Leak re-confirms HTC Supersonic for Sprint at CTIA
updated 12:30 pm EDT, Wed March 17, 2010
HTC Supersonic will headline Sprint keynote
The widely leaked HTC Supersonic should get its formal introduction at next week's CTIA phone expo, a scoop re-confirms today [subscription required]. Although already pegged for March, sources for the WSJ said the Android smartphone with WiMAX should not only debut at the show but be the centerpiece of Sprint chief Dan Hesse's keynote presentation on March 23rd. The company had already signaled that it would have a WiMAX phone by summer.
The Supersonic is poised to be the closest any carrier gets to an Android version of the HD2 and would have the same 4.3-inch screen size and 1GHz Snapdragon processor, just with an AMOLED display panel and Android 2.1 as the main interface. A 5-megapixel camera, GPS and Wi-Fi should equally be present. It's presumed the phone will still support Sprint's 3G and CDMA networks for data and calls, but the 4G-level WiMAX will give it multi-megabit download speeds in the areas where Sprint 4G is active.
