> are they betting everything on 4G becoming big in the next few years?
I'm not sure that's much of a bet as it is inevitable. Sprint already has a phone on the market, Verizon will have a large deployment later this year and AT&T plans to deploy next year. That's just the US; I think there's already a small deployment of LTE somewhere in Europe.
Right, I didn't say the Evo is LTE. You might get an argument from Sprint about WiMAX not being 4G (even if it won't be the standard) but the point I was making is that the move to 4G is already underway and deployments around the world inevitable.
I'm not sure that's much of a bet as it is inevitable. Sprint already has a phone on the market, Verizon will have a large deployment later this year and AT&T plans to deploy next year. That's just the US; I think there's already a small deployment of LTE somewhere in Europe.