Yes, I know that you can't assess the performance of two phones, running different OSes, by looking at the spec sheet. However, on paper the SGII blows the N9 out of the water, on processor as well as other stuff (HDMI out, screen size, microsd slot etc), plus of course the iphone 5 will probably have a dual-core CPU. The current marketing from all the heavy hitters and techblogs is that more cores=better phones, no ifs or buts. The pre3 was heavily criticized for having a punny 1.4ghz single core CPU! I believe that the ability of the N9 to run code without the java runtime and its 1gb of ram more than offsets the one-core CPU. But if you say that to a non-savvy buyer it will sound like you're making excuses, as not a lot even know what "ram" is, let alone the difference between Qt and Java running on a VM. It's the reason car automakers can sell crap cars with hillariously overpowered engines that the chassis can't possibly utilize. From my experience, casual consumers latch on a single spec, and the bigger it is the better.