Its a 1ghz snapdragon. Worth noting of course that the native speed of the n900 chip is 1ghz, its throttled for battery life (and one imagines heat). The 1gb of ram is 256mb + virtual as far as i understand it from a couple of articles. The screen real estate is nice i agree but way to much phone size (length and width) for my liking. Of course the real killer for me is the os. I am never going back to winblows mobile.