After reading plenty of posts from other members (newsradio in particular) this seems to be more of what he has always referred to. Correct me if I am wrong, but those look like they could be capacitive buttons. It has red in the earpiece which also could indicate red in other places on the phone which goes along with this:
Droid Developer Verizon has something “INCREDIBLE” up their sleeves..
I don't know, it seems completely plausible to me that the phone that comes to VZW could be a version of the Supersonic as opposed to the Bravo.
That's just my thought process, feel free to chime in and smack me down if I'm wrong.