Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki has put the smackdown on Apple in an interview with VentureBeat. Well, kind of. “For the basic functionality, we are beating iPhone hands-down today with our NSeries products,” he says.

“We have a big jump to take in usability to make it really user-friendly. If you compare an N95 with the iPhone, we have a lot more features. Not all of them are easy for the normal consumer. You have to be a geek to make use of them. But we are taking quantum leaps to get better usability, and we will have many applications.”

The question is whether Nokia can truly deliver a phone more usable than the iPhone, though - its NSeries phones have been more about cramming as many features in as possible, as Vanjoki admits.