I think it's a bit cheeky for the Chinese firm to use Maemo, unless they are in partnership with Nokia and that the two firms work together rather than against each other. If they bring more devices to market and somehow avoid fragmenting the Maemo platform and concept, I'm all for it - more competition, more developers, more software, better products.

A UMPC device with built in GPS and mobile phone functionality running Maemo may have legs, although I suspect I'll take the smaller/lighter Nokia device for the time being. Built in GPS would be nice - maybe in the N900? - but I prefer having the mobile phone functionality in my mobile phone, and not in the tablet.

I vote this as a desirable move (if true) so long as the Chinese firm contributes to the software platform in a positive way. Maybe the Maemo platform will become that little bit more hardware agnostic, the very issue which blighted the transition from 770 to N800.