HTC MAX 4G officially announced, world's first GSM / WiMAX phone

[pacmantom]

Hey Sprint, you listening? Granted, GSM doesn't do Sprint a whole lot of good in the States, but swapping a CDMA radio into HTC's first WiMAX effort here would make for a downright mighty response to the Touch HD. The previously-seen T8920 has turned out to be the MAX 4G, an 800 x 480 monster with 8GB of Flash on board, two cameras, an FM radio, GPS, WiFi, triband EDGE, and -- most importantly -- WiMAX support, making it the first GSM / WiMAX handset anywhere in the world. It'll be launching on Scartel's Yota network in Russia, and if you have friends cool enough to have a MAX 4G of their own, calls between the two of y'all will automatically be routed over the WiMAX airwaves using VoIP. A launch date hasn't been announced, but unless you're in Russia, there's probably not much point in even bothering to lust after this one. If you insist, though, you can check out a couple additional shots of the phone over at Engadget Mobile.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/12/h...m-wimax-phone/

[GoodThings2Life]

Considering Sprint's prior commitment to WiMAX here in the states, they'd be complete fools to NOT take a serious look at this phone.

Of course, we all know that in Mother Russia-- WiMAX phones you!