sign up and vote for it.

Regards Markus

Tried to vote for it, it asked me to log in and my maemo.org username and password aren't working. What gives?

talk.maemo.org credentials are separate, IIRC. You are using your maemo.org credentials, right?
It is kind of annoying, but as far as I know, everything except t.m.o. uses the same credentials - it's the odd one out.

@JCH

jeam is right. You have to sign up again then you can vote - which I would appreicate a whole heap :-)

@jeam - you like the idea?

Regards Markus