We'll warn you that we have nothing but the word of an suspected Sprint employee that this is the real deal, but we don't know what else it could be if it walks like a duck and quacks like an EVO with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, we're prone to believe it's the HTC EVO Shift 4G. Issue in the noticeable lack of front-facing camera, silver track pad and those throwback flat keys, and we're even willing to forgive and forget those rapidly penciled watermarks on the keyboard and on top of the clearly 'shopped screen. Even if this shot is legit, we haven't seen the full device yet it sure looks like this Knight is wearing a suit of plastic armor around the edges.
In possibly related news, Android Central lifted an alleged screenshot of a Sprint database showing an "HTC A7373" handset coming to Sprint on -- January 9th, and while one Russian e-tailer seems to think that codename refers to the GSM-friendly Desire Z, we have to imagine a Knight / Speedy / EVO Shift release is far more probable than a T-Mobile G2 redux on Sprint's CDMA frequencies.
Update: Just to be clear, there are a few things --about this image that irk us, not least of which that pasted-on screen. We're inclined to think this might be a dummy unit that was touched up to look like a real phone.
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