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HTC EVO 4G that went on sale last Friday shifted a record number of units for Sprint, making it the best phone to be sold on a single day in Sprint’s history. EVO 4G is USA’s first 3G/4G phone and it broke the record of Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre. In fact, Sprint sold as much as three times on launch day as compared to Instinct’s and Pre’s sales in their first three days combined.

EVO 4G does pack some powerful features like a 4.3-inch display, 8MP rear camera with 720p video recording, 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, 1.3MP front facing camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM Radio, 3.5mm audio jack, microSD card slot and comes with an app to share its 4G connection over Wi-Fi with 8 different devices.

Considering the lackluster career that Palm's inaugural webOS duo ultimately endured on Sprint, it's wild to think back to those heady days when the Pre was the carrier's best launch day performer in history -- but alas, no longer. As you might've expected, the mighty EVO 4G has shown the Pre the door to take its own place in the record books, a mark we're not surprised to see considering the activation issues many customers saw on Friday as Sprint's systems buckled under the load. Sprint isn't quoting figures, but it proudly boasts of "temporary shortages of the device at some of the 22,000 sales locations across the United States" that are in the process of being replenished with daily deliveries. Now, the next hurdle is to see whether Sprint's shared WiMAX infrastructure can stand up to the load of its first wildly-successful 4G consumer product, eh? Follow the break for the carrier's press release.

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