Without android or linux, you are again forced to pay for windows - why? Make the OS an option - should be a legal requirement.

No touchscreen? Again - whaaat? silly design decisions rule....didn't expect that from Nokia.

The HDMI is for the ION chipset model..graphics with grunt!

So Nokia joins Redmond in the use of the copier as a primary design tool. I seem to remember Apple making a big deal about making their laptop chassis by milling from a single block of aluminum. They called it Unibody. After my last experience with a Nokia Phone, I have to wonder how they did on the battery. On that phone, you had to replace the battery if you ever totally discharged. That phone was a pure piece of junk. I see little reason to think their computer is much better.

I alaready bought one. It is for my daughter, for the University, and I am also thinking in using it at my company in the meetings, to reduce the use of paper(mainly because paper is very expensive to archive). As a matter of fact I am trying that everyone has one in the company.
I like it. I bought a Toshiba netbook previously for half the price, but I had tu return it, because it didnt work.
The Nokia is in another division, very, very nice and enough for what I need.
The battery life is very useful to spend the whole day at work without having to carry the charger.
The connection is very good, and it works everywhere. It is very easy to change the size of the font, even the size of the screen display, and the speed is econugh.
I have another one from my company, it is again a Toshiba, and not a netbook, but a mini lap top, with a price of more than 2,000 euros. I have not ever been able to use it, because of different problems with connectivity, and althoug the Toshiba Ram, Hard Drive, etc is more powerful, I prefer the Nokia, that is cheaper, nicer and more portable.
But if you are thinking in having only one computer, I would recoommend that you buy a desktop.

It is only a matter of different opinions.

Sony Vaio X is a netbook, also, £1000+. More heavier, less battery. So there really is a market for premium netbooks.

http://www.i4u.com/article27461.html

£650 for a netbook, what? Aluminium and no fans, so? It's still a netbook with a poor screen.

£650 for something that is not very capable. This is purely a first run attempt. The next version will have touch screen or a better screen and be cheaper or similar price.

Gaming Netbook:
Can they make a gaming netbook? 10 inch screen, last gen mobile mid-range gaming gpu, dual core cpu should do it. I'd buy one for £400. Maybe even £500, but only if I could upgrade the cpu/ram/gpu/hdd.

I still remember them best for their excellent wellington boots.

So we have a 'booklet' that contains about £100 of low-end parts and the rest is spent on the case?

Overpriced..much?

Get a top spec Dell Inspiron 13Z instead for £600.

Not really, it's a far superior way of adding an HD display for using the netbook as computer at a desk.

Nokia has a very long and proven history of making computers.
They where called "Mikro Mikko" and of very good build. They also produced CRT terminals, including the first black and white one. They also represented Elliot, ICL and SCO Unix in Finland.
However. when they decided to putt all the eggs in one basket the coputer business was sold to ICL.
Last Christmas I bought a Asus and a Acer, well they are cheaper but the again they are already breaking up.
The keybords will not se an other year.
So, perhaps there are different ways to calculate the price.