A lot was mentioned about how this phone will automatically switch to landscape mode when you open up the slider. That works fine. The problem for me is that there are times when I had the phone in landscape mode already before opening the slider. I open up the slider and nothing happens (good), but when I close the slider it forces me back to portrait mode, whereas I'd prefer that it returned me to the last mode I was in before opening the slider.

I have to say that I'm finding myself not particularly interested in using this device in portrait mode much at all, and the switch from portrait to landscape isn't instantaneous like with a Palm device.

Here's another idea I had...Rather than do anything with the orientation, I'm wondering if I might like for the device to automatically go into sleep mode when I shut the slider. I'm finding that this phone works its best when the slider is open and you have full access to the thumbboard because the thumbboard isn't just useful for composing text but also for triggering shortcuts in menus, etc.