What does Palm bring to Nokia? A customer base yes, which is something Nokia seem to be losing right now in North America. But does it bring any worthwhile technology to Nokia? I can't think of anything that Nokia doesn't have already.

Palm failed miserably to advance their OS platform over the last 3 to 4 years, suggesting there are major problems. They eventually sold the OS to Access over a year ago who are still some way from developing a Linux version, and in fact Palm are also a WinCE licencee (will Nokia be interested in this part of their business - I hope not!) Nokia already has a very usable Linux mobile platform - maybe Maemo can be ported to Palm devices...

Perhaps the Palm PDA experience and knowledge within Palm could be useful to Nokia, but I really wouldn't value Palm at anything north of $250m (I've seen estimates of $1.3b!) - IMHO the company has way too much unwanted baggage to justify a higher price.