While, now I am more bleak I failed to win one of these 2 weeks ago when Nokia ran a global competition called ‘Search for N’ and they gave away 10 N97′s here in South Africa.

One of the main features of the phone besides the touch screen and qwerty keyboard is its new ability to display widgets on its home screen, with the launch of the phone and the recent Ovi store for Nokia there is a Facebook App to display the power of the widget and what the N97 can do. Take a look at this video

And here is another video of its ‘comeback’

The N97 launched just before the Palm Pre came out and the new Apple iPhone 3G S, its going to be interesting to see which phone does the best as all 3 are looking pretty good.

Facebook, just the word is been used everything to suddenly make everything online hip and cool or at least that is what the big corporates are thinking as they slowly wake up to the Web 2.0 social scene.

And in order to appear that they are with it they are starting to try make everything work with Facebook and especially with your mobile phone. Apparently Nokia and Facebook are in heavy talks with creating more interactivity between Nokia users and Facebook.

Nokia has to face the decision to we try use our vast user base and create our own social network or do we jump on board with Facebook?

I certainly don’t think they should create another new social network and that they should use Facebook like Apple and Blackberry are doing. Soon when going through your contacts on your phone you’ll be able to see who is online etc. and start a chat with them – I like that idea.

BUT and for me this is a big BUT:

Is Facebook going to be the new Microsoft?

And this question is with reference to how Microsoft was so ‘cool’ back in the early nineties and started to bundle everything together and eventually got slapped with law suits and paid millions and millions in fines.

If I was from My Space or Orkut I would be upset and cry FOWL when all these cellphones start coming out working so closely with Facebook. This time it won’t be Facebook/Microsoft that could get fined but rather the cellular companies like Nokia and Apple.

If they don’t give their users the option of selecting which Social Engine they would like to connect to when using their phone it could be seen as creating a monopoly for Facebook. If I was Facebook I would be pushing hard to strike up these deals with the phone companies as fast as possible.