Was hoping for 1.7k - 1.8k-ish price tag

Hmmm.. it seems I have to go for telco bundle plan then ._.
(Better be Celcom, the only Telco that has signal at my housing area =.=)

Andy, will those apps written for Maemo5 work for N9?

No doubt apps can be added later but it can be a big problem if developers shy away. With Nokia producing limited units and not selling in major markets like U.S., U.K. and Germany will developers have the incentive to develop for Meego? Even if is a simple matter to port from Symbian Qt the crucial question is still, "Will they bother?"

I've been bitten before buying into Samsung bada's platform. There were great hopes initially that the app store will grow robustly but it failed to attract serious developers and the app store is mostly filled with themes and useless fart apps. After more than a year there is still no decent e-book reader, Skype, Whatsapp or Foursquares.

However N9 will be for those who look for quality apps rather than quantity. The pool of apps for N900 is quite encouraging.

Thank you wes c. Actually I thought N900 apps can run on N9 without porting?

Me too... but I got TOUCH it ONCE, didn't get to play/test it. I was planning to try it later when it's less crowded so I can have more time with it and also took some pictures, but didn't know the N9 left early,    hehe, too bad, have to wait for next chance 

Anyway, thanks for organizing and planning for such event, it's great as well as meeting the participants/members/friends in person.

Actually I was hoping to see people bringing working N900 with MeeGo CE 1.2 yesterday.Too bad I didn't any of them.
I've been testing MeeGo handset since v1.1.And I have to say the latest CE build was perfectly usable.I've even made couple of calls with mine.If you want stable version try the beta versions.The daily build is laggy sometimes.