I have some good news for Sprint customers looking to pick up the HTC EVO 4G LTE: looks like you’ll be able to easily unlock the bootloader with the Android SDK and instructions from HTCdev.com — unlike AT&T’s HTC One X. Why would anyone care about being able to unlock the bootloader? Well, it’s essentially the keys to the kingdom, allowing for full backups, modding, custom ROMs and just about any other hacking you can think of.

Sprint today confirmed its plans to stop creating devices that support WiMax and continue to focus on rolling out their 4G LTE network. As you may remember, Sprint was one of the first carriers to offer 4G, with the help of WiMax. Sprint will still be offering WiMax services, but will continue building its 4G LTE network for a full rollout by midyear. It’s not clear how long Sprint will continue supporting WiMax once that happens. 

Verizon has had some pretty decent deals as of late and they continue to discount some great 4G LTE devices. They are now offering an online only deal where you can pick up an HTC Rezound or LG Spectrum for the low price of $99 on a new 2-year contract. That’s a great deal when you consider both devices are packing a dual-core 1.5GHz processor. There certainly hasn’t been a lack of deals on smartphones, especially with Amazon constantly outdoing the carriers. Now’s a good time to grab a high-end device for a sub $100 price, so if you’re interested in either of these 4G LTE phones, hit the break for a quick spec refresher and links to purchase them.

AT&T may be playing catch up when it comes to expanding their LTE network but they haven’t slowed down their roll out. Markets in both Florida and North Carolina were lit up today, bringing the blazing fast LTE speeds to any customer owning a 4G LTE device. Areas affected include:

The guys over at phoneArena.com got their hands on quite a few pics of an unannounced HTC device running Ice Cream Sandwich and HTC Sense 4.0. There’s no indication of a name for this device but the photos reveal quite a lot of other information. This mystery device appears to be a Verizon 4G LTE device as their logo can clearly be seen on the boot up screen. Other than that, specs of this device include: