When will the HTC diamond be released? and will it be released under Verizon wireless?

i have verizon, and its very unreasonable to buy out of my contract, just to switch to another service. But this HTC diamond that ive been hearing so much about seems well worth it. will it be available to verizon wireless customer? and when will the phone be released. is it really better than the iPHONE?|||The phone is out for a lot of time now but there isn;t any news of the phone coming to Verizon...the 3g iphone isn;t out yes so i really can;t compare these two phones...and Verizon is coming out with a new phone too "LG Dare" check it out!! seems like a cool phone.