Verizon to produce iPhone killer?

[PeterB]

What do you guys make of this?:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2007-05-21-at&t-iphone_N.htm

"Given Apple's cultlike following, however, Verizon isn't taking any chances. Strigl says Verizon is already working with a manufacturer — he declines to say which one — on an answer to the iPhone."