The Nokia N97 is going to be the first touch screen Nokia device with an N-Gage client since the Nokia 5800 does nnot have, and probably won’t ever have one. I am very curious about the new touch screen N-Gage application, it will be a challenge for the creators of N-Gage to achieve an easy gameplay without a D-Pad and hardware buttons, or will the N97 use its full QWERTY keyboard to play N-Gage games? It is still unknown, but we bet it will be the hardware QWERTY keyboard since the N-Gage client running on the Nokia N97 looks exactly the same than the client of non-touchscreen devices, here are the screenshots:

Via: The SYMBIAN Blog