On Friday, Sprint released the HTC EVO 3D, the successor to the highly successful EVO 4G. The new device, which Sprint touts as “America’s first glasses-free 3D phone,” is $199.99 with a new two-year contract or eligible upgrade.
Also available is the HTC EVO View 4G, which Sprint calls the first 4G-tablet to hit the U.S. The EVO View is $399.99 with a two-year contract.
The EVO 3D takes everything that made the EVO 4G such a huge hit and upgrades it to 2011′s hottest technology. That means the device has a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, dual 5-megapixel cameras for capturing 3D images and videos, and a 4.3-inch qHD 3D display. It runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).
LG released its 3D smartphone, the Optimus 3D, in the UK in March. The jury is still out on 3D as a sales driver, but it’s great to see the glasses-free technology hit stateside-bound smartphones.
The EVO 4G was one of our favorite phones from 2010 so if the EVO 3D is half as good, it’ll be a great device.
As for the HTC View 4G, it’s a 7-inch touchscreen tablet that’s basically the WiMax version of the HTC Flyer. That means it has a single-core 1.5Ghz processor, runs Android 2.3 (but Honeycomb is promised in a future update) and has a 1024-by-600 resolution display.
For our money, we’d rather look at getting a dual-core tablet like the iPad 2 or the Eee Transformer and pair it with a MiFi unit, but it’s certainly nice to see 4G tablets.
What do you think of the EVO 3D and the View 4G? Let us know in the comments.
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