[Protonus]

LoL hi from Roclife... it's nice when others use their same alias elsewhere too.
So from someone who's lived in Rochester too as long as he's had a cellphone, like you said, sprint sucks. I've had since before they existed since they bought my previous carrier, Bell Atlantic Mobile. I've never really wanted to switch. Verizon's service and coverage has always been the best around here, hands down.

But it's not just the coverage, but the CLARITY as well. Take an identical phone on both platforms (I did this just last December with the Sprint Mogul vs the Verizon xv6800) and the Verizon phone will sound far better and less compressed.

Also the SPEED of the Rev. A EVDO service is superior on Verizon around here too. That may be just due to the fact that the signal strength is higher, but either way, I use my mobile internet a lot and that's big to me.

As you mentioned, Verizon to Verizon calling is huge, almost everyone I know has a Verizon phone, almost no one my/our age has a home phone anymore, so that means that I use very few of my minutes on a regular basis because the majority of the calls I make are to verizon phones. Furthermore, you get IN texting with a good text plan, so that all your texts are free too, and picture messages, and video messages, as long as it's to a Verizon subscriber.

The Sprint version of this phone is ugly... just throwing that out there too lol.

I just bought a Touch Pro2 to replace my xv6800 and it will be here Tuesday if not Monday. I've been waiting for a device like this since before my xv6800. Can't wait.