Samsung SCH-i600 / SP-i600

I was in a Chicago Verizon store a little while ago. They had a sample mockup of the phone, though it was not working. The manager told me something troubling. He said that Verizon only planned to launch 3 new phones for the holidays of 2003... and they have already launched 2 of them! He said that the third and final phone is going to be a Kyocera phone and that there was no indication that the Samsung SCH-i600 would be released before the 1st quarter of 2004. Has anyone heard anything to disprove this terrible rumor???