I've never seen HTC do a soak for an OS upgrade on Verizon. HTC seems to carry those out on gsm devices. However, they've always done them w/ ota updates. I don't think they need to soak the Rez., the Sensation XE was soaked for nearly a month, then released & began rollout 3 weeks earlier than it was scheduled in the UK. I mention this b/c the SXE is basically a gsm twin of the Rezound.