I have been following this forum for the last couple weeks so hopefully I have not missed someone else's similar theory to all this. To me, it is clear that Verizon is in on all this. They raised their early termination fee in advance of this development. They release two android phones and attempted to get as many folks to sign new two year agreements as possible by hyping the heck out of one and then offering a killer deal on the other. Now they have all these new people fixed on new two year contracts in which they are paying 30 bucks extra for. With the VOIP on this phone it will be possible to have a data only plan and still use this phone so they want as many people as possible signing the up for the plans that they can make more money on before this phone comes out. Plus they don't have to worry about all these people jumping ship. Verizon has the 700mhz spectrum that Google wanted so naturally Google would want to partner with them. Despite the fact that this is an unlocked phone, I would expect that Verizon, and T-mobile for that matter, will both sell this phone in their stores for a lower price that will be subsidized by a contract.