Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G is Official

Today, Sprint has officially announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Epic 4G smartphone.

Samsung Epic 4 is an Android™ 2.1 based handset, powered with 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird processor; featuring a slide-out, full QWERTY keyboard and 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen display. This 1500 mAh Li-ion powered smartphone also comes with 5MP autofocus camera, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, micro USB port and microSD slot supporting up to 32GB card.

Samsung Epic 4G is Sprint’s New Galaxy S Smartphone

The Samsung Epic 4G, which soon will be added into Sprint's handsetes line-up, is the second 4G capable handset from Sprint. This smartphone has already appeared in Sprint's handsets fact sheet today.

The Epic 4G is Samsung Mobile's first 4G Android-powered device. This Galaxy S smartphone is built based on Android 2.1 platform.

The handset sports a 4-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen display with pinch-to-zoom functionality; completing its user interface that supports a series of advanced touch screen gestures including multi-touch pinch, long tap and zoom and vertical and horizontal swiping. Plus, there is a side slide full QWERTY keyboard just in case that Epic 4G's virtual keyboard and Swype technology aren't enough yet.