Rev A moves to first handset at Sprint Nextel: Upgrade to Mogul smartphone available on HTC site

You remember when rivals Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless dueled over the coverage of their respective CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Rev. A network buildouts?
One carrier popped out of the gate first, leading to bickering about whether “first” was indeed better.
Get ready for deja vu all over again.
Until now, both carriers have been enticing business travelers to use the faster network upgrade for laptops sending and receiving large files. The slower Rev. 0 networks at both carriers are handling the load of handheld devices out there.
Sprint Nextel just announced that its Mogul handset, made by HTC America, will be the first device beyond the laptop card to take advantage of its new broadband network, which covers 234 million potential customers — close to the carrier’s national footprint. A software upgrade currently available from HTC’s Web site will do the trick.
Sprint Nextel claims that the Rev. A upgrade (no cost) will allow the Mogul ($200 with two-year contract) to download at speeds about twice that of Rev. 0, with uploads about eight times faster. Real world? Expect download speeds of between 600 kilobits per second and 1.4 megabits per second, with upload speeds of between 350 and 500 kbps.
Some handsets at AT&T Mobility are capable of using that carrier’s GSM network upgrade for broadband, known as HSDPA, which is roughly comparable to the Rev. 0 speeds on its CDMA rivals’ networks.