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Setting aside the naming confusion, this Nokia prototype procured by Negri Electronics just keeps attracting our attention. Though we saw plenty of it in an earlier video, this latest rendezvous between Finnish hardware and camera lens includes a few familiar suspects to offer us the best size comparison we’ve had so far. Squaring up against a 3.5-inch iPhone 4, the QWERTY slider from Nokia seems barely any larger from the front though quite a bit thicker from the side — an expansion justified by its inclusion of a physical keyboard. It does a lot better when compared to the EVO 4G and the departing iPhone 3GS, looking only marginally chunkier than those keyboard-less devices. Don’t take our word for it though — skip past the break and see for yourself.

P.S. — The UI on this device looks to us a lot more like Symbian^3 than the S60 the narrator believes it’s running, leading us to think that this is most likely a keyboard-equipped variant of the N8.

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Nokia (N9 / N8-01?) prototype sized up against iPhone 4 and EVO 4G on video originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Uh oh. There’s been a tiny little hitch in the latest EVO 4G update, which has resulted in a number of people finding their superphones becoming unusable. Aside from rooted handsets having their predictable woes with new official software, some users have found that applying the update twice bricked their phones, stock OS and all. That’s pretty worrying, particularly when you consider that checking for updates after a successful install gives you the option to apply it all over again. Sprint and HTC have acted quickly to pull the OTA for the moment, and promise to restore it as soon as its lethal streak has been ironed out:

While the vast majority of consumers successfully downloaded and installed the most recent HTC EVO 4G software update, we have received a handful of reports from customers having some issues with the update. In light of this, HTC and Sprint have decided to temporarily halt distribution of this software release until we can investigate further. We expect to be able to resume software updates shortly.

In the mean time, let’s all just sit, wait, and hope the sky doesn’t fall on our heads.

Sprint halts EVO 4G update due to reports of it bricking phones originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We don’t know exactly what’s included, but Sprint’s sending out that rumored over-the-air Android software update to HTC EVO 4G devices this morning. It’s labeled as version 1.47.651.1, and it’s just 21.43MB, so we’re guessing it’s just mostly bug fixes, but word on the street was that it would “enhance” WiFi, so there’s a chance it could enable the EVO’s 802.11n support, and we’re also hoping for some improved battery life. We’ll update you once we see some release notes, but in the meantime let us know how it goes, yeah?

Update: Release notes have been posted, and they’re just as expected — and unfortunately, we still don’t have confirmation on whether “improvements to WiFi performance” means 802.11n. Check the full notes after the break.

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HTC EVO 4G gets an OTA software update originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It looks like EVO 4G users will soon have one more thing to smile about, as Sprint has just announced that an Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) upgrade will indeed be coming to the “superphone.”

With the Android 2.2 upgrade, customers can expect improvements to include the following benefits: updates to user interface, improved EAS Support, improved browser performance, including Flash 10x Support, voice dialing over Bluetooth and application storage on external memory.

No word on a timeframe yet, but you’ll know as soon as we do — promise.

Update: According to this tweet from the carrier: “HTC EVO will be updated to Android 2.2; Samsung Moment & HTC Hero will not. Future devices launching w/ 2.1 will be also be updated to 2.2.”

Sprint: EVO 4G users getting Android 2.2 ‘in the near future’ (Update: No upgrade for Moment, Hero) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Whatever the reason HTC instituted that 30fps cap on the EVO’s graphical output, the issue has just been remedied by — surprise, surprise — coders over at xda-developers. We’ve come across video evidence of the EVO 4G rolling along at a swift 54fps average clip, and another motion picture reel shows the positive effect this has had on the touch-tracking of the handset. Check them both out after the break and hit the source to get educated on how to make this happen on your own EVO. You should be warned that there are still some issues to resolve before the whole thing’s buttery smooth, but hey, it’s still a lot better than waiting for HTC to do it.

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EVO 4G loses 30fps limit thanks to devoted community (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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