It's a lot worse than any other phone I had so far. There are minimal distortions on a C7, for example, but you'd have to concentrate very hard in order to spot them... and you never notice them when you concentrate on what you actually do with your phone.

On the N9, the problems are so evident that they distract you from reading the text. It just feels broken.

Would it be some €200,- phone, I'd have returned it the first day and got myself another model. But the N9 is special for its operating system and that's why I bought it in the first place. I just cannot believe that they would invest so much effort in the devices overall style and then say that a broken display is just normal and it's OK that it cannot display black on white.