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While most of America may be going gaga for Apple’s antennas this morning, other (possibly more sensible) Murkins are focusing their hype on the new Motorola Droid X smartphone, resulting in its complete sell out from retail stores on its first day of sale and clogging Verizon’s phone activation infrastructure.

So successful has the Verizon Droid X been at debut, that some over-excited analysts are even claiming it could replace the iPhone 4G as America’s top smartphone.

Running Google’s Android 2.1 OS, the handset boasts purported readiness for Android 2.2 (Froyo) once it emerges for non-Nexus phones.

X certainly does mark the spot when it comes to the phone’s spec treasures, which include a large 4.3-inch (480×854) display screen – almost a whole inch bigger than the iPhone 4 – a 1GHz Texas Instruments OMAP processor, 8GB flash memory and 512 MB RAM memory (expandable up to 32GB).

The hardware specs make it possible for the Droid X to multitask like a woman, amazingly able to flick between eight open apps simultaneously, from Android’s over 100,000 available.

The X sports a whopping eight mega-pixel camera capable of HD video capture and playback with a mechanical shutter and a video recording speed of 720p at 24 frames per second. The phone also supports video formats like H263, MPEG4, WMV, H264 and text and video messaging with threaded messaging.

Slightly on the chunky side, weighing in at 5.47 ounces, the Droid X comes with Bluetooth, a GPS capable of E911 emergency location/sGPS, a HDMI port, and push email support for Gmail, Exchange and Yahoo along with support for IMAP and POP, MSN Hotmail and AOL Mail packages.

Of course all the social kids on the block are also crammed in to the X, with Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and more all pre-installed and ready to go.

Verizon’s staff is certainly already tweeting about the firm’s new superphone, although sadly it’s to tell punters that the phone’s popularity is current overwhelming the network and that activation delays abound, not just for Droid X customers, but other Verizon phones too. Some customers have reported delays are lasting over an hour in some cases before their phones are activated and ready for use.

Still, despite the delays, Verizon and Motorola may well both be patting each other on the back today and lapping up praise from OS overlord, Google. Talk about taking a bite out of Apple.