What should Nokia do?

Nokia should open it's eyes to new ideas. Reminds me of Nokia not designing flip phone several years ago

While I have been impressed by some of the early Android devices hitting the market, Nokia has a homerun with the N900. The N900 is a Maemo device which really blurs the lines between computing and mobility.

Usually a skeptic with respect to Nokia devices, this is the BEST handset experience I've ever had.

There are other things they can do besides jump on Android to improve their position. Because 'droid is a Linux variant, (as is Maemo) they can take a stand, use Nokia resources differentiate themselves with this platform on the high end.

Android is only barely a Linux variant. It uses part of the Linux kernel as its base, but all of the application runtimes work inside the Dalvik VM, which is basically a Java VM.

Maemo IS Linux, running a full Linux core with a custom finger friendly UI and PIM apps. Its basically little difference between an Ubuntu flavored distro and Maemo but the finger controls.

In fact, once Symbian is fully open source, what advantage would Android have over it? Symbian is the most robust and mature OS available for mobiles, and only the UI is it's problem. Once that is solved, there is nothing Nokia needs from Android. Symbian still has a ~50% market share. Android has, what, 5%? Do the math...