Early would be cool. But I was prepared for the 10th when I placed the order, and that's still fine with me. What I've come to learn that is more potentially disappointing is that rooting the phone might not be possible. That throws a big wrench in trying to install all my backups from TB. Never been into custom roms, just rooting to be allowed full backups and stuff bloatware I dont want.
if rooting voids the warranty. I wonder what that means if you have the purchased Asurian coverage from VzW. its that now qualified? Maybe just drop it in a bucket (j/k) if you really needed something fixed.