One carrier to rule them all?

From engad­get:

Think you’ll have to wait until June 6^th for all the Pre sur­prises to emerge? Think again. A break­ing Reuters report has just dropped one of the biggest cel­lu­lar bomb­shells of the year: Ver­i­zon Wire­less, America’s largest mobile oper­a­tor, will soon be car­ry­ing Palm’s Pre. Oh, that’s not enough? No wor­ries — it’ll also be sell­ing a “new ver­sion of the touch­screen Black­Berry Storm,” which is obvi­ously the Storm 2 that we’ve been toy­ing around with. The report makes clear that both phones would be cleared for ship­ment in around six months, which cer­tainly jibes with whis­pers we’ve heard about Sprint’s mighty short exclu­siv­ity period. The news came from the company’s Low­ell McAdam, the top exec­u­tive for the ven­ture of Ver­i­zon Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Voda­fone. To quote: “Over the next six months or so you will see devices like Palm Pre and a sec­ond gen­er­a­tion Storm.” First Sprint, then AT&T, and now Ver­i­zon? T-​Mobile, where you at?
[Thanks, E]
Update: Seems Mr. McAdam con­tin­ued on by not­ing that VZW would get the Palm Pre “and a cousin.” Hmm, Eos, any­one?

So Ver­i­zon is get­ting the Palm Pre, the Palm Eos, the Black­berry Storm 2 (now with­out inher­ently lim­it­ing click screen) and we keep hear­ing rumors from trusted sources about Ver­i­zon get­ting some vari­ant of the iPhone. Prob­a­bly not just a CDMA ver­sion of the 3G, as that would poten­tially vio­late their con­tract with AT&T, but I’ve heard rumors that Ver­i­zon may be get­ting either or both the iPad tablet and the iPhone Mini.

Admit­tedly, this is all spec­u­la­tion, but I’ve pointed out before that each major US car­rier seemed to have a stan­dard bearer smart­phone plat­form. Ver­i­zon pushed Black­berry, Sprint had the Pre, AT&T had the iPhone and T-​Mobile had the Android G1. Now it seems Ver­i­zon might be mov­ing to con­sol­i­date every­one else’s mar­quee phones under their own ban­ner. Any­one got any good Android on Ver­i­zon rumors?