Man, if it really is pushed back til January, that's complete BS (as in, Verizon is BS).
If that's what ends up happening, the Nexus isn't going to be "top dog" anymore, and the only benefit it will have over any other phone is faster updates :/
Hell, if we end up waiting until mid-January, why not wait until February?
Then, we can perhaps get a phone with just as nice of a screen, running ICS4.2, and running on a Tegra3 2.0ghz quad-core processor (w/ the 5th core) and their 12-core GPU system, backed up by 2-4GB of LPDDR-RAM and whatnot.
I don't know if that phone will actually exist, but I think my point is made...