In case you haven’t heard, new shipments of the HTC One X and EVO 4G LTE has been held at US customs as a result of issues of Apple’s patents last night. HTC and US customs have been working with the International Trade Commission to get the matter resolved and secure the proper approval. This whole mess is a result of Apple’s lawsuits against HTC, Samsung, & Motorola posing Android as intellectual theft of the iPhone. Since this mess may not make Sprint official launch date of Friday, May 18th, the carrier decided to officially delay the launch until the matter is resolved. Those who pre-ordered the newest EVO will still get first dibs though. Sprint had this to say in their community forums:
- HTC EVO 4G LTE availability
The U.S. availability of the HTC EVO 4G LTE has been delayed. HTC is working to resolve this issue and appreciates your patience as they work to get products into Sprint channels. We can’t provide specific timing for product availability at this time and we appreciate your patience as HTC works to get products on store shelves as soon as possible.- Pre-order status/availability
Delivery of products for pre-order are on hold and Sprint will provide a ship date as soon as possible. Sprint will maintain the promise for the preorder customers that they will be among the first to receive their HTC EVO 4G LTE units.While we’d rather you didn’t cancel your pre-order, there are instructions provided in the backorder email on how to do so. I’ve pasted them here for your reference:
If you would like to select an alternate product or cancel your backordered item, please call 866-789-8292 between 8:00 a.m. EST to 11:00 p.m. EST Monday to Friday or 9:00 a.m. EST to 9:00 p.m. EST on Saturdays and Sundays.Please note that cancellation requests may not always process successfully due to the speed of warehouse processing.If you cancelled your backordered item but still received a shipment, please refuse the shipment or call us to process a return within 14 days of receipt.
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