The new HTC EVO Shift 4G also known as the HTC Speedy and the HTC Knight has apparently been posing for pictures, well at least one picture anyway, and apparently the image was posted by a Sprint employee who states that this is definitely the real deal with the HTC EVO Shift 4G handset.

According to the article over on Engadget by Sean Hollister, by way of Pocket Now, they aren’t that sure what else it could be so it probably is the aforementioned smartphone showing its slide out QWERTY keyboard, but is missing a front facing snapper and seems to be housed in plastic.

However, Hollister does say that there is something about the picture that is irksome, and that being the pasted on screen, which he says could mean the device is a dummy that had been altered to look like the real device, so what do our readers think, is this the HTC EVO Shift 4G or not?

Furthermore in want could be possibly related is Phone Arena have got hold of a screenshot by way of Android Central which shows the “HTC A7373” smartphone should hit Sprint as of the 9th of January 2011, which apparently points to a Russian version of the HTC Desire Z, which could mean that Sprint is getting their own version of the HTC Desire Z or that the “HTC A7373” is actually the HTC EVO Shift 4G, HTC Speedy, HTC Knight handset.

That’s a lot of guestimation going on there, so again we ask out readers, do you think the image is the real deal HTC EVO Shift 4G, or just a photoshopped image? Fell free to shout out your views in our comments area below.