Yep, it's all about who's looking at it and what you compare it to. The scrolling issue, in my opinion, is totally just a matter of what you are used to. The N900 in those videos looks much more smooth than my N810. And the web page scrolling looks as good as my HTC Hero (Android 1.5). On the other hand, scrolling between the home screens looks quite laggy to me, certainly not up to my Android device's smoothness and in fact pretty bad-looking, to me. I've seen that in previous videos too...it does NOT look smooth when people move between the home screens. I hope they fix that, as flicking through home screens is the first thing anybody will probably do when they pick up the device for the first time. Not the best first impression if you come from Android/iPhone.

Anyway, had you shown those videos to me before I got my Hero phone, I would've said there's absolutely nothing wrong with them. Compared to the N810, they're a huge improvement. But as you see more of these new phones (iPhone, Androids etc.) expectations rise...it's only normal. Video smoothness etc. multimedia has never been exactly the strong point of Linux, anyway.

If slight lag in scrolling turns off people from this device then it just proves that the platoform is not quite ready for all mainstream users, those who are picky about these issue...and frankly, many of us already know that it's not quite finished and decided to skip getting this beta device and being furious at Nokia for its shortcomings anyway