Earlier you were only feasting your eyes on giant EVO 4G android beast, now you can hold it in your hands. The wait is over now, America’s first 4G smartphone HTC EVO 4G by Sprint is now commercially available for purchase from Sprint online webstore. EVO 4G is retailing for $199 on two year contract (after $150 instant savings and $100 mail-in rebate) with a limit of 5 phones per user, to avoid black marketing of course.
Umm..! I knew you won’t like the deal! Mail-in-rebates are always whacky wherein you need to pay $299.99 for buying EVO, with $100 rebate check to come in the mail after few weeks. Instead, you may head over to Walmart, Best Buy or Radio Shack stores who are offering the HTC EVO 4G for $199.99 with a two-year contract without any mail-in-rebates.
Bundled with all the HTC Sense features, HTC EVO 4G will add some new features, Qik, including Friend Stream, a social media aggregator for Facebook and Twitter into one organized flow of updates, interactive widgets, and a “polite” ringer, which quiets the ringing phone once lifted up. The phone is running Android 2.1 operating system (though you can install android 2.2 froyo on EVO), and more than 35,000 apps will be available for the device.
Technical specification wise, HTC EVO 4G features adobe flash supported Android OS 2.1, 480 x 800 4.3-inch TFT LCD display with QSD8650 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 1GB of storage, and 512MB of RAM, 8.0 MP auto-focus camera, HD video capture, HDMI output, Mobile Hotspot capability and more. It is important to note that EVO 4G supports both 3G and 4G and whenever you enter into 3G enabled city, your smartphone will be automatically switch to 3G network without any hassle. The access speed of 4G network is almost 4 times faster than the 3G networks.
We already know that Sprint’s EVO 4G is the most robust Android handset to date and as powerful as the Droid Incredible but its 4G WiFi hotspot capability makes it most powerful android. Recently, Fring rolled out its updated software to Fring 2.1 supporting two-way video calling feature for android phones with front facing camera like EVO 4G. Do not forget to check it out! So, what are you waiting for, order your HTC EVO 4G right now before it goes out of STOCK!
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