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Take a look at this picture of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic resting on its DT-29 stand, what’s wrong in this picture? The 5800 XpressMusic sports a built-in accelerometer which allows it to seamlessly switch the screen orientation in all applications. Strangely the Home Screen doesn’t get any accelerometer love, as the screen  stays in portrait mode when the device is resting in landscape mode. Judging by the included stand and the wide landscape-oriented screen it’s clear that 5800 will spends a good amount of time resting in landscape mode. But when you do return to the Home Screen your faced with this. The screen strangely stays in portrait mode, almost pushing you to awkwardly turn your head to the side and to see what’s going on. Even worse is the fact that we have a 3.2” screen and yet we only get 4(!) customizable icons to choose from. The unused space could comfortably fit at least another row of 4 icons. Better yet would be that amazing widget based Home Screen found on the N97. Nokia firmware wizard, please do your magic in the next available firmware.