Nokia N97 review: a tale of two bloggers | Engadget

This review acts as a kind of coda to my recent posts about smartphone and my own recent purchase. In particular, I noticed this passage:

I had a fascinating conversation with Bhaskar Roy of Qik the other evening. As you might know, Qik is the revolutionary mobile platform that lets users stream video live from their phones, but what you might not know is that it got its start on S60, thanks largely to the platform’s openness and the availability of high-spec hardware. Qik’s available on a variety of platforms these days, but it turns out that the N97 is the one and only device — regardless of platform, manufacturer, whatever delineation you like — that currently allows them to capture near-HD widescreen video. Granted, a good 5 megapixel camera with so-called “nHD” 642 x 358 video recording capability at 30fps certainly helps, but Qik also found that S60 allowed them to interact directly with the N97’s DSP in ways that other platforms wouldn’t dream of allowing. Safety versus stability is a never-ending debate unto itself in the smartphone app world, and Nokia (certificate drama aside) generally chooses to trust its partners to develop the right software and its customers to install the right software more than others. I like that.

I like that, too.