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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