This is my second post after reading this thread since June when I first talked with my VZW rep who told me that the 6800 would be released in early August (yeah, right ...).

I called VZW and told them (paraphrasing), "I don't care when you're releasing the phone, just give me some information and a reason to stay and I'll stay. If not, no hard feelings, just let me know so I can go to Sprint".

Well, suffice it to say, I've moved to Sprint and signed up using SERO after many years of VZW service. I talked with two people there and the closest I got was someone pointing me to this thread for information (gee, thanks!), that same person said he saw it as a phone that was coming out, and that the best he could guess would be 90 days.

Good luck to all.