Why I will probably never buy an iPhone

As some of you know, I recently acquired a new phone, the Nokia N97 mini. After spending about a week with it, I'm still very content with it. It has all I need, and I challenge the iPhone fanboys out there to match the setup that I have without leaping to their app-store and shelling out more cash than I have. At the moment I have the following apps going on my n97:

• The Nokia Communities app (beta), provides me with Facebook and Twitter on my phone (free)
• Nimbuzz to provide chat functionality for facebook, hyves, msn and gtalk (free)
• Putty for S60 (with Touch UI) for secure shell (and inside that ssh session I usually run irssi) (free)
• Exchange plugin from Nokia (free)
• Built-in media player for music and podcasts (free)

And it all runs smooth without draining the battery too much. My charge cycle is about once every two days, more if I use the device more extensively. Yes it is online all the time.

Now, the iPhone fanboys are likely to shoot the crap out of this list, but they should examine their own situation. Apple is controlling everything about their device (let's put aside the jailbreak argument, since that's a legal grey area). Symbian is open (heck, it's even open source as of not so long ago), and you have absolute freedom in what you put on your device (yeah, apps need to be signed, but you can easily do that yourself when something is unsigned). That alone is one of the main reasons why I will probably never buy an iPhone. And my n97 mini does all that I want/need, and it's a very nice device to tinker with.