EVO 4G

As a mobile plat­form, the EVO 4G's Android foun­da­tion is still an infant — well, okay, per­haps it's a tweener — but in its two-odd years in the pub­lic spot­light, the list of truly rev­o­lu­tion­ary devices to use it has been a sig­nif­i­cant one: the G1 for being the first to mar­ket; the Nexus One for ush­er­ing in a new (and sub­se­quently killed) retail model; per­haps the CLIQ for intro­duc­ing Motorola to the plat­form or the Droid for bring­ing the com­pany some des­per­ately needed, long over­due suc­cess. For the moment, any­way, a whop­ping frac­tion of the world's most impor­tant phones are run­ning Google's lit­tle exper­i­ment. Read More

Needless to say, Sprint, HTC, and quite frankly, many of us have come to expect the EVO 4G to join that short list for some obvi­ous rea­sons. Put sim­ply, its mag­nif­i­cent list of specs reads as though it was scrib­bled on a nap­kin after a merry band of gad­get nerds got tipsy at the water­ing hole and started riff­ing about their idea of the ulti­mate mobile device: a 1GHz Snapdragon proces­sor, 4.3-inch WVGA dis­play, 8 megapixel cam­era with 720p video record­ing, HDMI-out, and WiMAX com­pat­i­bil­ity. Of course, the list of poten­tial deal-breakers for a phone is as long as the EVO 4G's dis­play is wide; to put it another way, there are count­less ways HTC, Sprint, or even Google could've screwed this thing up. So does this mod­er­ately intim­i­dat­ing black slab of pure engi­neer­ing and mar­ket­ing — this high-profile bet on Sprint's future — deliver the goods? Read on. Read More

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HTC EVO 4G review orig­i­nally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 May 2010 21:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read More

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