HTC Supersonic To Be Sprint's First 4G Smartphone?

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Sprint users looking for a WiMAX touting smartphone are in for a treat as we just caught wind that the company has officially announced that their first 4G capable handset will be announced month earlier than expected, right this summer. Sprint Nextel released the first fourth-generation (4G) wireless network in the US in 2008, and now, after two years they can finally brag they’ll have a super-fast mobile capable to handle those speeds.

The phone which is likely to be a HTC-built Android device with touchscreen, maybe the new HTC Supersonic, will be picked up by “businesses and government agencies–not just consumers”, says Paget Alves, Sprint’s president of Business Markets. Also, we’re hearing that the phone is going to be “dual-mode”, meaning it will be able to switch to 3G whereas Sprint 4G is not available.

Speaking of network coverage, Sprint 4G is now available to 30 million people in 27 markets in the US, with Houston, TX, available in the next few weeks and cities like Boston, New York, San Francisco and Washington getting it by the end of the year, when total coverage would mean up to 120 million users.

For those who can’t remember it, early rumors about the HTC supersonic will run Android 2.1 on a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, should pack a 4.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen display and Sense UI.