I can, no problem at all

Strange :s

I wonder if its to do with having an Android UserAgent :s

I can select text as described as well. It is incredibly clunky and clumsy, but it usually works. I have never seen a less efficient way of selecting all text though. About as far as you can get from pressing Ctrl-A.

Will the N9 possibly gets better after Pr1.3 if you Factory Reset it? or reinstall pr1.3 on a clean N9? or isnt it true?

Battery life in these new phones is such a joke, we might as well call them Landlines!!

Guys I heard most of you say WiFi connectivity has grown faster, not that it bothers me but today I happened to spend a couple of minutes with my son's Galaxy Ace, I clicked on WiFi On and it activated almost instantly, only then I noticed N9 is slower in this department. Has it really improved?

OK, we need to stop lying to ourselves already. Email app is out of sync, multi-tasking is lagging as hell, browser became even slower and lags a lot, that smooth transition we loved when they introduced N9 last year when we swipe a playing video into background is totally gone.. Now it has delays, GPS lock isn't faster, it's same/slower, there is a lag/delay every 15 seconds or so while streaming songs through Bluetooth over a car's stereo, without FasterN9 everything is way too slow, text selection is horrible and it got worse within the browser.. and "Application not responding" messages way too often than before.. Even for gallery or camera app sometimes.

I saw some of these comments and more on a clean format and install as well. Seriously speaking, my N9 was near perfect with PR1.2. This new "bug fixes update" seems to have messed a lot of things up. I updated to PR1.2 via OTA back then and you could FEEL the significant improvement in everything. Now, I can feel everything downgraded. Seriously .. I'm getting slightly frustrated now. I'm gonna format.. Wipe it all clean and try again. I loved this phone how it was before. I do not like this delusional update we received probably just to keep us happy or something..

I had the same experience as you, but going from PR1.1 -> 1.2. Because the phone never retained factory config for very long, I always assumed that it was probably something I'd done that made it so much slower -- until I finally wanted to know for sure, by resetting it completely (firmware + mmc) and leaving it stock for a while.

I didn't go so far as to quantify system performance by running detailed analyses, but the UI simply felt laggy and appeared to be constantly running just beyond the point of maximum resource consumption where previously it felt smooth and performed without any notable slow-downs. In fact, I had used the email client and web feeds with PR1.1 but stopped using both completely (due to probably poorly implemented SQLite frequently corrupting the DB file it writes to, often ending up with many old entries that should have been deleted and a DB file that was nearing 100MB in size). In spite of this, the lag continued. And call me crazy, but I even think the reception has somehow diminished. Where previously I remember downloading an 80 MB media file at an average of 500 KB/sec via the mobile connection (5 Mbit/sec), now I'm lucky to see 200 KB/sec using my Wifi at home -- which itself has also degraded, to the point where the phone now frequently only sees 1-2 bars (previously: 4-5) of signal strength. Needless to say, I have kept the phone in pristine condition and actually managed to never drop it.

PR1.3 improved over 1.2 -- but only slightly. At this point I just wish I could go back to PR1.1; even if it meant having to forego whatever has been added in the interim. Because in the end, none of the presumed fixes and additions mean a thing when the trade-off is going from a functionally swift resource to a sluggish impediment.

exactly. If it wasn't for FasterN9, I would have given up on Nokia after PR 1.1. Bless that dude who made the mod.

And I hate the fact that even the smallest thing such as the cool video swipe transition is now totally gone. Wanted to show off last night and everything was slow and laggy.. It sucked.. Ended up receiving the comment "ah.. Nokias.. They're always like that".