Update (6/9/2010): Sprint's first-day sales of the HTC EVO 4G
were good, but apparently not quite as good as the carrier
initially led us to believe. The company just issued a
correction stating that sales were actually "in line with" the
number of Instincts and Pres sold over their first three days on
the market combined, not three times higher. No explanation was
given for the over-estimation other than admitting that they
erred in the comparison.  Original story below: Sprint
reportedly sold a record number of HTC EVO 4G smartphones on the
device's first day of availability this past Friday. The company
did not give any specific figures, but said it was three times
the number of Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre devices sold over
their first three days on the market combined. Considering the
latter two are estimated to have sold between 35,000 and 60,000
units during their respective opening weekends, some analysts
put the HTC EVO 4G number at around 320,000.  Whatever the exact
figure is it seems Sprint custo