From Verizon Touch Pro to Sprint version... is it really that much better?

[pastafarian]

Nice comparison! I commend you for your work. Now a few slight criticisms.

1- My new in the sealed box Sprint Touch Pro came with ONE battery. As for VZW charging more for less? Duh!
2- The build quality, screen and button differences can all be explained as being within the build quality tolerance. I have no inside information, but I'd bet the farm that the buttons, screens and everything else beside the shell and the ram module are identical between models. I had 5 moguls and each was a little different than the others.
3- I'm not surprised that 96mb of ram didn't make a earth shattering difference. OTH, you're testing is like comparing how a 192hp car and a 288hp model perform at speed, on a road with a 70mph speed limit. Also, the VZW rom probably sets a smaller pagepool (6-8mb for VZW, 20-26mb Sprint)than the Sprints, in order to save memory. Using the VZW rom on the Sprint TP removes one of its bigger advantages.
4- There are Sprint fanboys?

The GPS lock times are curious, possibly Sprint allows some sort of aGPS while VZW does not? The other possibility is that the GPS chip in the VZW model wasn't up to snuff.

Thanks for the post!