HTC EVO

The 25th annual CTIA Wireless show which was held in Las Vegas earlier this year has been a huge success, spotlighting the major trends of the cellular industry and other mobile wireless technologies. The exhibition brought together carriers, equipment manufacturers, service providers, software companies and more than 1000 vendors who showed their wares.

Leading cell phone manufacturers such as Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson showed off the latest models. But one of the most important announcements came from HTC who unveiled its new EVO WiMAX, a handset, which can easily be considered as one of the most powerful devices that is available on the market right now.

Statistics suggests, Smart Phones covered just about 21% of all mobile sales last year (2009) but nevertheless, the adoption is increasing day by day and according to experts, with releases this year as big as the HTC Evo 4G, that is the first official phone with support for next generation networks, Smart Phone volumes will over power the more common features and low-end phones in sales, by the end of this year.

The HTC EVO features a 4.3 inch touchscreen along with two digital cameras (principal one being 8 Mega pixel that can shoot video at 720p and 1.3 Mega pixel back for teleconferencing). Comparatively It is actually big in size measuring 121.92 x 66.04 x 12.7mm and weighing 170g. The 3G/4G handset runs traditional CDMA 2000 radio standards and additionally features WiMax with Voice Over Internel Protocol (VoIP). Processor is a 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon and it also got support for Adobe Flash. Like HD2, Evo acts as a Wi-Fi hub so that users can share 4G connection and can get all the all the sensors and features that they expect from a smartphone.