As mentioned, it's a lower end machine. While it's not exactly the snappiest device in the world, I don't feel it's much slower than the PPC phone I have.

Video with a bunch of motion can be a bit jerky, or that's my experience anyway with creating some video files for the device.

What is the intent of buying the device?

I'm sure future firmware updates will resolve some issues as well as Nokia fix issues and continue to optimize the code.

Just my two cents for what it's worth. (Maybe not even worth that much)