Sprint has announced its first 4G smartphone, the EVO 4G, will go on sale on June 4th. The price will be $199 after the typically annoying $100 mail-in-rebate. Reportedly, just as with some recent hot phones, Best Buy will apply the rebate upon checkout, and save you effort.
The EVO 4G is an Android phone. It will use the 1GHz Snapdragon CPU seen on many of the recent Android phones, and be a WiMAX phone. WiMax coverage is limited, and you have to pay $10 extra for it. The advantage is it also gets you truely unlimited data rather than the 5GB allocated to 3G plans.
For those just wanting 3G, the EVO 4G will require an Everything Data Plan, which starts at $69.99 per month. Other specs on the phone include a forward- facing 1.3 Megapixel camera for video-conferencing, an 8MP camera for shooting photos and videos and a 4.3-inch touch-screen.
You can also share your WiMAX connection if you pay another $30. That mobile hotspot capability will allow up to eight other devices to connect via Wi-Fi.
All the perks add up to quite a bit. One good thing about the WiMax technology is that unlike the CDMA technology standard, it allows simultaneous voice and data. However, Sprint only has 4G in 32 markets, but the carrier has announced plans to expand up to 18 additional markets by the end of 2010.
Written by Michael Santo
Huliq.com
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