When talking about LTE connectivity offered by wireless providers in US shores, Verizon is still the league leader in terms of LTE coverage in our side of the world because of the headstart it has over the competition. Coming in at second on the other hand is AT&T while Sprint, whose nascent LTE network only got the green light to go online last July, is at third place. Despite trailing both Verizon and AT&T by miles, Sprint is still pushing forward with its plans in expanding the coverage its LTE network which it hopes to complete by the end of 2013.
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As of the moment, the wireless provider already has 24 metro areas covered by its LTE network with another 100 cities already in the pipeline to also get LTE goodness from Sprint. In line with this, Sprint has recently announced that its LTE network will soon be enjoyed in a handful of locations and these are as follows:
- San Francisco, CA, San Mateo-Redwood City, CA
- Cape Coral-Ft Myers, FL
- Dyersburg-Union City-Martin, TN
- Emporia, KS
- Fort Wayne, IN
- Greenwood, MS
- Joplin, MO
- Kokomo, IN
- Lafayette/West Lafayette, IN
- Lexington Park, MD
- Marion, IN
- Napa, CA
- Naples-Marco Island, FL
- Ottawa-Streator, IL
- Punta Gorda, FL
- Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA
- Sarasota-Bradenton, FL
- Sebring, FL
- South Bend-Mishawaka, IN
- Terre Haute, IN
- Vallejo-Fairfield, CA
- Warsaw, IN
In addition to the announcement, the carrier also confirmed that Sprint subscribers with LTE-supporting handsets such as the Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE might see 4G LTE coverage in the said areas during the pre-launch phase. The carrier also confirmed that if this happens, Sprint customers can already take advantage of the benefits of its LTE network even before the network gets officially lit up.
Of course, this LTE network of the carrier is going to be useless if you don’t rock an LTE-capable device such as the HTC EVO 4G LTE which you can use to maximize the blazing fast mobile internet speeds brought to the table by Sprint’s LTE network. Of course, there are also other LTE-supporting handsets in the lineup of Sprint but the HTC EVO 4G LTE is one of the best in the said lineup.
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The HTC EVO 4G LTE already runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for its operating system and this draws power from the handset’s QualComm MSM8960 SnapDragon chipset. This SoC brings into play a dual-core Krait processor clocked at 1.5 GHz working in conjunction with the handset’s full gigabyte of RAM to ensure that the operation and performance of the HTC EVO 4G LTE is always smooth and stutter-free.
The handset packs 16GB of onboard storage but a microSD card slot in its chassis enables memory expansion on the device. In terms of storage, the HTC EVO 4G LTE sports a 4.7-inch Super IPS LCD2 panel with an HD resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels while its camera department is just as impressive with its rear 8MP shooter and front-facing 1.3MP snapper, both of which care capable of video capture at 1080p and 720 respectively.
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