I doubt it is going to be Symbian. Ito is going to be Maemo. Nokia is working on new version of Maemo (Maemo 5) that supports OMAP3 ARM based CPU. I think both Ubuntu and Maemo are Debian derived.

I currently use old Nokia N800 internet tablet and I like it a lot. N800 uses older Maemo 4. It is grat for web surfing, IM, e-mail, divx watching. There is even a port of torrent client. Basicaly you can cross compile every linux app for Maemo.

I look forward to new netbook from nokia. It is going to be intersting device.

No way in hell are they going to use Symbian. They already have an OS that is used on "almost-netbooks", namely Maemo. Symbian ecosystem lacks pretty much everything users expect from netbooks, including a shell, customizability, track record on non-phones, third party software, upgrade system

Whereas with Maemo, they can just basically throw it out to market.

Personally, I'd rather see them just adding maemo desktop components over a standard Ubuntu distro though (as opposed to having a debian-derivative custom distro)

I would like to see an up to date version of the Psion Series 5mx or 7. They were beautiful. (Well the 5 was)

A Symbian/ARM based netbook could be really usefull now Nokia is porting the QT framework to Symbian. Could we see KDE and all the k apps running on this device?

I really would love to see an arm based netbook, like an oversized smartphone with all day runtime.