Well, I got my Droid X yesterday and have all of 12 hours on it but have come to some conclusions.
High order bit - I like it. A lot. Fantastic piece of hardware except for the camera tumor on the back.
n-2 bit: Motorola needs to disabuse themselves of being a software company. They're not. Period.
So, the hardware: You can find the specs elsewhere but in brief - 1 Ghz processor, 4.3" LCD display, 8 mp camera, 3 mics and all the usual smartphone suspects. This puppy is really thin. Most of the phone is just a hair over 10mm and the top 20mm of it bulges out to 14+mm for the camera. Overall, it feels ok in my medium sized hand though people with really small hands may find it a bit too big.
The 4.3" screen is very nice, displaying images with a lot of clarity and crispness. The bezel on the sides is about 5mm (<1/4") so the LCD seems to really fill up the case with image. The phone is a bit longer than I'd like - they could have trimmed 7-8mm. Still in all, this is one big slab-o-pixels. One "complaint" is it's pretty unreadable in direct sunlight but I'll trade battery life for that any day.
Wifi, bluetooth, 3G all seem to work well and the call clarity is pretty good. The camera seems to work well though the zoom is not that useful. There were earlier complaints of the shutter button being stiff (and causing camera motion when pushed) but mine seems to operate with an appropriate amount of force and pictures seem pretty good. Frankly, I don't like phone cams and would have preferred a version with no camera (and thus no hump).
All the standard functions - browsing, contacts, phone, gallery, ... work as expected. No complaints.
So where is the DX weak? It's page organization is messy and comes with some crapware. More on that in a bit.
The 7 base pages come with a semblance of organization - home, social media, media, phone/contacts, email/messaging, location stuff. Yeah, that's six. The last one seems to be dedicated to the mot social media ap but why that isn't on the social media page isn't obvious. The reason I say semblance is that in a given page, it's kind of random what they've put there. For example on the "location" page they have controls for GPS, Wifi, bluetooth and 3G plus the airplane mode button. Those seem better placed on a settings page (of which, there isn't). When I want to go into airplane mode, I don't think "location". Maybe it's just me. Other pages are like that as well. Skype is on the messaging page and not the phone page. In all, their organization of the 7 pages is just not that clean.
The phone/contacts page is probably the best hint at what they are trying to do - place common contacts on the screen for "one touch" access. A good idea but the initial page set up is confusing with 4 unfilled contact "buttons". It takes a lot of clicking and selecting to actually get to "one touch dialing". I suppose people will figure it out but again it shows that Motorola doesn't really get software.
As for crapware. Perhaps this is an unfair term but the best example is the social media page which pushes you into their incredibly lame attempt at social media integration. I tried it out and found it to be deeply confusing. All they need is the "spot" to complete the mess. So, I installed facebook for android and haven't looked back. I really don't want some unified view of my social media applications. Motorola - keep yer friggin' fingers off my accounts. They also are pushing blockbuster and amazon mp3 with apps on the various pages. Thanks but no thanks. If I want the apps, I'll place them myself.
I disagree with the Gizmodo review in the way they zeroed in the crapware issue. They compared it to the Sony Viao (beautiful HW, tons of crapware) but the reality is that there are a couple of those and the distressingly bad social media app.
Finally, I'm looking forward to the promised FroYo upgrade. If the reports are true, it ought to make the DX really fly!
Summary - beautiful piece of hardware that needs Android to shine through a bit more to make it great.
