Confirmed EVDO Rev-A Capable Phones/PDAs

Maureen · Last edited by Maureen on Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:20 pm; edited 4 times in total

This thread will be the home of the official discussion of confirmed Rev-A capable phones/PDAs from Sprint and Verizon.

The following are the currently available phones/PDAs that are officially EVDO Rev-A capable (UPDATED 7/27/09).
Asterisks indicate that the device is tether-capable.

VERIZON:
LG Dare*
LG Versa*
Blackberry Storm*
Blackberry Tour*
Samsung Omnia*
Samsung Saga*
HTC Touch Pro*
LG EnV Touch*
Motorola Adventure V750*
Nokia Inrigue*
VX6900* - with Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade
(older phone, not available everywhere)

SPRINT:
Blackberry Tour*
Palm Pre*
HTC Touch Diamond*
HTC Touch Pro*
HTC Snap*

Have you used one of these phones? What was your experience like? Did you tether with it? Use it with a router? Share your experience!

Maureen · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:14 pm Post subject:

There are MANY EVDO-capable phones available, and some folks assume that since Sprint and Verizon have upgraded their towers to support Rev-A, that anything labeled "EVDO" will be getting those Rev-A speeds. That is not the case. Devices must have chipsets specifically manufactured/configured to support Rev-A in order to take advantage of those speeds - so even though your Blackberry Curve 8330 is EVDO-capable and you are in an area covered by Rev-A, your Curve is not going to give you Rev-A speeds.

dhreis · EVDO Newbie Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 2

Thanks Maureen for the helpful info.

I noticed that most Sprint phones that are Rev A capable listed in the forum for tethering are smartphones. But there are other, non-smartphones that can do this. Sprint has emailed me the list (below) of phones capable of tethering. Some are Rev A non- smartphones, such as the Sanyo Pro-700. I hope this is helpful.

What I am looking for, is to tether a Rev A non-smartphone to the Cradlepoint PHS300. Does anyone have experience in this? Conceptually, is this possible?

BTW, I think the info re: cost and limits the Sprint person who sent the email below IS INCORRECT. But the tether - list IS CORRECT.

thanks, Dan
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Dear Daniel,

Thank you for contacting Sprint regarding the phone as a modem.

I understand that you wish to know about the handsets which have phone
as a modem. These are the handsets which have phone as modem features:

- BlackBerry 7130e
- BlackBerry 7250
- BlackBerry 8130
- BlackBerry 8330
- BlackBerry 8703e
- BlackBerry 8830
- HTC MP6950SP (Touch Diamond)
- HTC Mogul
- HTC Touch
- HTC Touch Pro
- LG FUSIX
- LG LOTUS
- LG LX-150
- LG LX-160
- LG LX-350
- LG LX-400
- LG MUZIQ
- LG RUMOR
- Motorola C290
- Motorola MOTO Q
- Motorola MOTOKRZR K1m
- Motorola MOTORAZR V3m
- Motorola MOTORAZR2 V9m
- Motorola MOTOSLVR L7c
- Motorola MotoRAZR VE20
- Motorola Q9c
- Motorola Red MOTORAZR V3m
- Motorola Renegade V950
- Palm Centro 690p
- Palm Pre
- Palm Treo 700p
- Palm Treo 700wx
- Palm Treo 755p
- Palm Treo 800w
- Palm Treo PTR850HK
- Samsung A580
- Samsung A640
- Samsung A900M
- Samsung ACE (i325)
- Samsung Beyonce B-Phone
- Samsung IP-830w
- Samsung M300
- Samsung M500
- Samsung M510
- Samsung M520
- Samsung M610
- Samsung M620 (Upstage)
- Samsung MM-A900
- Samsung MM-A920
- Samsung MM-A940
- Samsung MM-A960
- Samsung Z400
- Sanyo Katana
-Sanyo Katana DLX
- Sanyo Katana Eclipse
- Sanyo Katana Eclipse X
- Sanyo Katana LX
- Sanyo M1
- Sanyo MM-7500
- Sanyo MM-9000
- Sanyo PRO-200
- Sanyo PRO-700
- Sanyo S1
- Sanyo SCP-2400
- Sanyo SCP-3100
- Sanyo SCP-3200
- Sanyo SCP-7000
- Sanyo SCP-8400
- Sprint PCS PPC-6700

Regarding the cost, if you wish to add this option on your account, you
will have to pay $15.00 per month as a monthly service charge. There is
no limit on this pack. You have unlimited data on this pack.

The night time minutes are not same with the data minutes. You can
access unlimited data on your account, you will not have to pay anything
for this.

Regarding the speed, These are the unit for downloading:

Download Speed 400-700 Kbps**
Upload Speed 50-70 Kbps

We appreciate your association with us. Have a great day.

o2bad455 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Posts: 9

I'd also like to find a Rev.A non-smartphone, but in my case for Verizon. I think Verizon calls EV-DO non-smartphones "V-Cast" phones. I did some searching here and on Verizon's site (using Google), but came up empty. Anyone know of one? If not, I might have to settle for a Rev.0 non-smartphone.

Alex

o2bad455 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Posts: 9