Hey Sprint, you listening? Granted, GSM doesn’t do Sprint a whole lot of good in the States, but swapping a CDMA radio into HTC’s first WiMAX effort here would make for a downright mighty response to the Touch HD. The previously-seen T8920 has turned out to be the MAX 4G, an 800 x 480 monster with 8GB of Flash on board, two cameras, an FM radio, GPS, WiFi, triband EDGE, and — most importantly — WiMAX support, making it the first GSM / WiMAX handset anywhere in the world.

It’ll be launching on Scartel’s Yota network in Russia, and if you have friends cool enough to have a MAX 4G of their own, calls between the two of y’all will automatically be routed over the WiMAX airwaves using VoIP. A launch date hasn’t been announced, but unless you’re in Russia, there’s probably not much point in even bothering to lust after this one. If you insist, though, you can check out a couple additional shots of the phone over at Engadget Mobile.

• General

2G Network     GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced     2008, November
Status     Coming soon. Exp. release 2008, November

• Size    

Dimensions     113.5 x 63.1 x 13.9 mm
Weight     151 g

• Display  

Type     TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
Size     480 x 800 pixels, 3.8 inches
- TouchFLO 3D finger swipe navigation
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Touch-sensitive navigation controls
- Handwriting recognition

• Ringtones  

Type     Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3, WAV, WMA
Customization     Download
Vibration     Yes

• Memory

Phonebook     Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records     Practically unlimited
Card slot     microSD (TransFlash)
- 288 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM
- 8 GB user available memory
- Qualcomm ESM7206A 528 Mhz processor

• Data

GPRS     Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD     Yes
EDGE     Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G     No
WLAN     Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, WiMAX 802.16 e
Bluetooth     Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port     No
USB     Yes, miniUSB

• Features

OS     Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Messaging     SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser     WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
Games     Yes
Colors     Black
Camera     5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, video, geo-tagging, secondary VGA videocall camera
- Yota Mobile WiMAX 2,5-2.7 GHz
- Yota TV
- Built-in GPS receiver
- A-GPS function
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- MP3/MPEG-4 player
- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Voice memo
- Built-in handsfree

• Battery

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Stand-by     Up to 350 h
Talk time     Up to 7 h

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