Sprint Launches First 4G Phone

Sprint Launches First 4G Phone, HTC Evo 4G (Phone Scoop)

Sprint Launches First 4G Phone, HTC Evo 4G
Yesterday, 3:47 PM by Philip Berne updated Yesterday, 6:07 PM

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, speaking at CTIA Wireless 2010 in Las Vegas, launched the first phone to take advantage of the carrier's WiMAX network. The HTC Evo 4G is an Android smartphone with a 4.3-inch screen, similar in size and shape to the Windows Mobile-powered HTC HD2. The phone features HD video recording and an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash. It also includes a 1.3 megapixel user-facing camera for video sharing features. To watch HD videos on a larger screen, the phone also features an HDMI output. The interface is the newest HTC Sense UI concept for Android, including the new friend stream feature that aggregates updates from a variety of social networking sites, including Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. Inside, the phone uses the 1 GHz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. The phone will also use Adobe Flash in the Web browser.

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