for what its worth... was at sprint today getting my replacement TP, and got on the topic with the one of the employees there about the TP2. was saying that hes already had the phone is hand from sprint, guess he knows the guy that is doing testing or what not with it. He had nothing but good things to say. One thing he mentioned that i had no idea...from the pics, the keyboard looks like its slides up on an angle when slid open, but i guess it slides open just as the TP does now, but has a tilt feature...just thought that was cool.
anyways, he did in fact confirm the release date being the beginning of sept, but couldn't really talk much more about it at the time.
again...take this info for what its worth