First post.
It genuinely sucks that I seemingly missed the backorder/order complete margin (for people that received their phone in the past couple of days) by minutes, probably. Or hour. I don't know. I ordered it at 12:58 EST on 11/13 after finally getting through all the website issues. Certainly wish Google could have done something different to ensure we all could have gotten the phone we all wanted since the 13th.
It's also the first phone I've ever purchased on my own (broke college student here, oh yeah). I'm also a photojournalist. I was hoping I could use photosphere for a Hurricane Sandy aftermath project I'm working on over here in New York. It would have been a nice thing to have to set my work apart. I hope I have the phone by the next time I head down there for more reportage!
Speaking of which -- if anything, this whole fiasco is probably telling us a lot about ourselves and our impatience, isn't it? haha! Oh well, nothing I can do but wait it out. No big deal. Just a phone. At the Rockaways, I took panoramas on my DSLR as a backup, anyway. Happy Thanksgiving, folks!