I'm pretty sure I understand what's going on here. Bad connection + software that your phone/it doesn't like + software that the computer can't handle. Sounds like it's time to get off the dialup and AMD K6 and move to faster more expensive things. Even though that's the antithesis to the N900, it's probably equally justifiable to your frustration. I should know. When your bandwidth is so saturated that it becomes slightly faster than a single ISDN line, you don't usually have the bandwidth to be reading all the important stuff either.

THAT is the real frustration and that's the problem. There is no meaningful pause here, you're simply killing yourself with each delayed gesture. Not cool. :/