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White EVO 4G Available to All

Best Buy’s exclusive white EVO 4G deal has come to an end.  Now, consumers are able to purchase the white EVO 4G in sprint stores, Radio Shack and another retailers including Best Buy.  This is good news for those who prefer making their EVO purchases via Sprint officially.  The EVO 4G is still set at [...]

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Evo 4G with Android 2.2 Root Access

You all knew it was coming.  When Sprint and HTC released the Android 2.2 update for the EVO 4G, it successfully removed root access to all those users looking to get a little more out of their ‘Droid.  Well fret no more users, once again the good people of XDA Developers have found a way [...]

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EVO 4G OTA Update for Early Adopters

Were you one of the adventure seekers who installed the unofficial “.3″ Android 2.2 update to your EVO 4G?  If so, Sprint and HTC are here to bail you out with an OTA update that will pull all your unofficial updates into the official update world bringing you from Android 2.2 version 3.26.651.3 to version [...]

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Android 2.2 Released for EVO 4G

Android 2.2 Released for EVO 4G

Sprint and HTC have gone and made a great move by getting Android 2.2 out to all the EVO 4G owners ahead of the rest of the group of Android phones still awaiting the 2.2 update.  That is, all but the Nexus One.  Starting Aug 1st, users can manually update their EVO 4G or wait [...]

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White Evo 4G at Best Buy in July

If you have been having troubles getting your hands on the black Evo 4G, it just got a little more interesting.  If you are interested in a white version, you might want to hold off a little and reset your self.  It looks as if Best Buy Mobile will be carrying a white version of [...]

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Evo 4G in Stock Online, Some Retailers

Evo 4G in Stock Online, Some Retailers

The Evo 4G ordering page at Sprint.com states they have Evos in stock again.  Get ‘em while you can.  I called some local Sprint stores and they are still taking waiting lists, some a few orders deep.  I was in a local Wal-Mart and saw two Evo 4G phones in their inventory case on Tuesday [...]

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Evo 4G Sets Sales Record at Sprint

“…the total number of HTC EVO 4G devices sold on launch day was three times the number of Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre devices sold over their first three days on the market combined.” – Sprint PR That pretty much sums up how excited Sprint is over the latest Android super phone released to the [...]

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Qik is Slow with Evo 4G Slamming the Servers

Qik is having a little issue with supporting the record breaking number of Evo 4Gs sold over the weekend.  Qik had anticipated an increase in traffic through it’s servers, but to put it in their words, “It truly is beyond what we had imagined.” There was a little issue with getting the Qik app on [...]

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Sprint Evo4 Chipset, QSD8650, Supports GSM and HSPA

Sprint Evo4 Chipset, QSD8650, Supports GSM and HSPA

The QSD8650 that will come inside each Sprint/HTC Evo 4G phone supports a number of networks, including CDMA2000 1X, 1xEV-DO Rel 0/A/B, GSM, GPRS, EDGE and HSPA networks.  However, it’s almost guaranteed that you won’t be able to use over half of those networks because the phone will lack the right amplifiers and/or antennas.  I’ve [...]

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Sprint Evo 4G – Questions of Pricing and Hardware

When a brand new, ground-breaking gadget is first introduced to the world, often times we are so blinded by the light, we miss some of the details, such as it was with the Sprint Evo 4G.  The Evo is a monster of a cell phone with features that were only recently dreamed of, but now [...]

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