The Samsung 8910 also has an OLED screen, don't know if it is expensive or not. OLED looks MUCH better in-doors, but the OLED on the samsung is horrible outdoors. Usability is my main concern, so I hope Nokia wil use a good out-door-readable screen, so that probably would be a transflective LCD screen of some kind.

I think we will have to see. I currently do not see any advantage of Maemo over Ubuntu, OpenSuse or other established distribution ON NETBOOKS. But the disadvantage of Meamo is huge. Ubuntu has a very large and helpful community for example.
A portable tablet/phone is a very different form factor and needs a different interface, so a tailored distro makes sense. Also there is no large established distribution in the mobile space yet. So Maemo for mobiles makes a lot of sense.

True, but the Open source developer community is large compared to the current smartphone developer communities for any platform (WinMo, S60, even iPhone). And they have their own business models regardless of the Maemo development / success.
I think Maemo will become more of a tool that is useful for developers rather than a platform that needs to make a profit on its own. It may be more developer/producer oriented, but it is also a lot more powerful because of it. I think that is what will make the platform grow faster than anything we've seen yet.
For most nomal people (not the gadget fanbase) if they need to buy an expensive phone, they want a phone that is most useful for them. That is why email-centered Blackberries are so popular and the Nokia camera phones or the webbrowsing iphone. They all do something extremely well.
A developer oriented platform provides the power to users to use the device for the things THEY find useful.


I don't know. I haven't figured out how to install/use ovi on my Nokia 5800, and I don't see the point yet.
Linux has one of the nicest software distribution methods with the repositories. I think that adding a second way to install software using something like OVI would only confuse users.