Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

htc, the maker of high spec smartphones has just announced that their blazingly amazing EVO 4G LTE handset is available for pre-order.  But only if you live in the States and can afford what is bound to be a stiff price.

LTE or long-term evolution is the future standard  for smartphones and will improve quality and capability no end.

And for the UK?  No word yet but you can bet your life that the large networks will charge you dearly.  Maybe even the the first £100 pm tariff! And don’t get too excited ‘cos the UK infrastructure is so poor and ancient that you won’t be able to get a signal, not even in London.  As you can see from the map we don’t yet have it and we now lag well behind the rest of the Western World for coverage.  But fear not; it’s planned.  Like the HS2 rail link to Scotland, the Edinburgh trams and fibre optic to all internet users.

In case you took a pass on that Sprint-branded GNex or the LG Viper 4G in order to wait it out for HTC's EVO 4G LTE, well, now's the time to get your wallet ready and unleash the cash. As promised, The Now Network has the LTE-friendly EVO priced at $199.99 (50 bucks less on Wirefly) with a beloved two-year contract, while those ineligible for an upgrade will have to shell out around $550. That being said, chances are you won't get to surf those Long Term Evolution waves when you get device, but at least you'll be all set once the rollout finally commences. While Sprint's yet to give an official release date, Wirefly (somewhat reliable in the past) does say the ICS / Sense 4 slab will be shipping on May 18th. Hit either of the source links below to get your pre-order on.

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PSA: Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE up for pre-order today, May 18th release date hinted at Wirefly
Edgar Alvarez
Mon, 07 May 2012 16:23:00 GMT

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And you thought the technology of Minority Report was way in the future.  Well you were wrong.  It’s here now and looks incredible:

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AS you know I have been a great fan of IE9 which seemed to have the right balance of speed, functionality and looks.

But alas it always seems to turn to tears in the long run with MS IE.  Of late I have found, for absolutely no apparent reason, that there is a most vexing situation where IE9 won’t render videos correctly, throwing them off axis to the left and unable to be controlled and filling up the left hand side of the screen with rapidly flashing ads that appear when the mouse is scrolled.  After much deep thought and empirical analysis I discovered that there is a fundamental incompatibility between IE9 and the Flash Player v10.3 but only on my laptop.  The other computers in the house (three) are all fine.

Totally unable to rectify the problem with the usual system restores, uninstalls and reinstalls I have given IE9 away and gone to Firefox 4.0.1 which seems to have done the trick.  Chrome lacks the functionality I want although it is quick and Opera is utterly incomprehensible!

I had used the Beta version of FF 4 but that had all sorts of problems (as one would expect with a beta build – doh!).  The release version seems [so far] to work fine, is compatible with Adobe Flash 10.3 and solves all the problems.

You can download it here

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We all want an iPhone but looks like Vodafone customers will have to wait at least until after Christmas.  But will they be in the sales?