Sprint is expected to bring the heat next week at CTIA, with a handful of new smartphones. One of the rumored handsets is the HTC EVO 3D, and a new entry to the GLBenchmark site hints that phone will be called the “HTC Shooter”.
The entry confirms a few things about the handset, but it doesn’t necessarily confirm that this will indeed be the next EVO handset for Sprint. Still, all signs are pointing in that direction. The handset will be running Android 2.3.2, has a model number of PG86100, and sports a qHD display, which is close to the resolution as the iPhone 4’s Retina display. We can expect the Shooter to sport a larger display, which will lessen the pixels density (PPI), so while it the phone will sport a super crisp, it likely won’t match the iPhone’s “Retina” display pixel density. Then again, if this handset turns out to be the EVO 3D, you’ll probably be too preoccupied by the addition of the third dimension to care about pixel density.
With a little more digging you can find the GL_Vendor, Qualcomm, and GL_Renderer, the Adreno 220. This tells us that the handset is likely to ship with a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC. And since this is rumored to be a part of the EVO line, we can guarantee some WiMaX on board.
While one can’t confirm that this will be the EVO 3D based on the given information, either Sprint has another HTC handset on the way, or the next EVO has been outed in the most subtle of ways. 3D may not attract everyone, but a 3D Sense UI on a phone doesn’t sound like a bad thing at all.
CTIA is next week, so there’s not much more time before we find out what Sprint is about to bring to the world, and if it indeed does bring us the EVO 3D, Nexus S 4G, and HTC View tablet (Flyer), the carrier could be on their way to stealing some customers from rivaling carriers.
I have every intention of staying on team Magenta, but if T-Mobile doesn’t deliver the Optimus 2x goods sometime soon, I may have to defect to Sprint.
Even if it’s still a bit gimmicky right now, would you consider an EVO 3D?
[Via: PocketNow, GLBenchmark]