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Verizon would love to to have people move over with phones that they already own. That is free money to them. Phone carriers already have money built into your plan that pays for the 'discounted' phone. There is not much that they can do to restrict you from going to another carrier, unless they put something in the contract that forces you to keep it on a certain provider. Even then there is a limit on what they can do.

And Sprint did not jack up their PDAs, they left them the same. IF the Verizon version is different, it is because the downgraded and not because Sprint upgraded. Sprints specs are the same as the HTC specs.

You can also get the official ROMs for other providers too. I was able to get them from Verizon. I called them up and said that I had a phone that was out of warranty, but the ROMs somehow got corrupted. They sent me their ROMs to install on a PPC phone. I was just doing this to test that I could get the ROMs if i needed to if I buy a touch pro from Sprint if the Verizon version is gimped.