Its actually very good to read this news. It means less fragmentation indeed, reusage of code and more code tested widely, and more compatibility, while sticking on standards and definining standards together. Its something KDE and GNOME refused to do from start but are now learning to.

My first thought would be WiMAX and its succesor. But that is a niche, and the only Nokia product supporting that was quickly pulled off the market.

One should not forget that both Nokia's and Intel's core business are defined by their past while the present is in great flux. Nokia, for example, is not limited to producing cellphones. Intel, for example, does much more than merely desktop processors; they're just not market leader in these other segments. Heck... SSD, WiFi, Graphics Cards (licensed from VMware, but still open source drivers)...

So if you take that into account I don't see why "Nokia, Connecting People" cannot make a product which includes some of the above technology. Unlikely any time soon? Sure, but later we will see 'netbooks' or that type of 'power' (bit faster than current smartphones) with embedded processors and, 3D accelerated processors.

While you might say Atom currently sucks it is popular in netbook segment and its performance is accepted by the general public. From it goes up; not down. It also has its advantages (binary compatibility with x86-32; one of the reasons AMD64 won from Itanium), and you could say the same about older x86-32 processors. In 2 years, a lot can change. I, for one, never imagined [i]Nokia[i] picking up the ball Sharp left.