Does the EVO support Wireless N?

[Night Train]

Anxious soon-to-be-Evo owners want to know.

Out of the box, will my new Evo connect to my wireless N network?

 

[dre3k2]

No, not out of the box. When it gets Froyo, most likely it will. I think the tear down showed that it has a wireless N chip in it.

 

[TheMobileWorx]

Hardware, yes it definitely has a wireless N chip.
Software, not yet.

That is fine by me though, since the N spec uses about 3 times the juice.

 

[eyecon82]

oh awesome, I thought I just read it came with b and g

 

[storino03]

It's not officially known if the next android update will unlock Wireless N.

 

[Yourdogsdead]

if the next update doesn't, then the rooting community will.

 

[Auzo]

Hardware, yes it definitely has a wireless N chip.
Software, not yet.

That is fine by me though, since the N spec uses about 3 times the juice.

Where did you get that N uses three times the juice as G? I don't believe that is necessarily correct. The power usage of the user device would likely be the same assuming that you are only using a single spacial data stream, which is a good assumption because you would need more than one wifi antenna to utilize more streams. I don't think I saw more than one antenna for the wifi in the tear down.

 

[ddpacino]

if the next update doesn't, then the rooting community will.

YUP! Whoo-hooooo! GO ANDROID! Awesomeness? DROID DOES!! (PLZ dont sue me, Verizon! =\)