HTC EVO 4G LTE for Sprint review - awesome, but where's the LTE?

Score

4.2 stars
"Great"

(How we score)

Fantastic screen, speedy performance, solid build quality

Slow data until LTE arrives, camera performance is weak indoors, may be too large for some hands

Summary

The HTC EVO 4G LTE is the successor to the very popular EVO 4G and slightly-less popular EVO 3D for Sprint. Based on the excellent HTC One X, the EVO 4G LTE pairs impressive performance with an industrial design that could only be for a phone with the EVO nameplate.

Despite its great performance and solid hardware, the EVO 4G LTE gets a bit ahead of itself, or at least ahead of what Sprint can provide for it. Though it has support for next-generation features like LTE data and HD Voice, Sprint's network does not yet offer either, and that really holds back the EVO 4G LTE from being all that it can be.

Read on to find out if the HTC EVO 4G LTE is able to overcome the handicap of Sprint's 3G network, or if it is just too much for the big guy to bear.