[Lucasblack]

Hey everybody, please excuse my ignorance here, but I can't seem to find any reliable info on this.
I have Sprint Cell service, by buddy upgraded his phone and gave me his old verizon treo 700w , I would like to give this phone to my wife and activate it on the sprint network. I have pieced together some info and the only thing that people seem to agree on is that it can be done but the phone would only work with the phone funtionality, all the data/sms etc. would be disabled. Does anyone have any experience with this? Can it be done and how would I go about activating the phone on Sprint? The local Sprint store chick just said " Nope, we only activate Sprint phones." Thanks for any help on this! Also is there a way to get the data working too?