Sprint’s first 4G smartphone, the EVO 4G, will go on sale on June 4th for $200 after a mail-in rebate (the full price is $450, but if you grab one from Best Buy, you’ll get the discount applied when you buy).

The Android-powered WiMAX phone, which runs on the speedy 1GHz Snapdragon processor, has a front facing 1.3 Megapixel camera for video-conferencing, an 8MP cam for shooting photos and videos and a huge 4.3-inch touch-screen also requires a special, mandatory data plan. Sign up and you’ll have to pay an extra $10 per month for the 4G access, but this gives you true unlimited data instead of the 5GB limit on regular 3G plans.

Another of the EVO’s best features, the ability to use it to share the WiMAX connection with up to eight other devices via Wi-Fi, will also cost extra. $30 per-month extra, in fact. It will be interesting to see what happens to this plan if and when the EVO is updated from Android 2.1 to 2.2, which has native tethering built-in to the OS

By: DocMemory
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