{"id":341422,"date":"2010-02-19T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/5ab34cc792575e47be208a0367e02d13"},"modified":"2010-02-19T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:55:00","slug":"article-sprints-initial-wimax-phone-coming-in-first-half-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/341422","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Sprint&#8217;s initial WiMAX phone coming in first half of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/2\/94420-htc-supersonic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In existence since 2008, Sprint&#8217;s 4G WiMAX footprint has been slowly expanding.&nbsp; Fast forward to 2010, and we have an Overdrive Mobile Hotspot and a few aircards to take advantage of the new technology.&nbsp; But what about people who want to use the 4G capabilities on their mobile devices?&nbsp; Dan Hesse is on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppcgeeks.com\/2010\/02\/19\/sprint-to-offer-first-wimax-4g-device-by-summer-2010-could-it-be-the-supersonic\/\" >record<\/a> stating that the company plans to release &#8220;dozens of devices&#8221; with WiMAX capabilities this year, but subscribers want to know: when will they hit retail stores?<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <em>Forbes<\/em>, Sprint announced that their first WiMAX-enabled mobile device would launch in the first half of this year, several months earlier than expexted.&nbsp; Remember the A9292 handset spotted (the HTC Supersonic)?&nbsp; Rumor has it that it is the device in question, with <em>Forbes<\/em> going on to say that the unit launched in the coming months will most likely be an HTC-built Android phone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a recap, the HTC Supersonic is rumored to offer a 4.3-inch touchscreen (think HD2 here), Android 2.1, and HTC&#8217;s Sense UI.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/19\/sprint-promises-its-first-wimax-handset-by-this-summer-could-be\/\" >Engadget<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/velocity\/2010\/02\/18\/sprint-says-first-4g-handset-will-launch-by-summer\/?boxes=techchanneltopstories\" >Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FyEmcT_CmDVPiYuuC_IK41RpvKA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FyEmcT_CmDVPiYuuC_IK41RpvKA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FyEmcT_CmDVPiYuuC_IK41RpvKA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FyEmcT_CmDVPiYuuC_IK41RpvKA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/-YYZpfSTD9s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In existence since 2008, Sprint&#8217;s 4G WiMAX footprint has been slowly expanding.&nbsp; Fast forward to 2010, and we have an Overdrive Mobile Hotspot and a few aircards to take advantage of the new technology.&nbsp; But what about people who want to use the 4G capabilities on their mobile devices?&nbsp; Dan Hesse is on record stating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}