I just ordered my Verizon Developer Edition from Motorola and paid $675.00 (with tax). I didn't think 16 GB was enough for me, I use over 20 GB in my Gnex and am not interested in cloud storage.
I pray I dont have the voice cut out issue with it, I have been suffering with the 30min hangup bug on the Gnex and cannot tolerate voice quality issues after paying that kind of money.
I have not owned a motorola phone since 2007 and hope I am not disappointed.
Been using a 16gig demo device from Verizon (perk of my job) since the beginning of October. Other than the space, i love it. The Voice Cut Out issue has been fixed, and the camera has been improved.
I finally pulled the trigger Tuesday night and ordered the Dev edition to get 32gig and the unlocked boot loader. $649.99 + Tax. I was happy with the decision.
BUT... Late last night, I saw Moto dropped the price of the Dev editions to $549.99 + tax!!!! UGH!!! I called Moto, they don't have a real policy around some kind of price guarantee. If I want the difference back, I may need to return, and repurchase. You're likely in the same boat, unless they didn't ship and you can get them to cancel, then re-order. I'm waiting on a call back for "options" after I escalated my concern last night.
Either way, for $649.99 + Tax, to get 32gig + ability to unlock the bootloader and easily root without waiting on exploit, and the ability to flash a custom or alternate rom should the need or desire ever arise, was worth it.
This is the first phone I've had to pay for in a long while, and this is the first phone in that time I don't mind spending that much on.
For $549.99 + Tax to get it... even better.
If I could have got by with 16gig and didn't want to root, I would have jumped at the $49.99 or $99 offers, upgrading my mom's dumb phone, and switching the X to my line later to keep unlimited data.
Having tried the HTC One, Note 3, and having a GS4, iPhone5 & 5S, GS3, and other phones and devices, the X is the perfect phone for me. Battery life has been good, its the best size, fit in hand, screen, speed, etc. Only improvements I would suggest would be having a SD card slot, maybe a removable battery, and port Moto's SmartActions that the Bionic had to the X (or expand Moto Assist's features to fully match SmartActions) .