The HTC EVO 4G was an iconic Android smartphone: it was one of the first with 4G, it had a huge 4.3" display and Android running on a fast 1GHz CPU. It sold out quickly, and was hard to find in stores for months. It was, and remains, best of breed until dual core Tegra 2 smartphones start shipping by mid-2011. Several months after the EVO 4G's supremely successful launch, the HTC Shift EVO 4G is here, the anticipated keyboarded companion to the first EVO. And now that it is here, we're a little confused why Sprint would sully the EVO name with a less than flagship device. The Shift 4G is a decent upper-middle range Android phone with an 800MHz second generation Qualcomm CPU, Android OS 2.2 Froyo with HTC Sense software and a 5 megapixel camera. It makes a good alternative to Sprint's ever wide range of entry to midrange Android QWERTY phones, but unlike the EVO 4G, it's not quite a superphone.