I've been using Jellybeans for Vim (https://github.com/nanotech/jellybeans.vim) for some time and, try as I might, I can't make the switch to Solarized.
Syntax highlighting was the one last thing I regretted leaving TextMate for, but yesterday I spent a day tweaking my own theme (based off of Tomorrow-Night https://github.com/ChrisKempson/Tomorrow-Theme , which does have a vim theme but I found it lacking and not at all like the TextMate version) and I like it so far. But it's nice to finally know of another theme with nice colors. Thanks :)
In fact I think I like the string highlighting on this one, I might try it on mine :)