I went to buy an N9, but got a Galaxy Nexus instead of it, mainly because of the fact that a single-core phone with a smaller screen is more expensive than an OMAP4460, 4.65" HD Super AMOLED with a STOCK Android 4.0.4 build. I immediately unlocked the bootloader/rooted it, and installed the Trinity 512MHz GPU kernel OC'ing to 1.67GHz.
The thing feels like a rocket ship within your hands.