Reasons to buy the Nokia N97
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)
What do you think about it? Let us know. Post your responses.