Signed a deal...and released that phone last week. My brother has it. It's actually a beautiful phone, but Bing sucks. Still, it's not Verizon's fault that Google can't get a firm hold on their own OS, and that Microsoft has **** tons of money (you see Bing being market all over the place, they're desperately trying to get people to use it). It is Verizon's fault for blocking it - but not if Microsoft made them agree to do so. Anyway...the Samsung Fascinate (the phone in question - Verizon's version of the Galaxy S series) has already been rooted (and it's extremely easy to do so), so you can get rid of Bing if you really want to. Still, you can also see this as being "totally swell" of Google, for having an open source OS that you can customize and release as you see fit, though the user should be able to customize it, and for the most part, you can.
Anyway, I'm trying to convince him to take it back (he has 30 days) and get Droid X or a Droid Incredible, but the CPU inside the Fascinate (once you get rid of the excess bullshit), is well, fascinating.