Re: Did they say anything about EVDO RevB in today's announcement
I agree with you that rev b isn't coming to THIS phone but according to their slide there all of the chips in future phones will have rev b support. I don't know what that means though. Are they planning on moving toward rev b or are all qualcomm chips supporting it regardless?
Many Qualcomm chips in existing phones on Sprint support Rev. B, but it doesn't really mean anything. It just means the manufacturer chose that particular chip in the design, and it happened to support it. The E4GT coming with a chip that does not support it was fairly strong evidence that Rev. B wasn't coming.
Once 4G comes into its own, 3G will become a dinosaur and protocol revisions won't matter anyways.
Bottom line ...
1) Our phone should see 3G improvements on Sprint over the next year and beyond, even without Rev. B.
2) WiMax is dead. If you don't already have it in your area you won't get it.
3) LTE is on the way and by the time it's built out appropriately you'll be looking at buying a new phone that supports LTE anyways.
In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy a GREAT device that I'm lucky enough to get good voice and data signals and reasonable data speeds.