I got mine from Sprint.com. I haven't had any physical damage. I've had it over four months now, and lately I've been getting some freezes using the installed gingerbread keyboard.

I haven't heard of anyone having this kind of problem with the gingerbread keyboard on their phone, so I believe the problem is with my phone. I think a replacement is in order.

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Sorry, but I'm in the "If everyone feels this is a stupid poll and a waste of time, I'm ok with that. " camp. Entire production runs don't go to any particular vendor and all newly made phones will be of the latest revision, which is 0004 currently. My educated guess is that the prevailing issues with this phone (light leakage, button cracking, usb breakage) are not significant, though they obviously exist. Forums like this are almost electron microscopes for problems. If an issue hits even a couple of percent of users, this place goes berserk. Nothing like that has happened with this phone. Anyone considering an Evo at this point should be more concerned with buying a device near the end of it's production than any physical problems it may have.

FWIW, I bought my 003 Evo used from an individual through this site and it has no issues.

 

I don't think its remotely likely that you would get a good enough random sampling to give anything like a statistically valid result - 4 phone versions, a dozen sources for the phone - you'd need thousands of responses before you could see a trend, if there was one. What's the likely-hood that Radio Shack gets phones of lesser quality than Best Buy? Maybe if you just asked the quality question about the 4 versions of the phone? But even then, how do you control for age of phone and amount of use? Sure, maybe version 1 phones have more issues than version 4, but they're also the oldest.