After much deliberation, I have landed on the 8X. It's just sexy, many reviewers raving about it. Paul Thurrott's review sealed it for me.
What we know:
Verizon-Coming in Red, Black(both exclusives) and Blue, 16G only as far as we know.
AT&T-Coming in Blue & Limelight Yellow(exclusive), 16G & 8G configurations(Limelight only comes in 8G)
T-Mo-Coming in Blue only although it would be cool if they had some kind of electric magenta exclusive.
I want Limelight. I love it. It's a known fact that people love the colors of the 8X and I have loved that eye-popping Yellow since I first saw it at launch. The fact that it is 8 Gigs only bothers me. I know Skydrive has us all dialed in with cloud storage, but really, why release an 8G anything at all(I can't believe the 8S is only 4G)?
Bearing all this in mind, I am leaning toward buying an unlocked Limelight 16 from Negri($567.50) or somewhere comparable and going with something like RedPocket for a little while as I am on Sprint and need to leave for WP8. I've posted some of this elsewhere here and noone has chimed in. Is anyone else keen on that Yellow? I love how different it is.
Thanks
-Doc
EDIT: Many people inquiring on the off-contract Verizon price: $669.00