As rumoured, the WiMAX "HTC Supersonic" has dropped on Sprint and will be known as the HTC EVO 4G.
Expected release will be released in the next couple of months.
The hardware is of quite obvious HD2 descent, but with Android onboard and some nice aesthetic tweaks, the EVO 4G takes on a life of its own.
The handset is centered around a 480 x 800 4.3-inch TFT LCD, with a Snapdragon QSD8650 1GHz processor under the hood.
It comes with 1GB of built-in memory and 512MB of RAM, plenty of room for app storage, and the battery is bigger than the HD2 too.
The camera weighs in at 8 megapixels with flash, and is capable of 720p video.
If that's not enough, there's a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera for good measure.
The phone features HDMI out (though you'll need an adapter for turning it into a TV-familiar HDMI plug), 802.11b/g WiFi, and an 8GB microSD card.
There's Android 2.1 underneath an updated version of HTC's Sense UI.
The handset runs a combo of EV-DO Rev. A and WiMAX, with calls still being made over CDMA and the EV-DO / WiMAX options for data.
Interestingly, it sounds like concurrent data and voice use might be possible for the first time on a CDMA carrier in this way.
One other new feature is the Sprint hotspot app, another MiFi-style connection sharing number, which is obviously aided greatly by the WiMAX on board and can support up to eight concurrent users.
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