White EVO 4G to grace Sprint? Yes!

Sprint users no longer have to purchase the EVO 4G dressed up in white from Best Buy any longer. Sprint is beginning to receive these White EVO 4G handsets in corporate stores. So what are you waiting for? Go get your EVO 4G action on!

Google’s Android numbers surge in the U.S.

According to ComScore, Google’s Android OS took a five percent jump from April 2010 through July 2010. All other OS’ virtually took a decline in that same time-frame with the exception of Palm’s webOS. Of that, 53.4 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in July, up 11 percent from the corresponding April period. RIM was the leading mobile smartphone platform in the U.S. with 39.3 percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers, followed by Apple with 23.8 percent share. Google saw significant growth during the period, rising 5.0 percentage points to capture 17.0 percent of smartphone subscribers. Microsoft accounted for 11.8 percent of Smartphone subscribers, while Palm rounded out the top five with 4.9 percent. Despite losing share to Google Android, most smartphone platforms continue to gain subscribers as the smartphone market overall continues to grow.

Review: Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G in daily use

Sprint’s EVO 4G is the company’s first flagship Android 4G device. This is not the phone for those of you that are looking for a smaller device; you may just want to move along now. But for those of you ready to fork over your hard earned money for an Android handset, the EVO4G comes packed with pretty much everything imaginable: 1Ghz Qualcomm 8650 SnapDragon processor, 4.3″ LCD 480×800, 512MB RAM, 8 MP main camera capturing 720p video with another 1.3 MP front facing camera, 4G and 4G bands, FM Radio, TV out HDMI and a 1500mAh battery.  Arguably, we feel that this is still one of best phones on the market today; hence why Sprint can’t seem to keep them in stock. We tested this phone on a daily basis and I personally used it as my main line for an extensive period of time. Hit the break to read the entire review.

Android 2.2 begins hitting EVO’s, early adopters minds are at ease

It was true! I know this is so hard to believe because Sense UI has a reputation of late updates, but would you look at that. The Android 2.2 update is beginning to land on devices. According to Engadget, they recently received a handful of tips stating that Android 2.2 has began hitting some of their readers handsets. We haven’t gotten the official OTA on ours yet, but we will definitely shoot up some video once we do. If you have yours already, let us know what you think!

[Via Engadget]

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Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G Android Froyo 2.2 now ready for your downloads

Got a Sprint HTC EVO 4G? Been waiting for Android 2.2? You don’t need to wait any further. If you don’t mind performing a self-install, you can head on over to the update link, download the latest version HTC’s and drop this puppy on your phone.

Instructions a relatively simple (I’m doing this as I post): drop the .zip file to the root directory on your SD card.

1. Download the Android 2.2 firmware update DOWNLOAD LINK
2. Rename the file “update.zip” (make sure you don’t accidentally name it update.zip.ZIP).
3. Move the zip file to the root directory of your EVO’s SD card.
4. Shut down your phone and restart it in recovery mode by holding volume “DOWN BUTTON” while powering up the device.
5. Select Recovery Mode.
6. Hold the volume Up button and Power
7. Select “apply update.zip”

[Update] Looks like Android police and HTC for that matter are getting a ton of hits. Just keep trying and they should be back up in no time. I also posted a link for the file I just uploaded. This was direct from the HTC url I grabbed before the servers crashed.

[Update 2] Here is another mirror for the file.

[via Engadget thru Android Police]

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HTC EVO 4G to get Android 2.2 on August 3rd

The first skinned device to receive Android 2.2 looks to be the HTC EVO. After some rumors went back and forth around the web today, Sprint and HTC decided to put and end to all the ruckus and put out an official press release. Android 2.2 is coming to the EVO 4G on August 3rd and will be supposed to be up for customer initiation a couple days before. So what is Froyo you ask? Well check out the list of new features after the break…

Who is The King of the Android Phones Buzz?

In what is an unscientific but pretty accurate data-collection poll, Mashable out together some resources to see which of the latest batch of Android phones is most popular on the interwebs. So while pulling data on the most recent Android devices including the Droid X, the HTC Evo, and the HTC Incredible, the report shows statistics that may be an eye opener.

HTC expects to update most of it phones to Android 2.2 by the start of Q3

Now that Android 2.2 has officially arrived on Google’s baby (the Nexus One), we can expect to start hearing news about the release on other phones. Motorola said the Droid will get the update near the end of July and the Droid X will receive it shortly after that. Today Recombu reports that HTC is working hard to get updates out to all of its phones as well.  According to them, HTC will have Android 2.2 for several of their models including Wildfire, Legend, and the Desire by the beginning of quarter 3.  I think it’s safe to bet that this would also include the HTC Aria, EVO, Incredible, and possibly the MyTouch Slide. If HTC could update all its devices by quarter 3, I think the world will be a better place.

[Via Recombu]

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HTC EVO 4G loses 30fps video limit; gets 802.11n WiFi

Oh EVO. How you make me so happy. Not only are you big and beautiful but you keep the devs busy. HTC shipped the EVO 4G with a cap on the graphic output. Now devs decided to take things into their own hands and uncap that little snafu. The guys at xda-developers decided to get their coding mitts on and pump out the needed lines to remove this limit.

Also, HTC didn’t allow 802.11n WiFi when the EVO 4G was shipped. Again, xda-developers decided to give this puppy the needed code to enable EVO to use the band. So if you’re interested in doing both to your EVO, hit the break for videos and links on how to enable both features on your EVO 4G.

HTC EVO in White to get exclusive through Best Buy

Best Buy is going to be the exclusive retailer of the HTC EVO 4G in a brilliant color White. According to an anonymous tipster over at Engadget, Best Buy will get the new color on July 11th, with Sprint retail to get them around August 8th. Pre-orders started today, June 19th. So if the black EVO wasn’t your cup of tea, now is the time to make the jump get your White EVO 4G on!

[via Engadget]

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