The HTC EVO 4G has landed, and it is the face of the highly anticipated Android smartphone of the year she has a lot to live up to. Packing a 4.3-inch WVGA touch screen capacitive, like his cousin HTC HD2, along with Android 2.1 with HTC Sense, an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, 3G and WiMAX Rev.A both EVDO and 720p HD video recording with an HDMI port, is also the data enough to prompt uncontrollable drooling. First impressions count with a smartphone like this, so check out our unboxing and hands-on feedback after the cut.
Like the HD2, EVO 4G is not a small handset. With about 13mm thick, it is a little rounder than the HD2 – probably a side effect is increased incorporation into the WiMAX radio and all the other features – but both have the same width of the giant screen, adds up to quite a dominant phone. Image quality is bright, crisp, color-rich and generally excellent, and responds to the touch screen. Meanwhile, in contrast to the occasionally temperamental buttons below the display are the EVO 4G’s checks to make far more easily and we have not found us, several times to tap to register for them.
In the box there is not exactly a flood of accessories to find a bar the usual HTC USB charger, a USB to microUSB cable together to supply power and data connections, a 8GB microSD card and a 1500 mAh battery, with the usual brief printed documentation. Most conspicuous by its absence, a HDMI cable is double frustrating, as the EVO 4G has a smaller micro-HDMI connection, you can not imagine many owners fit cable.
The 1GHz processor Qualcomm Snapdragon keeps things moving as fast as we expected, and 2.1 Android gets the usual out-of-the-box appeal from HTC Sense. How on HD2 HTC’s keyboard – complete with text input and auto-completion – perfect, even in portrait mode, thanks to the expansive screen. Meanwhile, network speed is also more than satisfied, we are more in-depth examination of the coverage, what we see WiMAX work, but the first impressions are that to load Web pages more like desktop speeds than what we used to 3G.
Of course, we will get the HTC EVO 4G through its paces in the full contribution SlashGear very soon, so stay tuned for that. Meanwhile, Sprint and Radio Shack have strengthened with the official prices for the phone: You can pre-order it now for $ 199.99 with a new, two-year contract.
