From current information, Asia/Australia/etc. will not be seeing the N900 officially launched AT ALL. Which is rather interesting if the bit of info below is taken into consideration:
NOKIA MOBILE DEVICE VOLUME BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA Q3/2009
Europe 27.1 million units
Middle East & Africa 19.6 million units
Greater China 18.5 million units
Asia-Pacific 30.5 million units
North America 3.1 million units
Latin America 9.7 million units
LetΒs not sell our (quite possibly) most important device to date in the area where we have our largest volume. Including China in the Asia Pacific region (so we can just call it Asia) just makes the difference even largerΒ 49 million which is almost double of the next closest region; Europe at 27.1 million.