Sprint to Unveil First WiMax Phone Next Week

We’ve heard plenty about Sprint and Verizon’s respective 4G networks, but we have yet to see a concrete example of a handset that will run on these networks. According to a new Reuters report, that will all change next week.

Sprint will be showing country’s first 4G handset at a press conference during CTIA. The event will take place on Tuesday, the 23rd.

The phone is said to be manufactured by HTC and named the Supersonic. The phone will operate both on Sprint’s CDMA network and its WiMax network being run by Clearwire. Neither Sprint or HTC commented for the story.

Last month, reports circulated that Sprint would launch a dual-mode HTC phone running Android by this summer.  This certainly sounds like it.

Sprint’s 4G network is currently available in 27 cities around the country. Sprint has detailed plans of extending that network to eight+ more cities by year-end. [via Reuters]