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Video of the HTC EVO 4G Being Rooted

By Kat Hannaford Published May 24, 2010, 4:39 am ET

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11 days before the EVO 4G launches exclusively on Sprint, and hackers have already successfully rooted the phone. Video showing their finesse after the jump.

Before you start rioting over how Grack got an EVO two weeks before the big launch, I best break the bad news to you—Google was dishing them out (for free) at the Google I/O event last week. Curses! [Grack via MobileCrunch]

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