Contributor Fanboy over at the Nokia Blog, listed 5 reasons not to buy the Nokia N97. First of all, there are 5 reasons why the N97 will be a fantastic flagship, which are as follows:

1. It is an N-Series flagship, with all the hardware goodness of an N9x
2. It is the touchscreen flagship, seriously trumping the 5800 XpressMusic in all departments
3. It will be The Flagship Ovi Device, the first, where the Ovi experience will work out-of-the-box
4. It is timed for the revival of the S60 development community with Qt for S60
5. It is the next N-Gage flagship device

These are good reasons to buy the N97, I’m really looking forward to trying this device. Nokia has always surprised its customers with its flagship due to the software, hardware, and connectivity features. However, there have been some dissapointments too, like the N96 battery (which I’ll be discussing in the near future), and long response times.

Below are some reasons NOT to buy the Nokia N97 as posted on the Nokia Blog:

1. If it will not have an App Store, where you can buy 3rd party apps and download Nokia software for free (with a minimum of 100 apps)
2. If it will not have Ovi (Nokia) account integrated across all parts of the firmware with single sign on
3. If the battery will not make it through the day with a sample usage of all features (music, video, web, GPS, calls, messaging, N-Gage)
4. If the Ovi Suite will not been ported to Qt and running on Windows, X11 and Mac
5. If all parts of the Ovi web service will not become platform-independent (e.g. Music Store available on Macs, Maps 3 available without plugin)

As you can see, some of the issues come from older Nseries flagships, such as the battery lasting for more than one day and the Nokia App store. Which has been rumored to be presented next week at the MWC in Barcelona.

What do you think? Do you want to buy the Nokia N97 or are you considering other options? If you have any more reasons to buy/ not to buy the Nokia N97 please head on to our forum and let us know. Some people believe that it will be released tomorrow, however, the hottest rumor points us to the March 31st release date. We don’t have to wait so much to have this phone right with us.

[via:The Nokia Blog]