OK, as I mentioned above, I was one of those that ordered on 10/20 and had a ship date of yesterday. To my surprise, late last night status changed to "shipped" on 11/17, which was even a day earlier. Thought it was odd that my credit card was never charged and I never received an email about the shipping. Now this morning it switched back to processing with a ship date of 12/26. Complete BS. I'm cancelling. The S8 will be out before I get this thing. I believe that Verizon is stopping shipments because of the connectivity issues people are having. Maybe they will ship after there is a software fix, or they're waiting on a new batch to be manufactured.