Right now its NOKIA N900. I am thinking of
Getting N9, but I don't think it will compete with the iPhone for the every day ease of use. I have always used nokia phones in the past and have no desire to change from nokia to others. Apple and nokia have superior designs. However, nokia lost the OS and design war to Apple. The war is over and N9 will not change that. Not radical enough to make a dent.

It should also be available carrier-free.

An even lesser share, HTC above them, not below; LG looking to overtake their share.

That's what I suspect will happen in the near future. Right now, Apple and Samsung are shooting to the top, RIM is shooting downward, same for Nokia.

So what's different? About a 10% less share for Nokia.

Browser doesn't support Google+ very well.

Any other suggestions?

I the price right?
There is a website in Australia which is now quoting prices for N9
"
Nokia N9 64GB

Regular Price: $999.00

Sale Price: $749.00
Pre Order
"

And some description
"The MeeGo 1.2 iteration on the Nokia N9 is a real departure from the maddening confusion of Symbian, with the processor, graphics card and 1GB of RAM all working together to deliver a fluid response under the finger."

And the site is?

Is that that exceltek site? Or something like that I think it was.
Had a look at their site the other day (someone posted it)
At that time they only had the 16GB, and IIRC is was $899!
$749's okay'ish for the 64GB... Who's the retailer?

*edit*
Musn't be exceltek, they still have their crazily priced 16GB:
http://www.exeltek.com.au/advanced_s...page=1&sort=3d

I am looking forward to iPhone 5. Got used to iPhone VKB, so no need for HKB. will get N9 but will wait for few months to see what inherent problems it comes with.

I'm looking forward to how well it compares all-up to iP4...
If it does better in most detailed/impartial reviews, then I see few huge reasons not to get it.*

Everything I've read suggests iP5's biggest improvements will be in software.
And that hardware (compared to previous years) will be only marginally improved.
Many pundits are saying the big hardware changes are coming approx. May 2012.
But at the same time....
The software improvements will apparently be among the best we've seen for iOS.

So all-up by the time we get to iP5, there's a pretty strong probability that:

1) It'll be better hardware-wise, all-up
(There'll of course be some areas that are weaker, but all-up)
2) It'll be somewhere between worse & slightly better software-wise, all-up
(That's not factoring-in Apple's online services/apps/music etc.)

Purely guesstimations of course, as we've few "facts" about iP5, particularly WRT hardware.
But assuming it's not hugely better in those two areas....
Then that won't be enough for me to buy an iP5, instead of the N9.

I'll probably get iP5's successor next year though, & maybe a new iTouch in the interim.
But only after I've bought a new Android handset, & my 1st WP handset.**
iOS devices are mostly what I've owned over the years...

*apart from some of the "minor" issues we've discussed
**I doubt I'll get a Nokia WP handset.

By the time the N9 is available, it will be directly compared to the iPhone 5, not the iPhone 4 - an 18 month old phone.