In Aircell’s implementation, Revision B can increase EVDO’s downstream speed from about 3.1M bps (bits per second) to 9.8M bps, according to Anand Chari, vice president of engineering.

Aircell said it adopted Android for the phone for future flexibility and to gain access to the more than 100,000 applications available for it. It’s a step away from a more proprietary set of ...