Paul, this is an excellent review. The highlight of most debates about the N97 focuses on S60’s lack of UI flash, but that’s just a side-point in my view. Yes, I would like some more eye-candy, but overall S60 is a solid OS, and I’m glad you also see beyond this one issue.

My workflow is based around Google calendar/contacts etc (seamlessly synced on my n97 using Mail For Exchange), and Evernote – my current mobile solution is an N97 app called pixelpipe which will let me post to evernote (and pretty much any online storage system in the world), but it is clunky and it is painful knowing iPhone users have a neat dedicated Evernote app.

I think this is the difference between N97 and iPhone experiences – N97 can do all the stuff that iPhone can (and with its proper multitasking, probably more), but the Symbian way always seems more ‘work-around’ while the iPhone way is a clean-cut dedicated app.