[bast525]

I know 110% for a fact that this phone was brand new. I basically watched him open it. It came in the fancy Sprint box with all the accessories still wrapped in plastic.

Also, you can see a systems hours of run time when you run EPST, and unless they reset that when they refurb it, it accurately showed just over an hour when I was in EPST hacking it for VZW.

Another also, another of my friends/coworkers also has the Sprint TP, first was running Juicy 4.7 but now is running the Silence or Silent Rom, we have done side-by-side comparisons and his phone is not any faster.

For those who just don't want to beleive it is possible, I dont know what else to say. I am being as unbiased as can be... remember, I laid out my money to buy a Sprint TP, even thoug I already own a VZW TP, because I too was convinced the Sprint would be faster. For anyone else who is considering doing this same "trade" I fully encourage you to do so (the monetary risk is low, I already have two interested buyers willing to pay what I paid) and try them side by side in a fair way (obviously a completely different ROM or OS Build is not apples to apples), and make your own decision. You will probably still take the Sprint just for the better looks and keyboard, but you will at least see for yourself that there is no big discrepancy in performance.