I don't practically expect to ... but the recent article where a Nokia exec said that they'd be using Linux in more of their products gave me some hope that it wouldn't be too far away.

And, really, with today's Android demo, Nokia ought to be considering it a race. If they (google/android) end up releasing a quad-band GSM with WCDMA 1700 phone, 4-4.5" touch screen, with a side-slide QWERTY keyboard, ssh and vnc clients, PIM suite that syncs to Google apps (and is hopefully usable off-line), IMAP client, and Yahoo/AOL client (hopefully also with MSN and IRC support), and they do it before Nokia ports Maemo to their phones ... then it's very possible that I'd be jumping ship rather quickly. Add tri-band WCDMA (adding AT&T and Euro/Asian), and dual SIM cards... and I wont think twice if Nokia isn't even close to a Maemo phone delivery.