Yes, if the iPhone could do a full (usable/doesn't-suck) portait virtual keyboard, then so can Maemo.

But the iPhone can't.

Reasons to do T9:

1) more people are familiar with T9 or T9-style input than with qwerty thumb keyboards.

2) fewer buttons + similar screen area = bigger buttons = more accuracy than the crappy iPhone portrait virtual keyboard.

3) usable one handed -- even the beloved iPhone portrait qwerty requires two thumbs (and, doesn't the iPhone have a T9 mode, as well? if so, so much for the idea that Maemo doesn't need one if they have a qwerty one).

I'm missing the browser option, but since i've already seen screenshots of fennec in portrait mode, that's probably not an issue any more, right?

@SubCore,

It doesn't really matter to us, but consider the scores of users that will never change their browser (IE6 crowd).

}8^I~

Well, i think that all those apps should be available in portrait.
It's very important that Nokia anderstand that users will need portrait mode for those apps. There is always a moment that you can't use it in landscape, there is always one moment that portrait is the only issue, a moment that without it you can't use your mobile and that would be a pity to not have it on a such a great device.

Nokia, are you listening ?

My guess is that one of the reasons for the postponing the release date may have something to do with the implementation of portrait mode..... what say?

I don't get this... The Images app (how you view images) can be in landscape and portrait. But the camera?

If you want to take a photo in portrait, you hold the device in portrait -- just like a regular camera. If the camera had to switch to portrait mode, you'd still be taking your photo in landscape (because the view would rotate), but it'd be shrunk to fit in the portrait view.

Or, am I missing something?

Tim

I hope so much !

Please try reading the poll question and first message more carefully. The question is priority as obviously they have to work on them in SOME order. The alternative is to receive none of them until they are all ready, which I don't think is really what any portrait mode proponent wants.

This thread is a direct result of Nokia folks inquiring about priorities, so, they are listening.

Thus, in this thread, the question is not what Nokia can do for you, but what you can do for Nokia. Which would be filling out the poll.

It was postponed? (deep in project, haven't been reading news stuff this week)

i second that lol...