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.

HTC Arrive to Hit the Market on March 20, Explore Tomorrow...

The first Windows Phone 7 handset of Sprint will hit the market on March 20. We are talking about the HTC Arrive that will have a price tag of $199.99. The mobile device will be offered with a two-year contract of the carrier.

The HTC Arrive is a slider smartphone that was announced last October under the name of the HTC 7 Pro. The handset is equipped with a physical QWERTY keyboard that is able to tilt up when it is fully opened. Customers can now pre-order the smartphone at some Sprint stores.

T-Mobile and AT&T USA have been offering Windows Phone 7 handsets, such as the HTC Surround since last November. Verizon Wireless and Sprint disclosed last year that they would support the Microsoft operating system.

The HTC Arrive is based on the same WP7 interface that is already available on other devices. The interface comes with a start screen along with live tiles and hubs, which are used to streamline access to social networks, pictures, games, applications, music as well as Microsoft software. With the live tiles you will know pending appointments, news, messages as well as weather updates.

The HTC Arrive is powered by a Qualcomm 1 GHz Snapdragon processor. It is equipped with a 3.6-inch touchscreen. The handset is supportive to full HTML Web browsing capabilities with Maps as well as Bing Search. There is access to corporate Exchange e-mail. The smartphone features a 5 MP camera. It has Wi-Fi and it is supportive to 16 GB of internal storage. Integration to Zune and Xbox Live is also possible with Microsoft Office Mobile.

Apart from the Everything Data plan, Sprint will also require $10 monthly premium data add-on charge which is required on the carrier’s smartphone. The Everything Data plan starts at $69.99 per month.