This is promising, but, and it's a big but, this is Nokia we are talking about here.

My take on the whole Elop strategy was that he was effectively outsourcing Nokia OS and software to Microsoft and Accenture, mainly cos, being honest, Nokia made amazing hardware, but struggled to deliver software and updates.

If Nokia do start pushing devices again with linux inside and swipe, on low to mid end phones, to compete with some of the lower end android devices, then that could be very exciting, especially if they are as hackable as the Maemo and Meego devices.