diff -r 11d3954df52a -r 627c4a0fd0e7 src/hbwidgets/itemviews/hbabstractitemcontainer_p.cpp
--- a/src/hbwidgets/itemviews/hbabstractitemcontainer_p.cpp	Thu May 27 13:10:59 2010 +0300
+++ b/src/hbwidgets/itemviews/hbabstractitemcontainer_p.cpp	Fri Jun 11 13:58:22 2010 +0300
@@ -362,35 +362,29 @@
 HbAbstractViewItem* HbAbstractItemContainerPrivate::item(const QModelIndex &index) const
 {
     int itemCount = mItems.count();
-    for (int i = 0; i < itemCount; ++i) {
-        // This could use binary search as model indexes are in sorted.
-        if (mItems.at(i)->modelIndex() == index) {
-            return mItems.at(i);
-        }
-    }
-
-    // TODO: The lower (commented out) part of the code is an optimized version of the above.
-    // However, there are problems with TreeView's deep models concerning the optimized version.
-    // The optimized version should be fixed and taken into use later on.
+    if (index.isValid()) {
+        if (itemCount > 0) { 
+            HbModelIterator *iterator = mItemView->modelIterator();
+            int positionFirstIndex = iterator->indexPosition(mItems.first()->modelIndex());
 
-    /*
-    int itemCount = mItems.count();
-    if (itemCount > 0) {
-        if (index.isValid()) {
-            int itemIndex = mItemView->indexPosition(index) - mItemView->indexPosition(mItems.first()->modelIndex());
-            return mItems.value(itemIndex);
-        } else {
-            for (int i = 0; i < itemCount; ++i) {
-                // This could use binary search as model indexes are in sorted.
-                HbAbstractViewItem *item = mItems.at(i);
-                if (item->modelIndex() == index) {
+            // when new items are inserted, they will appear in the end of container before a model index is assigned to them
+            if (positionFirstIndex >= 0) {
+                int positionIndex = iterator->indexPosition(index);
+                HbAbstractViewItem *item = mItems.value(positionIndex - positionFirstIndex);
+                if (    item
+                    &&  item->modelIndex() == index) { 
                     return item;
                 }
             }
         }
+    } else {
+        // searching items e.g. removed from model 
+        for (int i = 0; i < itemCount; ++i) {
+            if (!mItems.at(i)->modelIndex().isValid()) {
+                return mItems.at(i);
+            }
+        }
     }
-    */
-
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1184,7 +1178,7 @@
             newSize.setWidth(d->mItemView->size().width());
         }
     }
-       
+
     resize(newSize);
 }