My new (Central European) one arrived from Handtec today - all works great - no reboots - marvellous.
Strangely (unlike previous N9) it came with all the sample media, and it also went into the out-of-box experience on first boot, so probably no post-factory fiddling. Was all ready to flash it, but was no need - just did an OTA update to PR1.1. All previous issues: gone!