Just spoke with a guy at a local Verizon store. According to him, they don't have a release date yet, but they did recently get literature on the phone and even have a dummy unit in the store, so it will probably be a matter of a few weeks. I'm eyeballing the i600, the Treo 600, the P900, and the Motorola SM that was just released by ATT. All I want is:

Complete contact list and the ability to dial from contact list
email
web access
schedule

In addition, document viewing and mp3/video would be nice, all in a small form factor. We'll see which one wins my money soon I hope.