Trimode Smartphone with Android(?) Coming to Sprint in 2010

The exact details are "still being finalized," said Scott Lane, director of marketing and sales for Sprint's 4G unit, in an interview.

Lane referred to it as a "trimode handset," enabling it to function in three wireless modes. Including WiMax and CDMA, the third mode will probably be Wi-Fi, although that part has not been confirmed.

It could be first smartphone to work with the Clearwire WiMAX network. Sprint sold its WiMAX, Xohm to Clearwire, last year. Currently, Sprint employees on parts of the campus in Overland Park and customers in Baltimore already have access dual-mode wireless network cards that can access either Sprint's traditional high-speed network or WiMAX.

Cleawire delivers a "True Broadband" experience, mobile Internet customers can expect to receive up to 4 Mbps download speeds.