I just played with a black N9 at a Vodacom store in Johannesburg, South Africa. They didn't have any in stock for sale, nobody seems to around here, but they were expecting to get them in around the first week of November.

As for price, I was given a rough estimate of R9,000 unlocked, which is around USD$1,150. I'll assume that's the 64GB model, but that's really rather steep. The guy I spoke with is going to e-mail me the correct pricing information when they get the phones in stock.

There was a Nokia representative there, talking with someone else at the store. It was his N9 that I was trying out. He kept glancing nervously at me to make sure I wasn't going to run off with his demo device.

There were N9 mockups at another store, Nashua Mobile, but no real N9s available for sale yet. They wouldn't sell them off-contract, anyway.