That was not even a review. It was a 1st impression article 

WP didn't have recently used list right? Anyway, as previous I mentioned, it's not serious but will be a nice improvement feature; If somehow so happen you have writing a document or maybe SMS, and the app got close because you didn't notice there was already 5 apps running then it can be frustrating and not a nice experience.
I'm not sure if it will kill the word app or SMS, as I notice, it won't kill off my IE no matter how many apps I open, it will close other app, IE will be in priority and will not be closed. So this can consider as a positive thing.
It will close Office app, but not sure if you have words/excel/powerpoint running, will it close, need to test it.

Yea, that's what I meant about Maemo/MeeGo, they have no limit, so the user needs to be educated and aware. One may argue this can cause problem... well, as I said before, software is flexible, they can actually add a option in settings, allow how many apps to run and what to do if user try to run more app, what to do when an app is not responding or consuming a lot of memory, and so on. They can set by default the recommended and the user can customize it... Software is all about how being creative and making it flexible.
True, we don't know. Just saying that it'll be nice to have. There's no problem with 512MB, it's running smoothly and well, but it's just a "nice to have".

I know you've mentioned it's not based on Windows Mobile. As a smartphone OS, or experience they had, it's like a standard feature or common feature used by many. It's only thanks to Apple, they set new standards and people starts to try to follow it (I highly suspect the management just follow blindly because it's famous).

Many of the standard feature or commonly use, known feature, especially from their past experience, it "should" be there, moreover as a smartphone. Not providing them just basically means the same, and it will "affect" many users, especially their previous Windows Mobile users, and now partnership with Nokia, the Symbian users.
It's a simple thing, and it should be added in and imagine this:
If Windows Phone OS have all these "basic" commonly used and "sort of" standard feature; What do you think Windows Phone will be today?
1. We won't be having these discussion on the restriction and limitation.
2. Symbian users have smoother and less problem in transition/change.
3. Less complains from users, good for both Nokia and Microsoft.
Take note, I didn't say none, but less; There won't be a perfect device, sure will have customer that dislike or doesn't suit, but the key point here is, to cater for more customer and reduce the complains, more satisfied customers; which in current case, I've repeated many times, is easily solved, but it's just a mere "management decisions".

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Added on March 21, 2012, 6:32 pm
Not sure what she will write, but in my opinion, there's no need to ditch a product; Reviewers should highlight the "drawbacks" of the device and help to "raise awareness" to the manufacturer in CONSTRUCTIVE ways. Let them how what is the impact, the severity and how it can be easily solved or avoided.

Some people may look at what I write as a negative point, but if they read carefully, I'm trying to convey it constructively, I give scenario and stories, examples, to show how it will affect some people and so on. There's no perfect device, but to make a better device, the users need to feedback on what are the bads and try to get it resolved.
If we ignore or say, it's ok, not so serious for us, then how will we expect the things to change and improve for the better. I mean, everyone wants a better improved OS right? Or do they?

Her first impression already show plenty of negative points. Did you even read her post? Unlike you I comment based on her message I don't judge based on who she is. In fact her article expressed a bunch of hopes and dreams for the Microsoft-Nokia alliance. Frankly I don't know if she can be an unbiased reviewer later as her post already show her clearly biased.

N9's multitasking limit is very high. Have you seen videos of N9 multitasking more than 20 apps? The phone is still usable. Has anybody reached N9's multitasking limit in normal use?

N9 probably the best multitasking ability. ios and WP7 multitasking are fake (apps are suspended, not multitasked). Even Android doesn't come close. This is what I got from another blog:

"In theory, Android allows apps to continue running in the background, but within many severe restrictions. First of all, all background tasks in total cannot take more than some 5-10% of CPU time, which is very little. Any app that uses more than that when switched to the background will get frozen. Also, if the apps already running in the background get close to the limit and you try to switch to the background another one and the limit gets exceeded, the app will be frozen. And the same for the size of operating memory (RAM) used. Thirdly, Android also restricts which functions can be active in the background. If an app does something that isn't allowed to work in the background, it'll be frozen. And so on..."

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Added on March 21, 2012, 7:48 pm

Let me guess. You posted the link because her overall impression was positive. You're just as biased as me. But that's okay, we all have our bias and preferences. Peace.

Alright, I'll let you have the last word. This is getting pointless.

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Added on March 21, 2012, 8:27 pm

Neither did I say you said anything bad about N9 multitasking. Why so confrontational?

Did your downloading slow down or your phone slow down in doing other tasks? There is a difference here.

Haha, for me, I prefer to have options, to kill or not.
And if it wants to auto, it should know which should not be simply killed, like what WP did on IE, it doesn't get killed, which I kinda like it. I tested it many times, the IE won't get killed, interesting, but the tabs will. Anyway, this can be seen as future improvements on the product.

Let's hope she will highlight the importance of need; It'll need these famous and well-known reviewers or writers to push and raise awareness. They say 1 word is better and more effective than many unknown people say thousands of millions of words.

Firefox is a high memory consumer, especially on N900. Web browser too as it's constantly running in the backgruond, the phone will feel hot and consuming battery even in sleep mode.
Previously when I was doing the N9 review, I did stress test video, I didn't really open many apps, but there's Firefox with few tabs, Maps, and several other; It lags pretty badly and I tried to continue play NFS Shift, the phone actually hangs and have to force turn off. Firefox is the main culprit and back then the Firefox is still early version. Not sure about the new one as I seldom or rarely use N9 to browse since I prefer qwerty keyboard.

But to run many apps is possible, just depending what apps.

In N900, with Kmplayer, when you minimize, the video still continues to play, this is quite amazing. Once I output the video to TV, then I receive an SMS, so I switch to multi-tasking window and read the SMS, the video still playing in the TV while my phone screen is in SMS, so I just reply and send; this is pretty amazing, but it does cause some jitter to the video when sending and during receiving. To think about it, N900 only have 256MB Ram, with 768MB being virtual memory... When the virtual memory is used up to certain level, it can cause heavy impact on the performance.
I'm not sure about N9 with virtual memory since the RAM is already so high.

Web browser is usually one of the main culprit but the default browser should be better especially since it doesn't support flash. For N900, the flash is one of the major performance killer, some people turn it off. The great thing here is there is option/choice for user, instead of not providing and giving excuses (e.g. Mr Jobs). But he successfully killed it I guess, no more Flash for future smartphone OS. Before that, it was said to come on MOST (if not all) smartphone OS, except iOS.

Luckily they manage to get flash on Firefox for MeeGo. For N9, I don't really like the default browser because it's very plain and simple, even after PR1.2, they didn't seem to add in features like history, bookmarks, and so on. I think they might not be improving/adding it further. Just wonder will we still get PR1.3

In terms of web browsing performance between MeeGo default browser and Windows Phone IE browser, I do agree with ViraVira (as said in his article/blog); despite the IE browser score less in html5test, but you can feel it's smoother, more snappy, it gives better browsing experience. What MeeGo currently has is the advantage on FireFox for those and can compromise on the performance for what it can do or offer.
True, the thing flexibility is, user need to know the limitation on the hardware or what will happen if they run many apps.
In a way, Microsoft control and limit on how many apps can be run is a good, but it'll be even better if they provide options for user to customize further. You know, like Advanced mode, and then further customization. For general users, they can go with the "recommended" settings. But these are more like "nice to have" improvements in future.

Didn't know about the swap, thanks for the info.
For N900, what I notice is, when the swap is use up to like 150MB, the device will be really sluggish most of the time, and I will restart the device. There's also ways to sort of force it to use more ram by adjusing the swappiness properties or completely turn it off and face the consequences lol. There's actually an app called "swappoluble" for Maemo, which you can customize some variables or use the "recommended" settings from the developer.

Since N9 has 1GB Ram, I suppose we can turn off or adjust the swappiness level to very low like 10 or 20? Default should be 100. The problem is we can't monitor the ram usage. In Maemo, there is Desktop and you can put widgets to monitor the process and ram usage. I would say Maemo is very optimize in terms of processor and ram usage, despite the slow processor and ram, it can multi-task very well and it's still smooth to switch between different apps. N9 with 1GB Ram should do much better, that's like 4X the ram of N900.

Personally though, I would like to have more powerful device running Maemo5, but the source is with Nokia and they're not releasing it. Else, the team in maemotalk.org would've done wonders. They've modified the kernels to do many things, and there's also CSSU (Community Seamless Software Update) to provide their own updates, they fixed a bug which took quite some time before Nokia did. Imagine that, lol.
If the source was given, I can't imagine how it will turn out.
Yup, CuteTube is great, the developer did a fine job. I mainly use it for download. In Maemo5, it was free, lol; but the developer deserve to be paid for the amazing app.

Here's the NitDroid on N9 Video. Not too shabby for an Alpha release, eh? Not even laggy.

Lol, now only you buy the app is it? Previously Open Video Player can play minimised but not compatible with PR 1.2. This one could watch full screen. It's the same developer as cutetube. I asked him in maemo forum is he going to put it to Ovi Store, he said no more doing, too many codes to change.

My current Avg Idle is 6mA, anyone have below it?

If you have used one, you may understand the feeling. EVen now, I still prefer the N900. Some of the N900 users after switching to other still looked back. You know there're few exceptional device from Nokia? Like 6600, N95, etc. N900 is one of them with very complete hardware (there's Infrared, stereo speaker, lens cover, stylus, qwerty) and a great OS. With the default browser, you can activate the "mouse cursor" so you can do the drag and drop thing, you can do "hover", useful on dynamic websites, you can visit desktop version of Facebook and pretty much do everything like the desktop version, chat, organize pictures in album (drag-and-drop). You can easily select portion of the text too since you can activate the mouse cursor, and use keyboard short-cuts.

Then the multi-tasking is a breeze and convenient to use, just tap the top left you'll go into mutl-tasking window and you can easily switch between apps. So, let's say I'm half way SMS, I can switch to the browser copy some text, switch back to SMS and paste there easily and fast. I tried doing the same on Android, oh the horror.

What I can say is, it's like having a mini pocket-size laptop in your hand, and it can do many basic/usual things that a laptop can do. This in my opinion, brings smartphone experience a closer step to mobile computer experience, what initially POCKET PC meant to achieve.
It doesn't need the person to be advance to use it, if a person can use the computer, it's pretty much the same, there's a desktop like usualy computer where you can put your icons anywhere you like, even overlap one another, no restrictions like where you can put and so on; so the customization of the Desktop is most unique, you can find many creatively design desktop from many users. In LYN N900 thread, there're many types of users, so it's no necesarily one must be advance user. The main issue is the lack of apps/games, official MMS support, 3G calls. The Ovi store is practically useless. Nokia never seem to bother about MMS and 3G calls even up to PR1.3. MMS was supported by 3rd party application and it uses data/internet instead.

There's mplayer (uses processing power) which can decode most of the video file format/types, also have subtitles support. With TV Out, it can also serve as a media player, just dump videos into it and most of the time it just plays without any issue unless it's higher quality, then it may not be able to render properly or at all. There's also Knots2, which allows streaming of video via wifi from the PC's VLC Player, so I can use my PC to stream HD videos to N900 and output through TV.

Anyway, it's a great device, if only there's a better spec version to catch up with today's standard.

Yup, you can say most (if not all) those great apps for N900 is free. I don't visit OVI Store. In N900, by default there's App Manager, which you can add other repository (something like Cydia on jailbroken iOS), here you can find tons of apps, there're some ported from Desktop version (there's Chromium aka Google Chrome), there're also WarCraft2 & StarCraft (whcih runs on different engine), there's DOSBox, so much more. There's also some Java package you can install, then you can run NetBeans IDE! That's plain crazy though.
With Ir, there's Ir Remote app (as usual) and also Remote Trigger for DSLR.

Basically, the main attraction for most people is simple, they want apps and games, those that are popular and nice. Nokia didn't push enough effort on this for Maemo and MeeGo, even Samsung did better for their Bada OS?
As for Microsoft, I believe they've been pushing hard on this since sometime a go.

N9 video playback is not as good as N8; I tested some 720p video, N9 cannot play it properly but N8 has no problem at all.
As for DLNA, I suppose Symbian is more widely use and they have larger teams and more attention, so there should be less issue and if any, it could be rectified and sorted much faster.

Thanks.

1. How do I transfer N8's Maps Favorites to N9 Maps?. Both have different Nokia Account (I want to keep it separate).

2. When you export your Contacts to a File in N9, where is this file kept and what's it called? I did that but couldn't find it.

Yup, back during the time of N900, many people were asking about the 3G and MMS, because of this, they sold or didn't get it. Then it's all about apps and games. Their friends are enjoying game on iPhone/Androids, so how can they stand, hee. Moreover, if there's multiplay, they'll be left out and also left out of the circle or conversation, no idea what they're talking about.
But actually for iOS, there's an option, which is iPod Touch which you can get for 1/3 of iPhone price, but you cannot have data, and have to rely on wifi.
I think I download it before but seems not working, I think that was the early versions or something.
Good for show only, cannot do, lol, way too laggy. NetBeans IDE consume high resource even on Desktop PC, lol. But with the Java library (forget what's it's called), you can run applets, and stuffs on the phone. It's like having full java on the phone, not the ME edition.
My colleague got the Samsung Wave on Bada, during that time, they done more promotion and giving free games and bringing apps and games to the platform. But Nokia didn't, we only have Angry Birds on N900, and some other puzzle or blocks type of game, but the device was not so much meant for gaming, more for work, the 9 series.

Yup, MS pushing and attracting developers is obvious that it's highlighted in GSMArena and several sites. It'll take some time, but it'll definitely catch up; but their marketplace needs better organization or some sort, most feedback I have is the marketplace is not so convenient to browse and apps/games are not sorted well, you often see useless 1 star app on top, weird. Even myself, when I was browsing to see what free app/games it has, after browsing very far below, only I found more interesting and the common app/games.

The GPU is great, but did you notice banding issues on Nokia devices? I first notice the severity on N8, but seems very few notice this, but it's so obvious, once I show it, they can see it clearly. You can see this on N9 as well, but not as bad as N8. N900 has no or very little banding issue, so I never really notice it, but on N8, it's very obvious.

Here's an explanation and sample of banding.
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gradient.php

Here's the sample video I took, not so obvious when see from video, but it's there. E7 with CBD also same.

Nice and addicting games, but not everyone draw nicely.

If got bigger scree it's better, on small screen and using fingers, it's horrible.
Samsung Galaxy Note is nice for this, Tablets even better.

That's the best part of the game actually hahaha

Same, I got the iPod Touch, but I hardly use it after a while. The gaming is quite fun, but it's have not much control so not all types of game is suitable; Still prefer to play on PSP.
One app which I particularly like is the "Dynolicious" app 

Let's hope so. There's still many things to improve on Windows Phone. Talk about scrolling, the contacts could use a better scrolling feature like in N9, you can scroll to specific alphabet easily, or like Android, you can easily filter by scrolling. The seems to missed this on Windows Phone, but they really did amazing job on SNS, you don't have to install Facebook application at all, you can comment directly, like, tag, etc. Very cool! When you browse a picture or post, it will be cached into the phone. You can view them even when offline, since it's cached into the phone, zooming is smooth and quality is still there (unlike Android), and you can even save it even offline as it's already cached. This is the Amazing Everyday experience, lol. I'm surprise how detail and well they did this, but other features seems they just do the basics.

Finally! After so long, a very good explanation. The bit you mean color?
I've been wondering is it because of the color but then my N900 (65K) doesn't seem to be obvious, that what makes me wonder, but maybe it's because of the resolution and pixel count, and also screen size.

I mean can draw, but not easy, small screen and finger also cover so big already.
I've seen those that draw very detail and nice. I tried drawing with the Galaxy Note, it was soooo much better, first the screen is big, you can draw more details and with the stylus, even better. Just that I find it's not always accurate to the touch, sometimes you touch on this spot, it appears on another spot. Have to hold it properly. Plus, you can see gap between the glass and the display, unlike N9 and Lumia 800

I notice got one bug, anyone got the word "USB"?
I draw USB, when I watch back the person guess, there is no "U" word in the list? LoL, how to answer.

http://www.gsmarena.com/newscomm-4007.php

I thought that just recently Nokia retrenched a lot of people after decision to dump Symbian.Not again?

Looka like Nokia is really having a bad time now.

It was reported early this year that Nokia will open a factory in Vietnam. The news link abt  opening in vietnam was posted in gsm arena by an asian. They close in Europe, open in Asia, normal trend. Last time, everyone want to go china open, now shifting to vietnam

No Angry Birds Space for WP7? What a shame. At least N9 users can play the Android version.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/23/analyst-n...okias-recovery/

any hope for angry bird space for meego??

Oh, that's why my E6 doesnt have this banding thingy. I thought it's cos it's smaller 3.2" screen. Actually the N9 also not so noticeable, unless watch videos in the dark 

I was refering to this :
http://excelbrothers.com/vietnam-software-...ory-in-vietnam/

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2011/09/0.../#axzz1pxZVr600
http://www.businesslawconsultant.com/news/...special-offers-
Factory supposed to open early 2012, but government making it hard, not surprising

Latest news on Finland job cuts also mention Vietnam : http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-2...t-finnish-plant
So, I suppose in the meanwhile, China  & South Korea factories will be producing the phones

Yup, no Facebook Group access, only friends/contact at the moment. Not sure how they will implement group, as in Facebook, we have personal grouping of the contacts and then there's the discussion or group page. Perhaps just sync the friends grouping in Facebook is enough.

For The Group/Discussion Page, not sure if it will be implemented, but it can get quite messy and so I think it shouldn't be inside People page, perhaps a different page, or just use the FB app for that cause there's also other things like fan page, your own page, etc.

N8 specs seems to mention that it's 16M colour but the resolution is low and also quite low ppi.

After further testing, my previous findings were incorrect.
It will still put away the browser from multi-tasking window, but it's not killed, but just you can't see it in multi-tasking window, when you open up to 5 other apps. Previously I think I access the web browser (any tab) will do, it will bring the application to the latest accessed.

Previously, what I was told and know is, the multi-tasking will close the FIRST app you open, as in FIRST IN FIRST OUT concept. BUT I find out this was not the case, IF you access the FIRST app after you open 4 app, the FIRST app will be bring to then back. So, it should be the last access app will be put away first.
Another thing I notice, although the 6 tabs doesn't SEEM to contribute to how the maximum 5 apps you can open, actually it does. You can have 5 apps open including the browser and the browser having 6 tabs. But when you access another tab, it will put away the last accessed app to make room for the tab you're viewing.
Kinda confusing at first, but basically, the tabs are also not loaded until you access and in running in the multi-tasking window.

One more thing, I tried with Word and Excel mobile, edited the default doc, then try running more than 5 apps, the Word and Excel got put away. I re-open again the word and excel app, I notice the edited document is still there, it wasn't terminated. So, in a way, I think you can say it actually can save the state of more than 5 app, just that it only allows 5 app to be shown in the multi-tasking window, and possible these 5 apps with allowed background process? No real idea. Also not sure how long will it keep the state after being put away from multi-tasking Windows, as I read from MS site, if there's not enough memory, the app will be tombstoned, supposedly it means completely wipe away or does it still keep the state? Not sure, cause even after few days, and running many different test the IE tabs still there.
Anyway, if you restart the phone, then all these states will be gone, but IE tabs still preserve (e.g. those tabs that were left open), but the word and excel document edited half way will be gone. So, not really sure how long can Office documents state be keep after being put away from multi-tasking view.
UPDATE: After restart, it only preserve the tabs and thumbails, but if you access them, it will try to refresh. So, it doesn't preserve the page, unlike if you didn't restart, even if you've used many application and the IE has been put away, when you access IE, the page seems still available, but not sure for how long, maybe more memory intensive apps/games needed for testing.

Did you try indoor especialyl low light? Especially when the brightness go up. It's not just the downloaded video files, I first notice it from TRON trailer which were included, I notice the same on photos, you can see large pixels banding very obvious, and not just on blacks. When watching movies, those scenes with clouds or night scene, oh gosh, it's horrible. Example: "Salt" movie, the dark scene, it's totally horrible.
Even video recorded have this issue as most of the time, I record videos indoors in low light, poor/weak flourescent lighting, it's bad. Even during recording, you see the screen, it's bad, and I don't even have to hold it near to look. To me, it looks really bad.

It's for the review, which I kept modifying lol, but not the usual review. I'm not really suitable to write review or stuffs like that, but since it's required, I just write my own, about my findings, my opinion, rants, complaints and stuffs.

I've read that, but didn't go through in detail. Today, I read another blog which talks about how the developer can write its state permanent storage.
So, in theory, it's actually can support more than 5 apps as those apps not in the "mutli-tasking view" still have it's state preserve, just that it's not in the "multi-tasking view" (something like a limit of "recently app used list").
But I think the difference is, those app in multi-tasking view will have priority over being tombstoned and can have background service running? If the app is being remove from multi-tasking view, possibly the background service will no longer be allowed to run. Need to test it out first. The behavior is dependent on how the developer implement it.
But IE has something unique, it still continue to load in the background, so assuming it's process is running, if I leave it in multi-tasking view and didn't close it, it doesn't seems to consume battery or resources, unlike N9, which have true multi-tasking, the browser will actually consume resources. I assume Windows Phone, the IE will be in dormant state after finish loading.

Probably the brightness settings? Or the light sensor? When I send to Nokia Service Centre last time, we compare with another customer's N8, it's obvious mine were worst. But ding dong ding dong, there's nothing wrong with the device, which later I learn about the banding thing through more research.
Anyway, luckily it was not my primary device, so it doesn't really affect me, but that time I just want to know what's wrong and is it my device have problem; If it's the display, maybe Nokia can take note of it for their future device, if it's software related, maybe they can look into it. Only know it's banding issue, but didn't know was caused by display or software until your explanation, lol.

So, I think Nokia should take notice on this issue about the display.

Not done, when I pass the device around I also have no time to really explore so cannot really write, unless just a brief impression; but anyway, mine is really long (like a long story - "cheong hei"), lol, just as you can see how I type in forums, lol.

True, it depends the behavior of the application. For those application that will be permanently remove from memory, I notice it will stored its state into permanent storage, so when I resume, I got this "resuming..." screen. I forgot which app was that already. Overall, the memory management is good, and similar like Apple concept, the developer need to handle the behavior on their program and store the state, the OS will kill when it need memory. This way, the OS will have more stability as any problem, it's the app, the OS will not be affected.

Yea, IE seems to have special priority. Even I have nothing in my Multi-tasking window, the next day, I open IE, all my tabs is there, and the contents are still available (no internet connection). Only if I restart, it will clear of the content, but the tabs is still there with the thumbnails and address, when I access it, the  it will tries to refresh.
They can apply this to their Office, if the document not yet been save, the OS can save as temporary file in permanent storage; so even after we restart the device or crash (somehow), everything will still be in tact, just like our desktop version office.

LoL! But during N8 time, when I notice this issue, I check with my colleague's Samsung Wave, there's no banding issue, his display was smooth and more clear. I guess the one on N8 might be older or also maybe due to the resolution?

Update from tgalal on porting of Whatsapp to N9!
Look at the last post!

How to set update feeds to manual? Is there a 'one switch' that does that?

If you switch it off, what about emails?

Sure, but you might find it very long and you may read many of my "personal" view, so not those general review.

My Nokia N9 version:
http://214impressions.blogspot.com/2011/10...mpressions.html

Thanks for the link, really weird, some of their devices/display have no issues, while some have, they should have more standard.

To me, I'll be fair, both N9 and Lumia is works well and have good performance, smoothness, reliability and stability. Lumia is better, no doubt; Just like what I've said before, it's built to achieve this, so it surely will be better, just by how much and how important is it to people.
Not everyone wants the FASTEST phone, similarly, not everyone wants the most POWERFUL phone, etc.

Not when you want to use the Favorites. It will be super super lagging.

Found another problem. When downloading huge maps data of a 200MB using MAPS, it will freeze (showing....starting) but nothing got downloaded and sucking battery life.

The only way out is to exit Maps and then re-enter to continue downloading where it left off. For a size of 200MB, you have to repeat the exit-reenter at least a dozen time. Maps in N9 is simply a piece of junk.

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Added on April 2, 2012, 12:09 amHow to force N9 to use Wifi instead of Telco data when wifi is available? Where are the priority setting?

Thanks, since those common review we can find anywhere, and in-depth review, GSMArena has done very detail with detail testing; and I'm not a reviewer, so I decided to write like a blog for what I personally feel and want to talk about the phone, rather than general review. For MeeGo, there's lots to share (even more for Maemo), plus, it'll most likely the only MeeGo device in the market (or MeeGo Harmattan), and it's like a introduction to a competely new OS.

For the Nokia Lumia 800 though, it'll be worst but I've edited a lot, but still very long. LoLx

Anyway, I've done the video on the Multi-Tasking; Not sure if my findings are 100% accurate or not, have been re-writing and re-do for this part few times.

True, if compared with N8, N900, and some devices, it's weaker. But I compared with my iPod Touch and other people's iPhone3 and iPhone4, seems N9 was better, at last it didn't disconnect. From my room, it was weak signal, other phones were also in 1 bar. The N9 still have no issue, even update to latest PR1.2.
I only have problem when the first time I try to DETECT and connect, it cannot detect as no signal, once I acquired the signal and connect and remembered, I have not face any problem so far (touchwood).