HTC Supersonic Ready for Sprint’s WiMAX? [Sprint to Launch HTC Supersonic A9292 WiMAX-enabled Smartphone in 2010]

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One of the most interesting devices mentioned so far this year is the HTC A9292 which is apparently Sprint’s first WiMAX-ready smartphone. We have already mentioned the device but now we have more details about the A9292. Apparently called the Supersonic, the new handset is probably a phone you’ll want to play with.

The Supersonic is probably HTC’s first WiMAX phone too and I personally expect it to beat the HD2 in terms of specs and features. The phone hasn’t been properly announced and we don’t even have mock-up pictures of the device yet. But we do have an idea of what the Supersonic could bring us all.

The only problem with this phone, at least for now, is that it will only offer faster 4G speeds to Sprint customers. Since WiMAX hasn’t been really deployed anywhere yet, the Supersonic will only be a 3G phone in other markets. Furthermore the world seems to be choosing an LTE standard for its future 4G networks so I imagine HTC would also be ready to launch an LTE-enabled Supersonic when the time comes.

The Supersonic is rumored to be an Android 2.1 smartphone that will sport a 4.3-inch non-AMOLED display, a thin case, a fast Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm, WiMAX and 3G support and, hopefully, even more enticing features.

According to leaks the phone is not quite ready yet. The software is buggy at this point but HTC will probably sort everything out later this year. The phone will also happen to be the first Android handset ready to surf at 4G speeds so we’d probably not want to see the Supersonic have 4G problems at launch.

Will we see the Supersonic in action at MWC 2010? We’re almost a month away from Spain’s famous event so HTC might have plenty of time to reveal to the world its WiMAX-related intentions for 2010.