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Originally Posted by Procter

I just got a "new" replacement Tp2 from Sprint. It arrived in the retail package, however it didn't seem right from my previous experience of new phones.

1. Battery is unwrapped - WIERD!

2. There are tons of dust particles on the screen protector which seems like it has been removed before and got very dusty. - WIERD!

3. Once powered up, it did not ask me to do the touch screen alignment etc, but directly boot into WM OS. - Normal Operation on TP2

4. There is a strange number 000-000-677 associated with the voicemail when I clicked on the dialer. - Normal Operation on TP2, just means the phone is not programmed yet.

5. ##778# shows that it's produced in 02/10, and never gone through refurb process. The life time counter is 0 with timer of 0, so no one has used it to do a voice call before. But there has been data usage already (2mb in received and 2mb in transmitted). Not out of the ordinary

Sprint CS argued that the 667 is a special number HTC used to program the phone and it does use small amount of data. But I do not recall my first Tp2 showing anything like that. Probably did but you were not looking at that becuase you KNEW it was a brand new phone.

Is this a used phone judging from my observation? TIA.

I think its new.