I know N9 is smooth and I absolutely love it but there are lags and on top recent chips would have been able to handle all sorts of HD vids and even capture full HD vids etc hence might have helped reduce limitations. I had to accept whatever it has now for I fell in luv with it at first sight so I can soothe my mind with all these higher speed cpus being battery hungry things but I definitely wouldn't prefer 2 yrs old chip to latest ones.