On June 4th for $200 on a two-year contract, you can have the first ever 4G phone to launch in the U.S.

The HTC EVO 4G is definitely hardware and software bliss for most folks: it has a large, high-resolution touchscreen, Android 2.1, HTC Sense UI and WiMAX! Videos, Web browsing and data-intensive applications will all work like a charm over Sprint's 4G network with little latency and speeds up to five times faster than EV-DO Rev. A (3G).

But I don't want it, and here's why:

WiMAX isn't available in my city. At first, WiMAX only seemed available in little towns I've never heard of, like Lubbock, Texas (actually, I think one or all of the Dixie Chicks are from there, but don't ask me how I know that).

Of course, it's available in bigger cities now, too, like Las Vegas, Portland, Baltimore, Atlanta and Chicago. I live in New York City and frequently travel to San Francisco and my hometown, Los Angeles. WiMAX isn't available in those cities yet, but Sprint says they will be lit up this year.

Sorry, but Android handsets are being churned out like there's no tomorrow. There's a good chance that something better will become available once WiMAX finally hits the cities I find myself in the most. That's the problem with Android devices. What's worse is that the EVO is an HTC Sense UI handset -- historically that means I'd have to wait a little longer to get Android updates as and when they do come.

This is a matter of personal preference, but the phone is friggin' huge. I'm over six feet tall and I have not-so-small hands, but both the HTC HD2 and HTC EVO 4G feel a little too big. They're perfect for watching videos and maybe Web browsing, but for everything else they're cumbersome. I used to think the size was perfect until I carried the HD2 for two weeks as my main device. No thanks.

Ten dollars extra on top of the Simply Everything plans? It's still cheaper for what you get compared to AT&T and Verizon, but the fact that this is specific to the EVO is ridiculous. Sprint calls it a premium services charge -- you know, because it has 4G capabilities and Qik video chat for 3G or 4G users -- but I think it should be something subscribers are able to opt in or out of.

The $10 also gets you truly unlimited data with no caps, but the soft cap right now is at 5GB and you'd have to be a real power user to break that every month.

It's Android. Look, I love the openness of Android and the platform has come a long way since it first launched, but it still doesn't feel polished to me. I'm quite bored with Android, actually. The quality of applications is getting better, but there is still a lot that I'm missing as an iPhone user. How long did it take Android to get a decent Twitter app? As far as I'm concerned, they were all terrible until the official one by Twitter was released not long ago.

Believe me, I've been wanting to switch, but it I'm just not ready. And with Erick Tseng, Android Senior Product Manager, leaving Google for Facebook, I wonder what the future of the platform will look like.

The fourth generation iPhone is coming out next month. I don't care if you label me a "fanboy", but it has been a great device and platform so far. There's a reason Apple sales keep climbing each quarter.

And judging from leaks, the new handset looks nice. I could live with a comparatively smaller screen for the incredibly high resolution of the new iPhone. Like the EVO, it will also have a front-facing camera for video chat.

Almost all of the complaints I ever had about the iPhone OS seems to be handled quite well by OS 4. Best of all, there are now over 200,000 applications in the App Store to choose from. More doesn't always mean better, but it certainly means you have more chances to find something better. So far, on average, I find that iPhone applications are more feature-rich and visually appealing than Android, BlackBerry or webOS apps.

The HTC EVO 4G is going to be a fantastic phone, no doubt, but it's the first of its kind and it's hard to say how good the user experience will be. The demo at CTIA made it look awesome, but the moment I stepped outside the demo room my Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G was constantly switching between EV-DO and WiMAX.

For now, I'm going to wait until WiMAX is more widely available. If WiMAX comes to New York City before better handsets come out, maybe I'll consider the EVO 4G. Maybe.

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