I fail to grasp this fascination with specs. Besides the fact that it is a marketing ploy that is working beautifully, I don't see why anyone should care. I'll explain. When shopping for a car, dealers and automotive journals talk about horsepower, 0-60 times and other nonsense. There's a very old saying that horsepower sells cars, torque wins races. Back to the phone side of things, MS specified (there's that word again) that all WP7 phones shall have at minimum...... That's what the OS needs to function properly. Beyond that, manufacturers can put in what they see fit to enhance the experience or just as a way to attract buyers. Perception, whether real or imagined, is a powerful tool that manufacturers of all industries prey on and they should be praised for their efforts. Can anyone tell me with a straight face that a 1.4 gHz processor is that much faster than a 1.2? Perhaps the device with the faster cpu has a bigger screen and requires a faster cpu just to keep up. Back in the Windows Mobile days a WM Standard phone with the same processor as a WM Professional phone would slaughter it in any benchmark tests. Duh, no touchscreen to power. My Treo Pro with a 416 mHz cpu would smoke my Samsung Epix with the faster processor on any app and especially loading web pages. Why? Maybe a smaller screen or Palm tweaked the 6.1 better than Samsung, who knows? The point is, specs should be viewed as a starting point for comparison, not an end-all. Hands-on use is the best indicator and side-by-side comparisons should at least involve similar devices. You cannot expect a Titan II with that 16 meg camera to load photos to FB as fast as a 8mp or 5mp phone. That would be like racing a Mustang GT vs. a Mustang GT pulling a boat.