That's just an amazon thing. Other places have them shipping today. And Asus isn't going through a store to ship them to us. Asus has had the phones ready and shippable for at least long enough to send a bunch of them to New York to be handed out yesterday.
Now I'm certainly appreciative if we do end up getting phones, which may still happen. It's just the lack of communication after almost 2 months when the phone has clearly been ready for quite some time now. I was really excited before and now that's faded.
I wanted to do a thorough review that would be really helpful to people who wanted to make a decision about buying on release day. Already too late for that now. I also wanted to get to know the phone inside out to be able to help people when they came on here with questions. A lot of people will have the phone before us and a bunch of people have the phone right now, so it makes us less useful.
I mean I have no problem waiting any amount of time for something free. I'm not complaining about that and will be just as grateful no matter when we get them. It's just that I actually wanted to really be helpful and do the job we were meant to do for receiving them.