Nokia will not put all its eggs in one basket and hence its choice of technology on the Netbook category of products. On the processor sides it will have both arm holdings as wel as Intel Atom and likewise on the software side it will offer windows 7 on atom based netbooks and perhaps linux on the arm based netbook. On the linux side they already have a smartphone now ..so its interesting times ahead.

let the best technology (cost effective) win.

second time i've come across theinquirer after getting my news from http://www.smartbook.asia - thanks for the scoup i i'm pretty sure that despite how cheap it is, it will still be a home run for a lot of mobile users

ARM does run Windows OS, more like Windows CE. It can also run on Linux too. ARM has been around for a long time. What CPU do you think powered many hot selling PDA's and phones, certanily not Atom or anything else X86 based.

This won't last - as soon as Intel does what it swears in court that it doesn't do (lean on their customers for exclusivity) but also promises to stop doing - Nokia will drop the ARM like a wet bag of cement.

HB

ARM: It doesn't run the Windows OS that Ma and Pa Kettle are expecting.

ARM: Cheaper to buy, more power efficient and has a sane instruction set. BSD and Linux Distros as well as Android and pretty much all mobile software is targeted at ARM, it was only a matter of time.