The app updates you're seeing have nothing to do with the recent PR1.2 release.
If it's a telco branded phone you won't get it right away.
telco's can take forever to approve the appropriate fw, sometimes they never do.
Aside from that it's not rolled-out to every region at the same time.
So even if you had a unbranded (unlocked) N9, you'd still have to wait till it's in your region.
Do some searching on how to use navifirm...
Once you're familiar with it you may decide to manually flash/update.
Because if you don't do that, you may be waiting for one, two, three mths, or forever.
Also often the update appears sooner in NSU than it does via OTA.