What you need to know:

• Sprint and HTC Corporation today announced summer availability of the world’s first 3G/4G Android handset, HTC EVO 4G exclusively from Sprint.
• HTC EVO 4G is a great device for business because it addresses the primary needs of the business customer with the speed of 4G, including the ability to be used as a mobile hotspot, EAS functionality and the power and potential of the Android operating system and applications.
• From the small business that is currently using Gmail and simple productivity applications to the more sophisticated enterprise that requires EAS and the ability to create innovative applications with a complete, open-software platform, HTC EVO 4G will provide an increase in productivity and efficiency.

Why Sprint?

• Sprint 4G offers a faster wireless experience than any other U.S. national wireless carrier, and Sprint is the only national carrier offering wireless 4G service today in 27 markets.
• Sprint 4G delivers download speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G, giving HTC EVO 4G the fastest data speeds of any U.S. wireless device available today.

Key features:

• America’s first and only 3G/4G handset
• Multimedia – Unprecedented experience on a phone
  • Industry-leading 4.3″ multi-touch display
  • Dual cameras including a 8.0MP primary and 1.3MP front facing, opening up new frontiers for mobile workers to obtain high quality images and relay important information
  • World class HTML browsing experience with the bandwidth and quality that rivals that of netbooks for enhanced access to information
• 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot capability – capable of connecting up to 8 employees with Wi-FI enabled devices
• HD capable
  • Download, view, edit, and share HD-quality content from your phone
  • Output pictures, slides, and videos in HD (HDMI output @720p) for powerful presentations
• Android 2.1 Operating System
  • Access to more than 230,000 apps on Android Market
  • Allows for free adaptation and the ability to create innovative applications – A Sprint 4G developer guide is available today from the Sprint ADP Web site giving business customers the tools they need to develop to Android 2.1
• HTC Sense – Award winning user interface provides for a short learning and adoption curve and an enhanced user experience
• Email, calendar and other business functionality including compatibility with EAS, Gmail and top business applications
  • EAS features include many important capabilities including security features, attachment viewing, calendar and contact Synchronization and global address lookup

For more information:

www.sprint.com/evo.

2. We’re Adding More 4G Markets While Competitors Scramble and Stumble

Let AT&T and Verizon yak about maps and 3G coverage, we’re moving forward with what customers want – lightening fast and uncapped 4G service.

Today, we announced seven more major markets that will see 4G in 2010: Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and St. Louis. These cities are in addition to 4G launches for 2010 that we announced last month: Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

We have thousands of Sprint employees in these 14 cities; now is the time for you to be 4G ambassadors to your family, friends and associates!

We’re on pace to equip an expected 120 million people by the end of the year with a mobile Internet experience that is unparalleled, especially for those using an Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot and a Sprint 3G/4G USM Modem. We’ll soon announce many new 4G devices, including a single-mode 4G data card, embedded laptops and a 4G phone.

For those keeping score, Sprint will have more than 40 major markets with 4G service by the end of the year while Verizon is still testing LTE. And right now for AT&T and Verizon? A combined nada. Zip. Zero. Their customers can still poke along on 3G which is fine if you’ve got lots of time and do not mind waiting to access the Web while you’re on the move.

So let’s celebrate! Hop on Sprint Space and tell others what you intend to do to blanket the nation with 4G news.