A shop nearby had a black N9 to test. A few thoughts.

The design is pure in person, it's truely a beautiful phone. There were two details that just didn't fit: Black colour gathers finger prints. I presume lighter colours won't have this problem. Funnily enough I didn't notice any finger prints on the touchscreen itself which is usually quite smudged. Second problem was the usb port's cover, it looked just cheap. I've never had problems with dust so I would prefer just an open port. I presume it also needs to be opened and closed a lot to charge the battery, but it doesn't look like a durable piece. Hopefully Nokia has engineered it so that it is better than what it looks like. Due to the security things attached I didn't get to properly hold it in my hand.

Maybe I've seen one video too many how to swipe away but it just worked. Straight away it felt perfectly natural, no adaptation period. The phone had 20 or 30 programs open and it was still smooth and responsive. The programs that were on were some web browsers, calculator, camera and such but there was also Angry Birds and NFS. Each program loaded up instantly, though I wasn't really looking for lag either. Got a bit too excited there I think Anyhow, the "multitasking" view is truely a gem. Browser seemed fine, tried a few pages and they loaded up promtly. Events view was obviously empty so no comments on that. I would like to see some sort of subheadings that the user could place to the apps view because as of now, it's just a huge grid of icons.