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what's up everyone John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo here at the full review of the HTC EVO 4G LTE for Sprint let's go ahead and see if this is a legitimate successor to Sprint's crown jewel let's go and get started alright so before I jump into specs and talk about all the stuff this phone can do let's talk about the most important thing when it comes to a device like this call quality it's gonna depend on where you are what part of the country you're in and all that kind of business but where we are in Southern California and where this phone was tested also in Louisiana call quattro is absolutely outstanding during her xx called tests we had no drop call and was absolutely crystal-clear and we're excited to take a look at Sprint's HD voice coming sometime towards the end of 2012 so worry not those who are concerned about call quality it also found the antenna to be pretty strong compared to other sprint device though and run through the specs that I promised this guy's packed to the gills with the latest super phone goodness so first availability it was supposed to be May 18th but then some Apple injunctions with HTC have pushed that date back so available some time it'll be $199 the two-year contract or 549 if you just want to go out and purchase it it is running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with HTC Sense 4.0 on top of it I'm going to mention standpoint we are looking at five point three inches by two point seven inches by a nice and thin 0.35 inches and it's going to weigh up 4.7 ounces the screen that's about all the risks of this phone is just scream that's a 4.7 inch always measured diagonally HD Super LCD screen with Gorilla Glass in the screen here is absolutely beautiful as you come to expect from modern HTC devices if you've seen or had a chance to play with any devices in HTC's One series I've got AT&T s and One X here the screen looks almost identical absolutely gorgeous no sort of blue hue that we've seen on some em OLED devices the screen is probably one of the best in the business it's being powered by pretty beefy non-removable 2000 milliamp hour battery that sprint claims gonna be good for about 7.5 hours of talktime and that's a little bigger battery than what we've seen anyone excellent as well powering this behemoth is a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Snapdragon s4 which is a very very capable processor and it's got a gig of ram here augmenting it it's got 16 gigs of internal storage and HTC has given us microSD expansion so you can add another 32 gigs to this guy from a camera standpoint 8 megapixel shooter right there on the back that can shoot 1080p video and a 1.3 megapixel shooter that can shoot 720p video this guy has compatibility for Sprint's LTE network but we don't have LTE yet so at some point I'll have support for actually able to use Sprint's LTE network and one of the other cool things bad it will talk about is the kickstand back from the original Evo alright so we've run through all the specs let's go ahead and talk about the phone let's start with a design and that just mentioned the kickstand which surprisingly I found very useful brought back from the original Evo it is here and all of its kickstand glory made of aluminum it is going to make sure your phone can stand up unlike the original Evo which could only use the kickstand in one direction which meant you couldn't use it while you were charging this guy came using multiple ways so use it like that go ahead and turn it the other way and as HTC is very keen to tell me you can actually use it like this as well and it works very well ok that looks like in all those directions the kickstand always seemed a bit gimmicky but the more I use the phone that works out myself actually using the kickstand so give it a shot something that's very handy so very different looking than the HTC One X and I'd presume that it needed to be very different looking than the HTC One X so it wouldn't be any deal with AT&T exclusivity and certainly keeping a line with the red hues of the Evo so some differences you know you can see them right there we've got sort of soft touch feel on the bottom that red ribbon where the kickstand is and you've got a fingerprint sort of magnet e plastic back right here I got that red ring around the camera the design though felt very nice to me actually I wasn't the biggest fan of this plastic top but it definitely grimy the phone feels really the hands actually you can feel where that kick stands out having to turn it around so you can pop it out without having to take the hassle to twist your phone around something kind of nice right there another nice design kid HTC has added a physical camera button which is really nice especially you got a camera like this which can take pictures very fast with that you know supposedly zero shutter lag if you guys want more information on the camera or more detailed review definitely get the link down below we've got a full written review of the HTC One X you could see image and some samples of what this camera can do but suffice it to say concede take pictures of Mario very very quick I came away very impressed with the camera which is a carryover from the HTC One X line alright so let's talk about software is running Sense 4.0 lover hate it this phone is very sensed out to the gills one of the big highlights here or lowlights opinion he asked is multitasking there's been a lot of controversy about how Sprint is handling multitasking whether or not they're killing apps prematurely but how they skinned the multitasking view from Ice Cream Sandwich I've created its own bit of stir you can only see one app at a time a you can close it by just wiping off the screen but I much prefer to full list going down or I couldn't see multiple applications now I can see what others are I can close it from the side I would like to see more than one in the center at the time sort of keeping true with that full Sense UI look and feel you've got the widgets which are accepted accessible by a long press you can see what all those widgets are here and they're vetted quite a bit go ahead and view different widgets that are available when you find one that you like you can drag it right to the home screen of your choice by long-pressing and bringing it right to that screen and that's where it's going to show up seeing I've got no music available this phone also has support for Beats Audio so you can get a little better audio fidelity depending on what headphones you use and you no longer have to use Beats headphones in order to get that little better sound and I'm no sound guy but nothing there was a difference with the Beats Audio turned on so other difference is here you've got through the HTC looking application tray and if you look at settings as well you can know some other differences here HTC has something called a personalized which we've seen with previous versions of sense you've got different scenes and skins which let you customize the look to your phone not really sure the different tuned scenes and skins are but if you want to go through and sort of customize it for work or for friends or whatever you want to do those are gonna be options to do it it extends all the way down to the pulldown menus as far as what other things you're looking at so you can see what Ralph is up to HTC media link if you've got a media link connected it is always going to be their media link is away this sort of airplay content from HTC device to your television you want to access that you take three fingers and ya push it right up and it's gonna try and connect to media link now we're back in the home side home screen it works well if you have a media link device but that you cannot get rid of that median connection so it's always going to be there taking up space in your pulldown menu this phone not surprisingly is very very fast a powerful processor here the Snapdragon s4 it really handles everything with aplomb whether it's those animations or gaming we played a lot of Temple Run on this guy I games look absolutely beautiful on here as you'd expect for a modern super phone what's holding this phone back though is Sprint's Network there EVDO 3G network is absolutely abysmal and by AB is let me show you what some adults wear it's obviously going to vary depending on where you are but on some tests we got point oh one megabits down a blistering fast point Oh for was our fastest 0.02 and 0.02 and upload speeds were just as bad so depending where you are obviously but here we are in Southern California we'd expect much faster speeds this is very much the tale of a phone in search of a network once we get LTE presumably it'll be able to blazingly fast get through everything but while you're stuck dealing with Sprint's very very slow 3G network it's very much a phone in search of a home so if you are on Sprint and you're looking for a phone to to purchase and you want to stay on the carrier this is definitely the best one available if you're looking to make a switch to sprint for this device you're gonna want to look at AT&T HTC One X Verizon is incredible 4G or the 1s for t-mobile to get the faster networks we don't know you know what cities are gonna be next on the list after the initial rollout city is for Sprint's for LTE we don't know how to network it's gonna perform under Network pressure so it's a tough phone to recommend it's definitely well expect it's well constructed and everything about it just works well it's got decent battery life on our tests we got just below that 7.5 hour talk time at about 7 hours so everything about this phone works very well except for the network that it's on that's a decision you have to make for yourself whether or not Sprint is where you want to be if it is where you want to be you're not going to find anything better than this if you're looking to get the best phone available on the best network you may want to look elsewhere again for a for for more detailed explanation of the phone everything it can do which there check out the full review down below on TechnoBuffalo comm I'm John rector and I'll see you in the next video buh-bye you