[Touch Pro2 CDMA] auTONYmous:
I was a longtime Sprint user years ago (from 97-2004) and I had had my fill of their horrible service, nickel-and-dime billing, and excruciating customer service. I switched to Big Red, who my new wife was a longtime customer of.

Well, a couple of years into a Family Share plan, and $180+/month bills, my employer gave me a Nextel. Then Sprint bought Nextel. Then I started teleworking and realized my Nextel didn't work in my basement office.

So, my employer gets me a plain-jane Sprint ruggedized phone. Not only was that phone bulletproof (a credit to Samsung), but I also had the best call quality ever. No drops (I'd had some on Verizon), Bluetooth and everything worked (again, VZW crippled my previous phone, a Moto V710, and a class-action lawsuit ensued, I got paid...big whoop, phone was never un-crippled), and my customer service experience at the Sprint Stores, 3rd party ASCs, online, and talking to phone reps is ALWAYS A+. They have really, REALLY, noticeably cleaned it up in that department.

Now, I know that Sprint's network coverage isn't (supposedly) as great as VZW, and their technology (CDMA) isn't global, but it really is solid in most parts of the US; read: MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREAS are VERY Good for Sprint, and I've done quite a bit of traveling this past summer to check.

I know this for fact. I just recently took a road trip driving from Las Vegas, NV to Pheonix, AZ; then to Houston, TX; then to Baton Rouge, LA; then to Toledo, OH, then home to Burton, MI. I was either in a Sprint 3G or Sprint 1x area the ENTIRE TIME (except some parts of the AZ/NV/NM desert and west Texas). Weird thing is, I got better signal and was able to place/receive more calls than my wife using her VZW phone. Go figure? 5 bars on Galveston Island at the beach. I've had constant 4-5 bars in both Las Vegas and Chicago, instantly received texts/missed calls/voicemails when turning off airplane mode in Cleveland, Atlanta, Dallas, and St. Louis...always while the plane taxied back to the gate (usually coverage is weak around airport runways, but not with Sprint!). The signal in Chicago might be too good even, as I noticed my battery dies faster whenever I'm there. They must have the towers there doing more polling/beacons (?not sure about this, somebody probably knows more?)

Now, whenever we travel, my wife puts her phone away, and I use my TP for GPS (Google Maps 3.2 FTW!) when driving...or playing Bubble Breaker/Resco Brain Games/Need for Speed. She hates seeing me do it, but appreciates that the TP served as the Garmin on that road trip I mentioned above. I just talked her into getting a VZW Samsung Omnia (shoulda waited for OmniaII). Had the TP2 been a bit cheaper, she might have switched to Sprint. God knows the monthly costs are lower. But, at least now I don't have the excuse "My phone didn't even ring/it went straight to voicemail"...that never happens.

Which reminds me: I owe Da_G/Bepe/Ervius/Calkulin/Conflipper/Nue/NRGZ28/too many other names to list on THIS SITE and PPCGEEKS some bowing and ring-kissing because I know that phone like the back of my hand now.

So, to end my diatribe, as others have before me, I'm now another VERY SATISFIED Sprint Customer, I love my TP, and I can't wait for my TP2 Advanced Exchange to come off backorder.

Who knows...I might even put out a ROM when I get it :D