I think the new MIDs will be to Intel what the 770 was to Nokia - a first attempt, and there will be some good things but also some bad. Weight and power consumption with this first Intel attempt is almost certainly going to be a negative issue to those familiar with Nokia ARM designs, but with so many companies backing the Intel MID platform I expect them to be a big success at the first attempt, and they will only get better with Generation 2 and beyond.

A Nokia with an OMAP3 processor would be interesting later this year, and a multi-core ARM in 2009 could be stiff competition to x86! However I don't think the hardware is going to be the downfall of Nokia (unless they stuff up the video bandwidth again, and fail to improve the touchscreen responsiveness). No, the poor software stack - ie. continued dependence on closed source code and NDA hardware, no 3D or A2DP support, no PIM (unless Nokia benefit from x86 development, which is possible) - and mundane UI design (again x86/GNOME Hildon development may help here) will be their most obvious failing.