Sprint and T-Mobile to get Apple iPhone 5 says report
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This information dovetails perfectly with a report from Jeffries and Co. analyst Peter Misek back in May, that said that an Apple iPhone 4S would be introduced this September with only minor changes to the current model, and would be offered by Sprint and T-Mobile along with AT&T and Verizon. Another analyst, Citadel's Shing Yin, said last week that by the end of the year, Sprint will be selling the Apple iPhone. Larsen says that Sprint would be the big winner if this pans out, because T-Mobile customers would have had access to the iPhone due to the carrier's pending merger with AT&T.
According to ChipHazard, the latest iteration of the Apple iPhone is currently being field tested on AT&T's network for signal reception and connectivity. The information came from a source inside AT&T and once the prototype passes the tests, it will be given to the contract manufacturers to start production of the phone. ArtoftheiPhone says that pre-production models are given to the networks to test two weeks before launch. Verizon was given the Apple iPhone 4 two weeks before Big Red rolled out the unit. Employees were given a 12 number pin that had to be punched into the prototype every 12 hours or else the phone would shut down.
If there is one common element running through these reports, it is an August/September introduction of the next Apple iPhone. Whether or not the next version of the phone will run on 2, 3 or 4 major U.S. carriers and has a major re-design or just small cosmetic changes, we should know definitively in the next 8 to 10 weeks. As usual in the months before the introduction of the latest handset from Apple, the rumor mill is running non-stop.
source: CNET via PCMag
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2. vvelez5 posted on 13 Jul 2011, 17:51 1 2
I don't have a problem with this I just don't see it happening.
5. Galen20K posted on 13 Jul 2011, 18:28 4 1
many other people including professionals "do" see it happening. Apple has been testing an AWS version of the iPhone 4 on T-Mobile's network for past year. It's the next logical step and if Apple wants to stay anywhere near the top of sales they'll have to offer it to the most amount of people as Possible as they keep losing ground as it stands. I like Android but I do seeing this happening, they have no choice really but to.
3. jroc74 posted on 13 Jul 2011, 17:51 5 2
I hope they do. Then some folks can stop saying "wait til it go to more carriers...Android is gonna suffer". Record sales? Its a given. Another choice for a decent phone? Sure.
What I want to stop is some ppl thinking....... if you dont have an iPhone.....you dont have an iPhone. Stop it. Everyone that wants the iPhone at this time already have it. Those that want it and didnt wanna leave their carriers will get it either by switching carriers or if it comes to their carrier.
But please stop it with the iPhone is the best...everything else sucks. As crazy as it sound....some ppl actually dont want it.
4. Jugga1680 (unregistered) posted on 13 Jul 2011, 18:16 3 2
If Sprint gets the iPhone with its true unlimited data (no throttling speeds like tmo)
It'll truly be sweeeet
I believe Sprint is finally gonna b good in a few years
6. Galen20K posted on 13 Jul 2011, 18:30 1 4
not if the Att T-Mobile merger goes into effect, Sprint will be in a terrible position and in a WAYY distant 3rd.
24. Wrong (unregistered) posted on 14 Jul 2011, 00:38 3 1
Being 3rd or whatever doesn't matter at all. Sprint will grow A LOT from that cluster f of a merger. att and vzw will only have customers to lose at that point. There is so much room for so many carriers, people want more choices.
7. Jugga1680 (unregistered) posted on 13 Jul 2011, 18:47 1 2
The merger goes thru n it'll sux for awhile
Just like when ATT n Alltel merged In the small markets
They'll give u a free phone n when u want to upgrade oh guess Wat
Your gonna have to switch to an ATT plan
N while this is goin on lightsquared will b rolling out their
service hopefully
But time will tell
41. bigdawg23 posted on 14 Jul 2011, 13:18 0 0
Alltel had GSM networks that were sold off to AT&T as part of the FCC approval. As an example Alltel was GSM in North Dakota.
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19. The_Miz posted on 13 Jul 2011, 22:26 5 6
Ah yes, Sprint and T-Mob gets the best phone ever released.
31. twenti7 posted on 14 Jul 2011, 02:06 8 2
Best in what regard? Sure the iPhone is stable, quick, silky smooth, and extremely simple in format. If that's what you like, then the iPhone probably is the best phone for YOU.
But what about the people that want their phone to be optimized for how they use it? The iPhone is most definitely NOT the best phone for those people. Just because you don't personally like/use certain features that Android offers, it doesn't make those features any less valid.
It's like if i were to go out and bash a Prius because it isn't "as good" as my Camaro. They're 2 completely different cars for 2 completely different types of drivers. iOS and Android are the same. They're made for different types of phone users, but they both excel at what they're made for.
38. NeXoS posted on 14 Jul 2011, 12:02 2 4
It's not that stable. Read apps comments in the crApp Store. Lots of complaints about games crashing.
My gf's Smurfs game even caused her iPhone to reboot! WTF? That's never happened on an Android.
42. quakan posted on 14 Jul 2011, 13:51 2 0
That's the developers problem...that's why the developer has to release an update through the app store to fix it. That's has nothing to do with the iPhone's stability.
45. stealthd posted on 14 Jul 2011, 16:53 0 0
Well let's see, the App Store is full of apps that aren't available on the Market that let you do a lot of things that you just can't do on Android. But go on, keep telling yourself Flash and Widgets add so much functionality they somehow magically beat out an entire thriving software ecosystem.
33. Jugga1680 posted on 14 Jul 2011, 02:41 1 0
* Verizon had to sell the smaller markets
Of alltel due to monopolies in markets like
North Dakota where all we had was altell Sprint n
Verizon
40. twenti7 posted on 14 Jul 2011, 13:12 0 0
Hm I didn't know that. Ignore my previous comment then xP
