[PPCFreak]

getting sprint to see a different more current smart phone as a TP2 would not work unless you are going to do ESN swapping / Cloning which that talk is not allowed in these forums and is not legal at any carrier that I am aware of.

as far as hardware hacking the TP2 to change the CPU/RAM, you would need a great deal of equipment to unsolder/resolder the CPU or RAM to the board and then would need new set of instructions/ROM and other firmware items to get the TP2 to even recognize the new hardware much less actually use the new hardware.

I for one would love to see more internal RAM (this might be the easier of the two items to hack but still very difficult).