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Samsung’s Galaxy S for Sprint, the Epic 4G, is now on sale.  The WiMAX-enabled smartphone is now available online and in Sprint stores, which open at 8AM today. The Epic 4G features a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor, a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard, and a massive 4-inch Super AMOLED display. The Samsung Epic 4G costs $249.99 [...]

Today Sprint announced availability and pricing info for its second 4G WiMAX smartphone, the Samsung Epic 4G, a Galaxy S smartphone. The Epic 4G will be available August 31 in all Sprint stores, as well as in RadioShack, Best Buy, and Walmart here in the States. Sprint stores will open at 8am on August 31 [...]

Sprint said this morning that it’s opening day sales of the the HTC EVO 4G broke the previous records set by the Palm Pre and Samsung Instinct.  The carrier also said that the 3 day sales total for the EVO were triple those put forth by the Instinct and Pre.  So it seems that in [...]

Over at All Things Digital, Walter Mossberg has recently spent 2 weeks with the HTC EVO 4G. Mossberg used the HTC EVO 4G in both Baltimore and DC. Most of his review focusses on the 4G capabilities of the device, as he rightly claims, this is what Sprint are marketing the device around. He does [...]

In an interview with CNET, Clearwire’s CEO, Bill Morrow, mentioned that both the upcoming Samsung and HTC 4G smartphones that his company will offer later this year will be Android based. In its earnings release last week, only the Samsung device was specified as being Android-based. From the CNET interview: Q: There’s been some talk [...]

As part of its first quarter 2010 earnings report, Clearwire announced that it will offer a 4G WiMAX Android smartphone from Samsung before the end of the year.  This also means we are quite likely to see the same device offered by Sprint as well, since the Clear WiMAX network uses Sprint’s 3G service for [...]

I guess this is both official and a rumor at the same time. Darrin Morton from ozcarguide took a stop by his local Best Buy after the chain-store giant decided to get involved with the HTC Evo 4G. A Best Buy rep, from the Geek Squad, had advised that they will be selling the HTC [...]

Todd Haselton from our sister site Mobileburn.com spent some time with the HTC EVO 4G Android smartphone at Sprint’s press conference today. You have already heard a little bit about this device earlier but now we have some hands on pictures and live video to show you. I wont go into all the details as [...]

The HTC Supersonic has been made official and the handset really lives up to its codename. Now officially dubbed the Sprint HTC EVO 4G, the world’s first Android-powered WiMAX phone sets a new standard for Android devices by rocking the following specifications: 4.3 inch touchscreen Dual 3G/4G connectivity Forward-facing 1.3 megapixel camera Rear-facing 8MP camera [...]

Something fishy is going on at HTC that leds some of us to believe that bad information is being leaked on purpose.  Perhaps HTC is getting tired of all their phones being leaked well in advance of their official announcements.  Two cases have recently popped up showing inaccurate information that has been reported widely by [...]