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the system knows what type of phone it is based on ESN number, so even if you do manage to get your hands on an Evo when you try to swap it into your line the system will trigger a message alerting that plan change is required. i am not positive this will be the case with the Evo, but i don't think ANY of the current Andriod phones are allowed on legacy plans.

i agree, it would be nice if legacy plans customer had the option to buy the phone at full price to be used on older plans but sadly sprint is holding their ground and not allowing any of the Andriods on the network with old plans.

i guess the only way to find out if sprint wants to keep legacy customers is to threaten to cancel, but be prepared to do just that if you don't get your way.. i assume if you are a long time customer (more just a couple years) it may help your case.. however, being on a sero plan doesn't give you much leverage though imo.

it's just a tactic sprint is using to move people away from older plans to try and make more money by getting them to change plans.. i do think it's back firing on them and every year they lose thousands of customers, but they don't seem to care.

when the palm pre was released there were thousands of angry customers that couldn't use their plan.. sprint held their ground and to this day legacy plans weren't allowed to use the Palm pre. sadly, i think the palm failed on sprint because of this. sales would have sky rocketed had they let legacy users buy the phone.

so again, that just shows that they don't really care about old/legacy customers. in reality it's the old customers on legacy plans keeping them in business.. the ROI isn't great when a new customer joins and 2 yrs later switches providers. it's the oldies that keep paying their bills on time every month where sprint makes their money. it's too bad sprint doesn't see things our way.

good luck.