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Sprint Unveils HTC Evo 4G Super Phone
adeelarshad82 writes "Sprint dropped a bombshell on the CTIA Wireless trade show by unveiling the most powerful Google Android smartphone ever seen in the USA, the WiMAX-powered Evo 4G. The phone runs Android 2.1 on a 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8650 chipset along with a helpful 1GB of built-in memory and 512MB of RAM, which is assisted by a MicroSD slot supporting up to 32GB cards. It swaps between EVDO Rev. A, WiMAX and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g on demand. The phone is dominated by a 4.3-inch, 800-by-480 65,000-color TFT LCD capacitive touch screen. There's an 8-megapixel camera on the back and a 1.3-megapixel unit on the front. The camera also records 720p, high-def video, which it can play through an HDMI out jack on the bottom. The Evo 4G weighs 170g and measures 120.5 mm by 67 mm by 13 mm. It's expected to hit the market in the summer."
I, for one, welcome our new HD Video Recording, 720p over HDMI, kick stand in the back, 4+" screen, snapdragon processor having, 4G blazing, media center staple overlords.
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No, it drops back to existing standards. If you understand the tech specs in the article it is pretty obvious. Do you think when 3G came out that phones ONLY worked on the few towers that supported that specific standard? No way!
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per TFA, ..."swapping between EVDO Rev. A, WiMAX and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g on demand." and "The Evo 4G will swap between 3G and WiMAX for data depending on what's available"
It works just fine on the marketing networks such as 3g and 4g, and on the networks everyone else knows and loves, ev-do rev. A and wimax
That it would be true if it was 4G only. Apparently the words "switchable on demand to EVDO Rev. A" did not penetrate for you.