You can always rely on Nokia's Anssi Vanjoki for a good quote. Such is the case with his interview with VentureBeat yesterday.

"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."

It's trademark bullishness from Vanjoki, but also an admission that Nokia has much to do on the usability front.

The N95 is indeed more powerful than the iPhone in many respects, but it's not as easy to use, especially if you don't know your way around Series 60.

Vanjoki doesn't say too much in the interview about N-Gage, other than explaining what it is, and saying "There is a very loyal following for the games, but things like the Ovi Store will really give a boost for games."

Meanwhile, in a seperate interview, Vanjoki criticised the WiMax mobile broadband standard, saying it will lose out to the rival LTE technology in the long-term.

"I don’t think the future is very promising [for WiMax]. This is a classic example of industry standards clashing, and somebody comes out as the winner and somebody has to lose. Betamax was there for a long time, but VHS dominated the market. I see exactly the same thing happening here," he said.

"It’s my prediction that by 2015, we will have an LTE network that will cover most of the important places in the world and that will give us the coverage and capacity we need."

Several LTE demos at the Mobile World Congress show in February involved multiplayer games, so developers will be following its progress carefully.