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Could Google's Android operating system make its way to the iPhone, too? Maybe.

I guess it was really just a matter of time until it happened, but thanks to PlanetBeing, an industrious member of the iPhone Dev Team, Linux is running on an iPhone.

The iPhone will get more competition with the Nokia N97. This stylish touchscreen phone comes with a QWERTY keyboard that slides out from beneath the screen.

After months of waiting, Nokia finally announced the N97, the company's second (unreleased) device to challenge the iPhone and revive to the N-series to their former glory. With a 3.5" touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera and 32GB of memory, the N97 is one phone worth waiting for in the New Year.

Nokia has finally delivered a smartphone handset which easily rivals the iPhone 3G. On paper, the specs are amazing. Let's take a closer look, with what we know so far, and see whether it's an iPhone killer or not. Should Apple be worried?

Look & Feel

The Nokia N97 measures 117.2 (L) x 55.3 (W) x 15.9mm (D) compared to the iPhone 3G's 115.5 (H) x 62.1 (W) x 12.3mm (D); the N97 weighs 150g compared to the iPhone 3G's 133g. All pretty similar. The N97 obviously has the slide out QWERTY keyboard and features a tilting touchscreen, whereas the iPhone 3G is a single, static unit.

Screen

The iPhone 3G's 320 x 480 3:2 ratio screen is eclipsed by the Nokia N97's true widescreen (16:9) 640 x 360 pixels. Both measure 3.5 inches diagonally. Nokia definitely wins on this one, as not only will TV/DVD based widescreen movies fill the whole screen, but there's more resolution...

Nokia has today announced the N97, its latest smartphone / mobile computer (use whichever term you prefer). It features an iPhone-rivalling 3.5-inch slide-and-tilt touchscreen plus a full QWERTY keyboard, multiple sensors, A-GPS with an electronic compass, Nokia Maps and Ovi, up to 48GB of storage (32GB onboard), Nokia Music Store support, five megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss Tesssar lens and dual LED camera flash/video light, DVD-quality video capture, and HSDPA / Wi-Fi connections...

They're funny things, vowels. Well, funny until we have to deal with speech recognition technology -- as complaints about a new iPhone application's inability to recognize British accents have highlighted. There's nothing more likely to wipe the smile off your face than sitting in public, trying to communicate with a machine unprepared to meet you even halfway.