You would think maybe AT&T might have learned something through osmosis, through the months and months and millions and millions of dollars of highly successful advertisements Apple has run promoting the iPhone. They’ve pulled at our heartstrings. They’ve played off our emotions. And they’ve been very, very good at it.

OK, all you boys and girls on Sprint — the Nexus S 4G has finally arrived! You get the latest version of Android (that’d be Android 2.3.4, with the new Google Talk video chat), the promise of the latest updates, the “Pure Google” experience, all in a sleek, lightweight Samsung shell.

We know the HTC EVO 3D is coming soon to Sprint. We know it’s coming this summer. We just don’t know exactly when. And this little advertisement in ESPN The Magazine is doing its best to taunt us, and we’re not happy about it one bit. Zoom in all you want, we sure don’t see any clues as to when it’ll be released. But don’t forget that you can preorder one now at Best Buy, if you’ve really got an itch.

We know the HTC EVO 3D is coming soon to Sprint. We know it’s coming this summer. We just don’t know exactly when. And this little advertisement in ESPN The Magazine is doing its best to taunt us, and we’re not happy about it one bit. Zoom in all you want, we sure don’t see any clues as to when it’ll be released. But don’t forget that you can preorder one now at Best Buy, if you’ve really got an itch.

A familiar phone gets faster, thanks to Verizon’s LTE network

It isn’t very often that a smartphone has the the staying power to remain a best-seller for an entire year, and it’s even more rare to see that smartphone still have a major buzz factor when it hits another carrier some 12 months after it was initially announced. That phone, of course, is the HTC EVO 4G on Sprint. And it’s been revamped and revitalized as the HTC ThunderBolt — the first 4G LTE smartphone on Verizon.

(Yes, you’ll need instructions)

You really shouldn’t need an instruction manual to remove the microSD card from a phone. But things get a little tricky with the Samsung Infuse 4G.

Open up the battery cover and there’s no card to be found. OK, there’s a picture of one on the FCC label, but where the heck is the card? Samsung tucked it up under the SIM card. It’s sprint-loaded and pops out straight down toward the bottom of the phone.

If there ever was a phone you shouldn’t buy without doing your homework, the Kyocera Echo is it.  It brings something new and different, but that doesn’t always mean something new, different and good.  There’s a lot of general disdain out there for the poor Echo, and it’s understandable, because without trying it out it’s hard to visualize just how it will fit — or not fit — into your lifestyle.