In my opinion the new Kindle more than makes up for these drawbacks with all its improvements — the new kindle page at Amazon discusses most of these and you can also refer to my Kindle 3 Review for an easy to understand list of pros and cons. (dealsagar.com)
Same here, basic kindle page turn is faster, I'd say faster enough that at the first few days of using paperwhite, I still keep the basic kindle response and frequently double click as I thought the the 1st page turn is not responding (blog.the-ebook-reader.com)