If people are referring to THESE press invites (attached below) the tiles are not VZW red; its more of an orangish-red similar to the colors found on a mango. If you need to compare just visit the VZW website. It doesn't make sense for VZW to wait for a Mango press event to release a phone without Mango functionality... but because that sounds so stupid, thats probably the plan. Why spend on a press event for a phone, when you can piggy-back on another event and save money.
I was ready for the Trophy on the 12th, I had even downloaded the Zune software in anticipation and had the money put away... im not as excited anymore. VZW missed the fever pitch of excitement for this device IMO and excitement has turned into resentment. The only thing that could justify this disaster of a release would be for the Trophy to have some additional software capability (and im not talking about some damn poker game). A bing Maps update or something along those lines would make the people who have waited this long say "ohhhh thats what they were testing."
I doubt this will happen though and the sad thing is; if WP7 sales do not take off like expected... nobody will blame VZW for their lackluster effort.
Microsoft sending out invites to a Windows Phone event on May 24