OK redraider, we disagree. I may be wrong in my thinking, but I do believe it's a viable hypothesis. I'm suggesting that perhaps VZ thinks they can maximize their sales by isolating their preorders. If someone is "sold" on a phone and preorders, that is virtually guaranteed money for Verizon. If someone hesitates to preorder because they are waiting to see how a different phone compares, then that is not guaranteed money for Verizon, as the subscriber can come into the store, be indecisive, and walk out of the store without something in hand. Sure, someone who preorders can always return their phone within the 14 day limit, but the people who do this are 1) going to be a minority of the population, 2) pay VZ $35 for it, and 3) VZ will still turn around and sell the returned device for a huge chunk of change. So...VZ may find it a "smart" business strategy to hook customers in via preorder by deliberately being ambiguous about the next big phone coming down the pipeline.
