New EVO 4G OTA Update Getting Pushed Out That Won’t Break Your Phone [After Bricking Countless Devices, HTC/Sprint Have Pushed Out a New EVO 4G Update That Will Remedy The Problem]

Posted on TFTS by Jeff Baker on Wednesday, 30. June 2010 under: Mobile/Cell Phones

When Google first launched their Android mobile operating system back in 2008, many wondered if it would ever take off and/or be able to make a dent in the marketshare of more established operating systems such as Apple’s iOS (iPhone OS) or Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. Well, here we are nearly two years later and Android has gained a considerable amount of marketshare – enough to have Apple scrambling to update iOS, adding many highly sought after features in an attempt to secure their foothold.

With Android gaining such momentum, will Apple really be able to keep their massive marketshare for much longer? If manufacturers like HTC keep pushing out devices like the EVO 4G, potentially not. Ever since it was first made available for Sprint on June 4th of this year and introduced the mass market to 4G mobile broadband, users everywhere have been clamouring about what a great device it is.

However, with any highly hyped device that sells like hotcakes as the HTC EVO 4G has, there are sure to be problems of sorts. In the past, we told you about a screen seperation issue that was plaguing the EVO 4G and shortly after that, an OTA (over the air) update that was actually bricking some devices rendering them completely unusable. If you were lucky enough to read up on the issue before updating, you probably have had no worries whatsoever, but if you weren’t so lucky you’re probably shaking your fists in anger at both Sprint and HTC.

Well, thanks to the quick workings of engineers over at both HTC and Sprint, a new OTA update is getting pushed out today that will not brick your device, but also add a slew of new bug fixes. According to Sprint, the update will fix things like WiFi reception, exchange support all while further maximizing battery life.

Unfortunately it’s not the Android 2.2 Froyo update, but now that consumer’s devices are no longer bricked it seems more people will be sticking around to actually see said OS update.

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