The recent performance tests of the June 4-releasing Sprint HTC EVO 4G – the first handset designed to run on the country’s 4G network - have revealed that though the network is capable of delivering notable speed enhancement and good coverage, it apparently does not boast anything “revolutionary” in terms of mobile communications.

The performance of Sprint’s EVO 4G handset, which runs on Clearwire’s 4G WiMax networks, was tested in the Washington cities of Bellingham, Seattle, Snohomish, and Tacoma. The 4G service was also sampled in two Oregon cities – Salem and Portland.

Going by the analysis of the testing, the EVO apparently falls short of being a significant game-changer largely because of the sluggish speed of the Clearwire 4G service.

Though the EVO speeds in Oregon were found to be a tad better than the speeds in Washington tests, they still did not come up to the much-advertised download speeds of between 3 megabits per second (mbps) and 6 mbps, which have been greatly touted by both Sprint as well as Clearwire.

Specifically speaking, the average download speed that the EVO registered in Oregon was 2.3 mbps; while that in Washington was nowhere even close to the 10-mbps speeds, which Sprint claims the Clearwire 4G network is capable of delivering.

As such, though the 4G service will make the existing apps run slightly better and faster; it will, as of now, not pave the way for new, high-bandwidth mobile apps.