I got my phone. Family likes it. (think this is a long term color, very classy and undated)
The very first thing I did, when taking it out of the box, I put a tempered glass screen protector on it. No wipes no dust. Factory fresh virgin glass on both the screen protector and my brand new phone.
The color. I can see how some are thinking it's pink, but it's not.
If you compare it to the gold iPhone, it's still gold but warm gold, vs cold gold.
It's more coppery than pink. So the redness is apparent. I have worked with copper, including plumbing and highly polished decorative copper pieces. I know all the shades of copper, and the Rose Gold is one of them. It's very subtle in the same way that the gold iPhone is "Champaign" like. - Not very deep.
I am updating to the latest firmware, and then performing a restore. I also added it to my developer's device list.