We’ve been rumoring a WiMAX “HTC Supersonic” for the whilst rightaway, and Sprint only forsaken the hard headlines: the phone will be dubbed the HTC EVO 4G, will be expelled this Summer as well as it’s easily a best specced phone we’ve ever witnessed. A hardware is of utterly viewable HD2 descent, though with Android onboard and alittle nice cultured tweaks, a EVO 4G takes upon the life of its own. The handset is centered around the 480 x 800 4.3-inch TFT LCD, with the Snapdragon QSD8650 1GHz processor underneath a hood A CDMA version of the QSD8250 in a HD2 and Nexus One, and even the beneficial 1GB of built-in mentalrecall and 512MB of RAM — hello app storage! Even a battery is bigger than a HD2, and a camera is an 8 megapixel sight with flash, that’s able of 720p video, as well as is protracted by the 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for great magnitude. The phone features HDMI out (though you’ll need an adapter for branch it into the TV-familiar HDMI block, 802.11b/g WiFi, and an 8GB microSD card. There’s which still-rare Android 2.1 underneath an updated chronicle of HTC’s Clarity UI. Though… despite all these wild features, what actually sets a EVO 4G apart is a fact which it’s Sprint’s initial 4G phone. A handset runs the combo of EV-DO Rev. A as well as WiMAX, with calls still being done over CDMA and a EV-DO / WiMAX options for interpretation. Interestingly, it sounds similarto concurrent data and voice use competence be probable for the first time upon CD MA conduit in this approach Murdering AT&T’s well-advertised differentiator), yet Sprint says that’s still in the contrast prov iso. One other brandnew feature is the Sprint hotspot app, another MiFi-style tie sharing number, that is patently aided greatly by a WiMAX on house as well as can support up to 8 concurrent users. Follow after a break for our hands-on impressions as well as videos of a phone in movement, including an up-close-and-personal test of the touchscreen setofkeys. Next you’ll find galleries of a phone by its lonesome and up against the Nexus Asingle and iPhone 3G. HTC EVO 4G press shots

HTC EVO 4G hands-on

HTC EVO 4G vs. iPhone vs. Sequence One

You got to play with a phone for an all-too-brief matter of mins, though everything you saw was honestly monumental. The camera does seem to be intruth of the high quality Yet we’ll still be holding on to the compact shooter, appreciate you very most, a screen is ofcourse beautiful, as well as a Clarity UI was as responsive as we’ve seen it, and frankly delicious during this jumbo distance. The capacitive face buttons are flat and almost the little difficult to see due a thin chrome icons, though the earthy buttons (a volume rocker and the energy symbol up tip are very large, tactile as well as friendly. Around back there’s clever, chrome kick mount, as well as when you pop off a cover a battery is surrounded by pleasing “Ferrari red” plastic. A touchscreen setofkeys is positively ginormous, though we’re not certain we’re feeling alittle of the recent things which have been congested in there similarto huge cursor buttons as well as the voice approval button — only because you can fit stuff in there doesn’t mean we should, and they demeanour the small comical during this size. In the contrast we weren’t really able to get a feel for the browsing speed upon WiMAX, though at this indicate we’re essentially eager which it’s ev en an option, and obviously a fanciful speeds have been distant over 3G, with a bunch of brandnew markets due to go online this year. Battery holdup is stated as “allied.”

Our biggest questions during this indicate have been availability and pricing. Scurry is keeping mum, only saying the “Summer” accessibility, as well as interestingly clarified that not only is it not announcing device pricing, though it’s not announcing plan pricing nonetheless possibly — sounds similarto the 4 G-on-a-phone surcharge could be somewhere in the future.