Mmm . . . I don't buy it, not in the least. Don't make the mistake of thinking your personal views are shared by the rest of the world.

Assuming they stick with anything that's close to the concept renders, it's gonna be uglier than sin—not anything that I'd be willing to be seen with in public (and I've heard the same sentiments from more than a few others). This alone is gonna have a big effect on its desirability to most people (as you can see with the much-less-eye-offensive, but still stylistically lacking, N800).

Now, despite its aesthetic deficiencies, is the hardware impressive? Sure—OMAP3 is a force to be reckoned with, the controls look great, and (assuming it actually works out) OpenGL will be a major win, but the software is another area where things fall down (at least when you're doing a direct comparison to the NITs). It's gonna ship with what amounts to a game loader, nothing more. So that basically eliminates any interest from real consumers (and a large amount of power users and developers, too). Sure, you can (maybe?) install Debian on it, but that's not really something the vast majority of people are interested (and, depending on what's required, capable of) doing.

So, what you've got is a fantastic, but horrifyingly ugly, piece of hardware with pretty decent gaming controls and software that only really appeals to hardcore emulator players—it really doesn't compete all that well with the NITs.

Either way, July is a long way off, and I'd like to see what Nokia has up their sleeves first.