I'm wanting this phone so I have been reading every little thing that comes out on it. I'm from Canada so probably looking at a holiday release unless I buy unlocked from the US.
You guys seem to be in luck over there though, when I was reading one of the articles it had mentioned that Samsung was working hard to get this phone to as many carriers as possible. This is there flagship Android 2.1 phone and if you read the other news releases it's easy to see the connection with the iphone 4g.
Samsung and Apple are both scheduled to release this phone for the summer holidays, so Samsung is hoping to steal 4g iphone sales and retain there current Android lovers looking for a upgrade. Samsung will try and flood the market and carriers with this if they want to compete.