Rafe Blandford will be reporting back in detail from Nokia World over the next few days, but in the meantime, watching the coverage across the Internet of the new Nokia N97, Ewan's apprehensive that there's a fight brewing now that the Nseries has a touch champion and that the battle field is becoming more level.

"For all the talk about positioning, road-maps of products, and filling in the different sectors of the value chain for all consumers, the announcement of the Nokia N97 is going to be perceived by many as the start of the latest smartphone war. The main players now all have devices at roughly similar price points, with roughly similar specs and features, and each having their own quirks which are either (a) the thing that makes device A better than device B, or (b) cripples device A and why didn't the manufacturer recognise this?"

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