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Sprint Unveils HTC Evo 4G Super Phone

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the spec-escalation dept.

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."

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  1. HDMI jack? by Anonymusing · · Score: 4, Funny

    A phone that records 720p video and plays it out via an HDMI jack? WHY?

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  2. Re:4G only by MrEricSir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually the "4G" refers to the price. I hope they have a payment plan.

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  3. Also.. by AnotherShep · · Score: 4, Funny

    The expected battery life is 20 minutes of standby or 5 minutes of talk. A replacement high-capacity battery adds 104g to the weight of the unit, 20mm to the depth, and extends standby time to 68 minutes and talk time to over 10 minutes.

    1. Re:Also.. by IorDMUX · · Score: 4, Informative

      As a member of Qualcomm's power-management IC engineering team, (and hoping I do not sound like a total shill,) I'd like to point out that battery life and power efficiency is one of the big selling points of the Snapdragon. As opposed to the Intel Atom, which was designed by a desktop/server CPU company, at Qualcomm we're is coming from a background of years of low-power mobile device design.

      Hopefully (though I can't say for certain as full specs have not yet been released), HTC also used our power management platform this time, rather than the third-party, battery-gulping solution they installed on their G1's. That was an embarrassment.

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  4. Re:One flaw... by Kotoku · · Score: 5, Funny

    What? That doesn't even..I can't...you...

    HDMI is a plug. Youtube has a matter replicator in my house now?

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  5. Re:YAY! by spun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In many confidence games, the 'con man' will use 'shills' or assistants who pretend to be independently interested in the swindle or scam. In modern marketing, it is fairly common for companies to identify natural leaders and people with influence, and offer to pay them to fake spontaneous endorsement of the product. Given those facts, any news or commentary relating to commercially available products must be viewed with a healthy amount of skepticism.

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  6. Re:Voice? by ircmaxell · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, yes and no. Voice still goes out over CDMA. What this means to you though, is that when voice is using CDMA, EVDO can't operate (since it uses the same radio). However, it can still use WiMAX and 802.11... So you can use voice and data at the same time, but only if you're in the range of either WiMAX or 802.11... Cool, but not groundbreaking (yet).

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  7. Re:It's a TELEPHONE by Deosyne · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps you'll find more utility in the tools that you purchase if you stop thinking about them in terms of what a marketer told you and what its potential actually is.

  8. Eh by teknopurge · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slower than a Cray. Less storage than a ZFS SAN. Lame.

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  9. Re:YAY! by NeutronCowboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let me clarify the situation for you: every single story on slashdot can be qualified as advertisement. Every. Single. One. That story about WoW reaching 10M+ players? Advertisement for Blizzard. That story about some guy building a bender robot? Advertising for said guy. That story about a fork in the Linux kernel? Advertising for Linux.

    Pointing out that something getting front-page billing on Slashdot is good advertisement for said something is like pointing out the Sun is shining on the Earth: true, but not really useful information. Now, if you would have evidence that Sprint paid CmdrTaco to run this story, this would be an entirely different proposition. However, until you do, you're little more than a blowhard who likes playing Captain Obvious.

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  10. Fuck Everything, We're Doing 5G by gabebillings · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of wireless in this country. The iPhone 3G was the phone to own. Then the other guy came out with the HTC Hero. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the iPhone 3Gs. That's 3G speeds and a fucking compass. For orienteering. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened--the bastards went to 4G. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling the 3G and a fucking compass. Orienteering or no, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to 5G.

  11. Re:Game Changer! by teknopurge · · Score: 4, Funny

    This device really makes the iPhone on the Sprint network all but irrelevant, since it seems it will be available around the same time and has all the specs either equal or better.

    Fixed that for you. Bring-it fanbois.

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