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."

HDMI jack?

[Anonymusing]

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

Re:4G only

[MrEricSir]

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

Re:HDMI jack?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because.

Also..

[AnotherShep]

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.

Re:One flaw...

[Kotoku]

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

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

Re:One flaw...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not YouTube, silly. Google does. They've been busy.

Eh

[teknopurge]

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

Re:It's a TELEPHONE

[alen]

silly, no one talks on the phone anymore. you use a telephone to read email, twitter, facebook and the rest of the internets

Re:Super Phone? Aw, come on.

[kimvette]

Agreed. Today's supercomputer is tomorrow's soft drink can.

Fuck Everything, We're Doing 5G

[gabebillings]

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.

Re:Battery life?

[dwhitman]

Don't worry, it's powered by Orbo.

And that just great until we run out of witches. Doesn't anyone think these things through? It's not scalable.

Re:And in related news no one here cares about...

[Arthur Grumbine]

For Windows Mobile fans...

Fascinating! You seem to be implying that there is more than one!! And I had always thought they were just a myth. What truly amazing times we live in, where such people live right alongside the rest of us, and we don't even know they're there!

Tell me, is it true that you all have fingertips as pointed as sharpened pencils, which allow you to actual use the OS? Or is it, like my friend believes, that you are all atoning for some great, and unspeakable crime? Perhaps you were AOL developers in your past life?
:-P

Re:Game Changer!

[teknopurge]

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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