The novelty for me i guess is multi touch, HDMI and dolby digital, and the aluminium unibody.

But i bet the open gl will be kinda useless seeing nokia never put much efforts on gaming (n-gage fails. hard.) and it isn't anything new either, nokia n93. n95, n95 8gb and the e90 all can support open gl 2.0, but look at the sorry state of apps that uses the dedicated graphic chip?

o_O my bad, hahah, but even if nokia really pushes out gaming on the nokia n8, it still can't beat apple which has already in the game ages ago. The open gl 2.0 probably just gives nokia fanboy a nerdgasm and probably limited to rendering 2d menus and browsers.

Joke? but still the sales and profit of the iphone far exceeds any smartphone in the market. People want simplicity nowadays, turn on phone, make some phone call, gaming on the go, listen to some music, surfing net in starbucks, thats all they want in a phone, and iphone is there to cater for their needs.

People dont give a damn about multitasking, nor tweaking the phone to the max, they just want a phone that does everything out of the box, and iphone suits them well enough.

Frankly i dont use multi task often enough, and i find multi tasking makes the phone laggy, my previous htc magic i have to press the kill task switch once a while because it makes the overall phone experience lag. Apple knows the original iphone and iphone 3g if implement multi tasking will end up the same way as windows become the hardware simply cannot support too much multi tasking, and people will start blaming for faulty software, think windows mobile. The 3GS will support multi tasking due to upgraded hardware.

Anyway if iphone is such a fail toy, microsoft wouldnt bother making their new wp7 the exact same thing as the iphone os.

Not an apple fanboy, but honestly most of the consumer would prefer iphone rather than other smartphone that have better specs and functionality because of the simplicity. Open box -> plug in sim card -> activate -> a working phone.

Good marketing gimmick by apple, i am young hip, i am a mac, old and nerdy/geeky, i am a pc. Need to say more? lol