May 13

HTC EVO 4G $200, on Sale June 4

Posted in: 4G, Phones, Today's Chili, WiMAX

Sprint’s first 4G smartphone, the EVO 4G, will go on sale June 4 for $200 after a mail-in rebate. (The full price is $450, but if you grab one from Best Buy, you’ll get the discount applied when you buy.)

The Android-powered WiMAX phone runs on the speedy 1-GHz Snapdragon processor, has a front facing 1.3-megapixel camera for video conferencing, an 8-MP cam for shooting photos and videos and a huge 4.3-inch touchscreen. It also requires a special, mandatory data plan. Sign up and you’ll have to pay an extra $10 per month for the 4G access, but this gives you true unlimited data instead of the 5GB limit on regular 3G plans.

Another of the EVO’s best features, the ability to use it to share the WiMAX connection with up to eight other devices by Wi-Fi, will also cost extra. $30 per-month extra, in fact. It will be interesting to see what happens to this plan if and when the EVO is updated from Android 2.1 to 2.2, which has native tethering built in to the OS.

EVO product page [Sprint]

Sprint’s WiMax Plans Have No Data Cap [Phonescoop]

Sprint selling HTC EVO 4G on June 4 for $199 [Engadget]

Contract details [Sprint]

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