Ovi by Nokia comes with N97

I am not so interested about anything related to competition between Apple with Microsoft, Apple with Nokia, Apple with everyone. Apple is not the oldest in PC industry and just came into mobile phones, but obviously it is where the following trends come from. Every company can have their own genius engineers bring in the superb functionality but their innovation lose to Apple. In case of N97, I just perceived it as an excellent successor of Nokia's evolution 5800XpressMusic at first but now it seems to be intentionally aimed for iPhone. At roughly very close period, Nokia's -another breakthrough- Ovi Store is launched -in a few weeks from now- targeted to Apple's App Store.

App Store is surely a huge hit for any mobile phone developers as it reached over 1 billion in less than 1 year!! Do remember that they just put the applications tied-in iPhone+iTouch, which are also new compared to a decade age of other mobile phone brands. For this Ovi, same as Apple, Nokia will get 30% of the selling revenues from its online store.

I never argued that iPhone has now ruled the mobile industry. Nokia's first touchscreen 5800 was not the first follower of iPhone. By the end of last year, SE's X1 was like a massive buzz and shortyly after the promotion got slower, Nokia 5800 ads are everywhere.

That's an attractive promotion to see other tie-ins with Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn etc. Let's see whether its social network functionalities can beat iPhone :)

Great promotion, and hopes it's not just merely a promo.



Looking at functionalities, its screen looks better than iPhone, especially in resolution, though personally I still give two thumbs up for SE X1. QWERTY keyboard, I thought, is just a choice. Some people like me hate touchscreen keyboard. Its memory is just a crazy surprise but please think twice, is it really needed? Seeing its memory, yes, iPhone's memory is really one of the main setbacks. For camera it's better than iPhone but not the best one, and obviously even 2-3 MP is already much more than enough for mobile phone, except you cannot use it.

Wondering why everyone calls it iPhone's Killer, let's see whether it will :)

The important part actually should go to the touch screen which makes your price, makes the main intention, promotion, and everything. How responsive it is would then be the measurement and as Nokia's previous products, we should see how often this new N-series got crashed against iPhone, if you want to compare, which seems to be much more reliable.