advice on TP@

[inferno1]

Hey everyone, i currently have a touch diamond and was thinking on switching to the TP2 since i love all the custom roms ive been playing with, and want to stay with the WM6.5 HTC devices...

questions
im on verizon, so correct me if im wrong, but i would need to buy either a verizon or sprint model right? (are there any other carrier models i could use)

on the diamond, the verizon model was gimped compared to the alltel version i have, is that the same for the TP2, or are they all the same hardware wise?

are there any issues with the GPS? with a custom ROM, should it work with google maps fine? ( i did see a note about GPS lag, but i could deal with that as long as it reliably locked in a short amount of time)

any other issues/comments i should know about?
thanx for all the help
-Danny