Sounds to me like Verizon keeps pushing back the date in an attempt to secure enough preorders to justify the upfront costs of bringing the Trophy into their lineup. This doesn't sound too promising for the immediate future of WP7 at Verizon. If they don't feel confident bringing the Trophy into thier lineup 6 months after WP7 hit the market then I doubt that they are looking into bringing higher-end WP7 devices into thier stores any time soon.
With that said, it looks like I might be jumping ship to AT&T when they get the new HTC WP7 device. I cannot help but to think that Verizon is intentionally dragging their feet with releasing a WP7 phone. Verizon was not happy with Microsoft with how the Kin played out. They just recently got the iPhone and they are heavily invested in Android.
Verizon needs to pull their head out of their &#! and give the customers what they want. It is a shame that Verizon refuses to deliver a WP7 device that is running one year old hardware to their customers.