I got mine the 31st, also without a mail for a heads-up (#6xxx, black translucent case) 
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My kids called me at work so of course I went home for lunch in order to see the goodies. We did have fun with the paper model before so everyone was excited about it 
I like the case it came in. Very slim. It was surprising that the infamous back cover was hidden a bit and not assembled yet. A first taste in owning the phone I guess ;-).
I do like the camera. I come from a 3 year old Samsung Xcover. Compared to that, the camera is amazing. High res and very detailed.
4G is working fine. I do notice that it regularly switches bands to H+ or even lower even when standing still. Could be due to the local cell usage though.
I haven’t been able to open it up yet. The screen is hard to take off (as also reported in FP2: Teardown & Reassemble Competition!) so I’ll have to give it some more tries and massages 
GPS seemed very quick to fix. A lot quicker than on the Samsung anyway.
I didn’t notice any problems with the touchscreen. But it might be I rebooted to quickly to notice it 
That’s it for now. Waiting until I could restore my contacts which is the main thing I need to restore. Then, I can wait until the rooting manual is out and try to restore other stuff as well.
And yes, my main negative points are that the phone is not pre-rooted and that the recovery mode is making it difficult to flash SuperSU to the phone.