Mmmmmmm me want

[Painkiller]

I know I want that too, but that phone has one major turn away for me. It has a {bleep}y S60 OS I was hoping for maemo linux.

[Painkiller]

Chubbyrain wrote:
I admit that Nokia looks nice spec-wise, but I'm not a big fan of the slide out keyboard thingy. Plus I've used Windows mobile and really didn't care much for it. Not saying it's crap but just not for me.

So what does Windows Mobile have to do with Nokia phones?

[Painkiller]

Well I'm not a Apple hater. In fact I would like to own an iPhone, but currently I have no need for one, because my N95 still does the job. Main thing I hate about my phone is the oh so buggy S60 OS. That is also wy I'm sceptic about N97. It would have been an instant buy for me if it had Maemo linux running, but I guess there is still work to be done on it.

Otherwise the phone has pretty much the feature set I want.

qwerty keypad
5MP camera
GPS
Touchscreen
3G

[Painkiller]

The main point is that these gaps are only going to get bigger as new iPhone/iPod models are released. Perhaps a new iPhone will have a better bluetooth profile, increased resolution, etc. The criticism that Windows Mobile was difficult to develop for simply because there are so many varying devices available is likely to affect the iPhone/iPod too.

I doubt it will be that difficult. Apple can just slap different profiles to their dev tools which will allow easy development for all iPhone platforms. Clear advantage of not licensing your OS to third parties.