I call bull**** on the whole "Verizon is still testing for bugs" argument. Vodafone is testing for bugs, yes, because they officially communicated that. However, if you follow Black_Man_X on Twitter, you'll know he said this morning (in a tweet to everyone) that Verizon is NOT holding the phone back due to bugs, continued testing, etc. The phone is finalized. It's ready. It has been. Verizon is doing this out of PURE GREED. They want to push more Rezounds and RAZR's.
Sadly, it isn't going to work out that well for them, but they will push this thing back as far as they can to squeeze every dime they can out of the RAZR/Rezound. My partner is a great salesman for VZW corporate and tells me that he has several customers per day coming into the store asking for the Galaxy Nexus, and he has to tell them it's not released yet. 99% of them walk out the door, empty-handed, indicating they'll come back later for the GNex. He's tried selling RAZRs and Rezounds to them, but no one wants them (except the uneducated customers who just want whatever the so-called latest/greatest is). He said sales of RAZRs and Rezounds are bleak and, quite frankly, sad. He said they're doing worse than the Bionic, which didn't do that well, either.
I think Verizon has invested too much money into the RAZR and Rezound to cannibalize their sales with the Galaxy Nexus. Verizon knows that especially for our crowd, but also for the general public crowd, that there's no reason to buy either RAZR or Rezound when the Galaxy Nexus is out, and since Verizon pays manufacturers for a set amount of phones ahead of time and CANNOT return them to the vendor if they don't sell, they want to burn through as many as they can so they don't lose $ on this whole deal with Moto/HTC before they push the new Samsung phone.
It's that simple. It's all down to $, and Verizon does have something to lose, even if sales of the GNex are incredible. Say they were to release the Galaxy Nexus on Monday - they would likely have a decent launch, but it would mean mostly GNex sales and very few RAZR/Rezound sales. That's good on the surface, because any sale is a good sale, however, all the RAZR/Rezounds VZW paid for will continue to just sit in their warehouse, and Verizon will essentially never get anything on their investment into those phones. If they wait on selling the Galaxy Nexus, they may sell fewer of that phone, but if they have't committed to too many already, they can still sell the amount they have committed to to Samsung, while in the short-term (before the GNex launch) push as many RAZR/Rezounds onto customers as possible to burn through as many of those phones as they can. The end goal, then, is to have as few RAZR/Rezounds in their warehouses unsold as possible. They can do this by delaying the Galaxy Nexus for a little longer. People will become desperate; people who have no patience; people who are impulsive. These people will buy the RAZR or Rezound.
This is a day-by-day thing. Verizon is evaluating their numbers and sales of their devices day-by-day and won't make a decision until someone at corporate is happy enough with the sales of RAZR/Rezound to make an official move. The best thing we could do, HONESTLY, is go out and buy RAZR/Rezounds to play with, keep them in mint-condition (rent them, as Black_Man_X suggested). Black_Man_X said to do this for a REASON - if thousands of us go buy the RAZR/Rezound right now, Verizon's sales of those phones will look artificially wonderful - and it could spur them to pull the trigger on the Nexus. All we have to do is chalk up the $35 restock fee, which, in my opinion, isn't that much money. If you can't afford the $35 restock fee, then you probably can't afford the $300 Galaxy Nexus, anyway.Just my thoughts - but some things are adding up when you look at things from this view.