My impression as a fairly new 770 owner is that a lot of the alleged slowness on the 770 could be alleviated by a user interface that gave more instant feedback about what it was doing. This is why Minimo feels much faster to me than Opera (though Minimo's not quite ready for production use).

I think many of the issues we see today are because apps have been quickly ported from their desktop equivalents, which haven't had to bother with the "Please wait, loading" kind of dialogs, because it's that much faster in the PC environment. And of course the ports have not been fully optimized for the 770 CPU. But additionally the core "launcher" for the 770 is poor IMHO. Clicking on widgets should give you immediate feedback, and in most cases it just doesn't.

This is not about x86 vs. ARM -- I have used ARM-based devices that were responsive, and it's down to the UI. PalmOS 5 is a good example of an environment that is focused on quick response to user input.

If Nokia and the dev community can solve this perception problem they will have a winner.

Wesley