Look, if the RSS app is having these problems, it's not the device. Someone just didn't do proper asynchronous GTK multi-threading. There is a relatively simple fix. On an n8x0 using PyGTK I can run silky smooth while downloading content and updating widgets. These devices kick a*s with this sort of stuff. They just need to get a senior programmer assigned. And if this is a system wide issue with network apps, the same solution can be applied everywhere. I have C and Python code to make these types of problems go away. I'm confident this can be fixed in a timely fashion.