the iphone desktop does not switch from portrait to landscape.

that is all

For IM/SMS/EMAIL it is very simple, its just as i use my previous phone the E90
I get an incoming SMS i see it in portrait on the front screen, there i read it, then i decide ok i need to reply then i switch open the E90 and use the qwerty keyboard and the big internal screen for replying.

I would do the same for the N900, i read incoming stuff quickly in portrait mode, then when i reply i open the keyboard and switch to landscape.

I agree with you.> I'm tired of the "it's a mobile computer so it doesn't need xyz". It's a phone, let it go. People expect certain basic features from hand held devices and portrait mode is one of them.

I could be using a font bigger than yours.
I could write it in red.
I could call you a lot of not beautifull things.
But I will only tell you that your post is a old crap fanboy excuse.
You are three-four months later, that **** don't work a while ago.
Regards

Agree fully with rpgAmazon and a few other in this thread. Some people in this forum needs to lose their attitude!
"I don't need/use it" <> "It's not needed/ no one wants it/ shut up and go buy iPhone/android/S60/you-name-it/ program it yourself"

Please take out your head from the bush and look around little bit. You don't HAVE to defend everything that Nokia does/doesn't do. No one was "whining" when N8x0 didn't have cellular radio in it. That was to be expected because it was never mentioned/advertised either. But when they marketed N900, they DID mention about the GPS, navigation features and phone feature. Now there is no point in defending that the GPS and navigation is there BUT it has no turn-by-turn directions and voice instructions. It doesn't even remember your own home address if you need to go back there. You need to type it back every time. If you miss a turn on your route, you need to stop the car at the next gas station and re-program it all over. When you are selling something which falls in a certain category of devices, it’s quite OK to presume that the basic functionalities connected with that category of device are present in this device too. Imagine buying a car to find out that it doesn’t support the reverse gear. Of course there is a work around to a lot of things like making a big U turn or create an additional device that goes under your car and lifts it up and turns it around 180 degrees to make it face other way. This application called VertSMS is exactly such a “device” that the users have to build themselves to perform the basic function of writing SMS in portrait mode. I have been using the tablets for few years now and this is the first time that I’m really disappointed in the latest incarnation of the Maemo tablet. NOT because it there are things that it is too weak to do, but because there are things that it could bloody well do but still doesn’t do because Nokia was in a great hurry to put this device out in the market half raw! I feel like I have invested in a shiny new sports car that won’t go beyond 50 KM/hour because it will be “perhaps” supported after I’ve taken it for 5th servicing. This silence from Nokia about what WILL come and what WILL NOT come is the main reason why many of the users (even the faithful ones like me) are pissed off. Nokia has not commented at all about so many things that will calm people down:

if the portrait mode will be supported in the SMS or not
if the Maps will support the voice guided navigation or not
if the MMS will be made officially available or not
if the video calling will come to the Skype, GTalk, cellular calling or not.
if additional profiles, additional access points, half-way-decent application for unit conversion or currency conversion will come or not.

So many users on this forum are very eager to blame Symbian or android or even iPhone platforms for this or that reason. I know that those are not perfect platforms and N900 has a lot of things which makes it a superior platform. Damn it, that’s the reason most of us bought it. But when will Nokia unleash the full potential of this device? No matter how much I love this community and the devices from Nokia, I am sad that the majority of the tasks that Nokia should have performed in-house BEFORE the device was released are left on the shoulders of the un-paid developers. Those guys are doing it on the top of their “Normal” work/home life. If this platform is so-o “OPEN”, why not publish an API for using the keyboard of the phone application so that ossipena can just develop a small application which does the SMS part and let the “open” platform handle the rendering of the UI and other actions connected with the key-presses? Why do a lot of developers need to invent the wheel over and over again? There is a saying somewhere that goes something like this…. “when you point a finger at someone, remember that other three fingers are pointing at you”.

Yeap, everybody reading this forum for a few months is sick by now of listening the eternal tablet/phone discussion, in parallel to the "you should done better research / know what your are buying" fanboy speeches. Most of the members here are either developers or consumers, and both want to improve Maemo experience, otherwise we wouldn't be here. For those who were the smartest ones, did their research, and don't think N900 can be improved, just a question: why are you still reading these threads at all?

@Hagar, some of the statements I can answer based on informaiton from this forum and blog.ovi.com, although I do agree Nokia can do a better job communication their official position. IMHO some answers like the one about Ovi Maps are not "official" on talk.maemo.org just because of political issues. As a large company, Nokia has several different teams and the Maemo one can not comment about the work from the Ovi Team for example...

I've asked twice on blog.ovi.com and Nokia employees answered they are working on voice guided navigation for N900, just didn't say any estimated date to release it but that's not a surprise. Anyway, I am confident it will be available sometime...
Sources: http://blog.ovi.com/2010/03/02/new-p...bile/#comments
http://blog.ovi.com/2010/04/06/nokia...tion/#comments

@qgil and other sources from Nokia already answered this several times. No, it won't be officially available for N900, just by installing 3rd party products like fMMS.

The leaked version of PR1.2 already has video calling for Skype and GTalk, so it probably will be officially available. Regarding cellular video calling I am not sure, but I don't think so.... as far as I know people don't use it a lot (I just tested once on my N95 and never again), so Nokia may not officially support it like with MMS. Don't know if there is an official position about this tough.

I think that feature will be on the next firmware update, just because the iPad already has that implemented and their OS is practically the same.

The way they rearrange the icons is not graceful.

this is not pr1.2 .

its a bug
i experienced it once and made a video as well..
there are other videos about this..

one more thing: i think portrait mode on the N900 looks damn ugly!!
I've been trying the browser in portrait, then i realised how ugly it looks..

Browsing in portrait is ugly? WTF? So basically webpage looks is ugly or what the h are you trying to say?