N900 x i-phone 3Gs 32Gb - real competition or just...

Hi, I’m just a guy looking for answers beforehand to a new acquisition, I’ve sent this"e-mail" to Nokia support and up to now, no answer at all, I don’t know if it is a "taboo", but as consumer at least I would like to understand those points, and maybe here is the place to get the answers...
See my questions below:
“Dear Nokia,
About 2 months from now, I plan to buy a new mobile (my actual contract is expiring and I’m intend to have a new Smartphone).
I’ve been reading forums, magazines, etc. to actually have the best available Smartphone from today, and up to now, my intentions are strongly focus at the new N900 or the Apple iphone 32Gs.
Based onthe hardware and innovations, I would have no doubt to choose the N900, but a few things are really pulling me back to the new Apple i-phone, I will explain in detail:
1)   Today I have a 6110 Navigator, I do like a lot this mobile, simple, practical and with a great built in GPS but unfortunately all the programs and advantages available for this model today are related to PC, but I have a Macbook and the only software available for Mac is the „Nokia Multimedia Transfer“, to be honest it is almost nothing, just like one simple internet explorer.
2)   The reviews about N900 did not show up to now any „Mac friendly“ environment, I do understand that in percentage probably are more PC than Macs, but I do not believe that you would „ignore“ the big share available to be get from the Mac users.
3)   What about the applications? Why up to today the OVI store is more „promising“ than reality? It is really frustrating to think about buy this kind of machine with a big limitation in this field, really.
4)   The only thing that I would choose today the i-phone would be the full compatibility with my Mac (off course) and the tons of free or cheap applications available, but it is really frustrating to think that with this I would never be able to do a simple video conference via standard network or via the built in Skype, like the N900 does.
So, my intention with this e-mail is to have some feedback from your side, if the customer is the importance of your company (connecting people) I would like to feel part of it, and of course with a good feedback make-up my mind at once to buy the N900, otherwise I will be „obliged“ to go to the i-phone.
Thank you for your time and I hope I get this feedback someday before those 2 months...
Have a niceday,
Clayton”

I have the N97 and the N900. I was a little disappointed at these phones when they first came out had lots of issues. The N97 seems now to be working fine but is not as user friendly as the iphone with respect to the touch screen and apps. The advantage of N97 is that it has a key board same with the N900.
My experience with N900:
The N900 has less that 6hrs battery life on normal use without internet. Its email program takes a long time to down load emails and to refresh so that you can see them. There is no option for headers only. There is no voice dialing. No Mac iSync support. They have left out "Canada English" in their regional setting but have "Canada French". Scrolling within the apps is not smooth. There are not that many apps yet.
So there are many things like these that need to be sorted out. Basically it is a work in progress. I was surprised how they launched a product which is not complete in its basic functionality.
The basic idea of the N900 is great but product is yet to deliver the hype, I am hoping that Nokia will come through eventually. My advice is to wait until they come out with the next update which should resolve most of the issues.

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