mobiciti.com.au they usualy ship from HK and I suspect that N9 will be released in Asia first. I was in India couple of days ago and there are people awaiting N9 release, most of them dont give a damn about os, it should be a latest and great looking from Nokia.
You will be hard pressed to find any phone by Nokia that was not a Symbian phone that was announced and released quickly. That is not how Nokia rolls. They announce, delay... delay... then release. As I see it, the Nokia N9 is no different than any other release before it.