Rest assured, if steam actually billows out of this thing when you open it, you'll want to promptly return it to the store. Our own Vlad Savov described it as resembling a microwaveable meal, and we think that pretty much sums it up: it's like an egg carton material surrounded by a bit of decorative cardboard that can be slipped off, and from a distance, it looks like you might peel the top off and expect steam to billow out. We've seen the boxes get a whole lot smaller, but the EVO's isn't just small - it's also. Handset packaging has evolved significantly in the past two to three years - a nod to the fact that consumers do care, in fact, about the environment (go figure) and take notice when manufacturers package a 4-ounce phone in a box big enough to swallow a laptop whole. So does this moderately intimidating black slab of pure engineering and marketing - this high-profile bet on Sprint's future - deliver the goods? Read on. Of course, the list of potential deal-breakers for a phone is as long as the EVO 4G's display is wide to put it another way, there are countless ways HTC, Sprint, or even Google could've screwed this thing up.
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Put simply, its magnificent list of specs reads as though it was scribbled on a napkin after a merry band of gadget nerds got tipsy at the watering hole and started riffing about their idea of the ultimate mobile device: a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4.3-inch WVGA display, 8 megapixel camera with 720p video recording, HDMI-out, and WiMAX compatibility.
Needless to say, Sprint, HTC, and quite frankly, many of us have come to expect the EVO 4G to join that short list for some obvious reasons. For the moment, anyway, a whopping fraction of the world's most important phones are running Google's little experiment.
As a mobile platform, the EVO 4G's Android foundation is still an infant - well, okay, perhaps it's a tweener - but in its two-odd years in the public spotlight, the list of truly revolutionary devices to use it has been a significant one: the G1 for being the first to market the Nexus One for ushering in a new ( and subsequently killed) retail model perhaps the CLIQ for introducing Motorola to the platform or the Droid for bringing the company some desperately needed, long overdue success.
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