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Well I can almost guarantee you that the phone is "done", or will be "done" by May 9th. How do I know this? Well, that's the date that sprint announces the winners of their contest of who'll get an EVO, so they can blog about their experience with it and, in general, just tease the ever living bajesus out of us. It's not like they are going to send the winners beta prototype phones, since you can bet your anxious little hands that they've already done exhaustive in/out-house testing, and for all intents and purposes the phone is done. And if so happens that it needs an update or two, it'll more than likely be released OTA, or by whichever method they do with Android. Plus, I'd imagine they'd let their "winners" sing it's praises for about a week or two before they ship the phone to retailers, then another week or two before they give the retailers the green light to start selling it.

So all in all, I imagine the early June release date rumor to be more-or-less dead on.