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My wife went from the TP2 to the Epic and she's pretty ambivalent about it. There are some things she likes, some things she hates and some things that still don't seem to work quite right, but in a different way that the TP2 screwed up the mobile-phone-as-almost-notebook-replacement experience.
She likes:
1.) The responsiveness of the phone - no lag like the TP2.
2.) The screen, and I have to say that I am jealous of the AMOLED.
She hates:
1.) The lack of MS Office apps. The ones they have always corrupt e-mail attachments and don't seem to be fully fleshed out to really replace Pocket Office.
2.) There are a litany of applications she used on her TP2 that simply aren't available (yet) on the Android. The list is really too long to mention here, but one notable one is Bing. She says the Bing app is FUBARed on the Epic.
3.) The consistently poor battery life. We've mitigated this a bit with some tweaks and with Juice Defender, but it was quite a surpise when the first few days were off-the-charger to low-battery-warning in 3 hours. Now she gets about 8 or 9 hours with normal usage.
The things that are still screwed up, but in a different way:
1.) It randomly dumps the Yahoo inbox.
2.) It will randomly screw up the settings of other accounts where the account has to be deleted and recreated.

I have been contemplating the switch, but the big turn-off is the lack of a dual-band radio. My company is based in Sweden and I regularly travel to Europe and Canada where CDMA is non-existent. I thought that the advent of the TP2 heralded a new era in Sprint where their top-end phones were going to always be dual-band (a.k.a. "world phones"), but it seems to me that they have regressed a bit by now only getting CDMA-only phones...and a CrackBerry is NOT an satisfactory option, nor are any other of their stripped-down world phones. If it wasn't for the fact that the GSM service in Dallas sucks so bad, I would be seriously tempted to just switch services.
Anyway, sorry to rant, but I thought that I would throw in my $0.02.