Amazon Wireless is my favorite mobile online retailer, as they always seem to offer the best deals. They’re at it again, this time discounting the yet to be released HTC EVO 4G LTE for Sprint. Amazon Wireless has opened pre-orders for the device for $50 less than Sprint and it seems to be open to existing customers as well as new customers.
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.
If you passed on Sprint’s Samsung Galaxy Nexus in favor of the EVO 4G LTE, your patience is about to be rewarded as Sprint has now opened up pre-orders for the latest and greatest HTC EVO 4G LTE. If you head over to Sprint now, you can put one of these bad boys on hold for yourself (or someone else) and then anxiously await the yet-to-be-announced launch date.
We’ve all heard stories of celebrities and their high-priced diamond encrusted phones, but have you heard the one about Best Buy selling a run-of-the-mill HTC EVO 4G LTE for $99,999.99? It’s an obvious mistake but if you head over to the Best Buy site now, that’s the current price of an off-contract HTC EVO 4G LTE device. Talk about sticker shock! I bet if it wasn’t a mistake, there would be some rich fool out there that would actually buy it just to say he did. Anyways, it gave us a good chuckle.
The sign-up page for the Samsung Galaxy S III has gone live, allowing users to register for up-to-date information (for before-the-date information follow an Android blog such as CoA) regarding the Samsung Galaxy S III U.S. launch. It’s interesting to see all major and regional carriers listed under the “carrier preference” drop-down menu and this indicates Samsung plans to bring the Galaxy S III to as many U.S. carriers as possible. Whether or not these carriers will feature the device, and at what dates, remains anyone’s guess — although Samsung did say it would hit the U.S. sometime in the summer.
