One little benefit of the extra month's wait for the X is that those of us who used Next 24 last year and pre ordered would have one more payment due in Sept due to be able to trade in at the 12 month mark.
But now you'll pay your 12th payment (50%) here in September's bill. By the time you pre Order end of October no one will have to call AT&T the day or two ahead to "pay off" anything..
In fact most of us will have paid a 13th payment for Oct. Wonder how AT&T will deal with that? Give us a lower payment on our X??
Knowing AT$T, they'll probably just pocket it.