This item is an excerpt from my weekly Vegas Seven column
The HTC Evo 4G will be available this summer
When a phone trade show comes to town, we expect the news to revolve around phones. When the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s annual showcase, International CTIA Wireless 2010, visited Las Vegas recently, one phone in particular—a 4G darling from HTC—grabbed most of the headlines.
The buzz-worthy HTC Evo 4G is the nation’s first 3G/4G Android phone. This very fast and very functional mobile phone is set to debut on the Sprint network this summer—an appropriate time since this phone is hot. While it’s not 115 degrees in the shade, it does have a 4.3-inch screen (the iPhone’s is 3.5-inches), two cameras (one 1.3-megapixel lens faces the user for social media needs—look at me!—while the other one on the back is robust, at 8 megapixels), it runs on the increasingly popular Android operating system (30,000 apps and growing) and it is the first smartphone in the U.S. to run at 4G speeds.
What does 4G mean? Well, if you have pretty good broadband speeds in your house, this phone will operate at about the same pace. So, if the cable company offers 5-megabit download speeds, for example (yes, you can get more and, yes, speeds vary depending on where you are), a 4G phone will closely match that speed and function as fast as, say, your computer. A 3G phone, by comparison, offers about 2-megabit download speeds and is therefore about half as fast.
Sprint and HTC haven’t said how much this phone will cost, but I would expect it to fall in the $199-$299 range. It will be available through Sprint, as well as Radio Shack, Best Buy and Wal-Mart stores.
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