Brainstorm

To allow input in one-handed portrait mode usage, one would need an effective input method.

E.g. when using a portrait mode messaging client.

MMS support is missing from the N900/Maemo5.

This is a feature those of us with friends without push e-mail (and the likes) do quite enjoy on our current phones.

Related talk-thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=32129

Maemo5 does not support SyncML out of the box. SyncML is a standard used to synchronize clients with a SyncML server. There are open source server software (like Funambol provides) and a lot of clients for nearly every plattform as you can see here. The idea is to have also a solution to synchronize Contacts, calendar entries, tasks and notes (and maybe more stuff) from the N900 (Maemo5) to a SyncML server.

Services (free and paid) offering SyncML can be found here.

Thread in talk.maemo.org to discuss: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=37034

It would be great if the browser could also be used in portrait mode. Some pages just fit better that way. Also for one handed reading it would be better to hold the device in portrait mode.

Furthermore all of the competition supports it, users might be wondering why this is not the case here.

It would be nice if the N900's UI rotated no matter what app you used. While third party apps can stipulate a specific mode such as portrait or landscape, the UI should support it natively in all parts of the UI.

The N97 is a perfect example of a similarly configure device that supports ASR and can be used as a case study.