[draghn]

The hits on battery life are a bit exaggerated in my opinion. As many have said before, the reviewers were using a ton of features and radios on the phone and constantly playing with everything to see how much the phone would lag, what the different settings would do, how wi-fi was, etc.

With the review (from phone arena I think) posted earlier stating that battery life was satisfactorily improved from the Evo, with a decent amount of time using the phone beyond the Evo's use, I am really not worried.

I think the cheap batteries on eBay are worth a shot as an alternative/just-in-case/or simple laziness instead of whipping out a charger for the phone itself.

We will all get plenty of feedback very soon though from this community which will be more valuable to us. Even for those of us that get the phone this week.