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Best Buy Expects Sprint iPhone 5 in 1st Week of October
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There's an iPhone 5 coming? 
I just can't wait to hear all the details for the fall line up. I hope the press date is set next week for the week of September 12th.
I also hope AT&T is smart and let's us early bird iPhone4 customers upgrade early. So far they've been good about that.
I just can't wait to hear all the details for the fall line up. I hope the press date is set next week for the week of September 12th.
I also hope AT&T is smart and let's us early bird iPhone4 customers upgrade early.
So far they've been good about that.The whole page looks odd. I have seen MANY BB documents, and ZERO of them have ever looked like that page. I did work at a Store, not a corporate location though, so that might be some kind of strange inside corporate document that they do.
That could explain why there is no watermark or anything. As far as misspellings, something like that which seems to be intended for employees only probably doesn't undergo the same scrutiny that a true weekly ad might so that doesn't really mean anything to me.
My problem with it is that the the dates are definitely incorrect.
Like I said before, there is absolutely ZERO chance that this thing is going on pre-sale this week. One, because of the logic of the situation. They'd have to send out invites and announce THIS WEEK, and then start pre-sales IMMEDIATELY. Last year, if I remember correctly, the iPhone 4 was announced June 8th or 9th, and went on pre-sale at Best Buy about a week later. TWO, my best friend has ZERO information on anything to do with the next iPhone, and again, a search through the Employee Toolkit showed ZERO results regarding a new iPhone.
NO FREAKING WAY this year is gonna be significantly different than last year. My guess and hope is that Apple will announce the date for the September event sometime this or next week, and it'll take place a week afterwards. The pre-sales will start a week after the announcement and it will go on sale within 2 weeks of the pre-sale.
I don't care about the iPhone 5, tell me about the Mac Pro...this is "MacRumors" not "iPhoneRumors"...
Thats what I thought too when i saw that!
Plus BB doesnt have the best track history
Thanks for that insight
. I guess you should only save your delightful posts for the Mac Pro rumours then? We don't want you to run out of witty things to say after all...Sorry, this site was started before Apple sold iPhones; the site operators chose to keep the same domain name, despite Apple's changing focus.
Frankly, Apple would still just be a niche PC maker if they hadn't introduced the iPhone. Telephones now comprise well over half of Apple's revenue and has catapulted them to the company with the second-highest market capitalization and has generated billions in cash.
You need to accept the fact that the iPhone is a large part of Apple's current success today and some of that innovation and supply chain leverage is now migrating into the Mac product line.
Macs are probably about 35-40% of Apple's total revenue and over two-thirds of that PC revenue is from notebook computers. The Mac Pro is a specialty product which is why Apple is fine to let the design linger on for a long time before updating.
I've been with Sprint for 20 years. How many people here would view Sprint as the first choice for an iPhone 5? If not why not?
While I'd like the option for an iPhone on Sprint I fear my low monthly bill ($120 for 2x EVO 4gs with unlimited data) is going to go up by at least 50%.
Well... what seems to happen is that the iPhone kills the unlimited data plans. If Sprint is not as large as AT&T or Verizon, how could Spring continue to offer unlimited data once a surge of new customers start eating up the bandwidth?
I'm surprised about T-Mobile. They should have the iPhone already. When AT&T announced that they wanted to buy T-Mobile, I didn't worry about it... since AT&T could just absorb T-Mobile customers and offer them the iPhone. But now... things are screwy...
- If T-Mobile doesn't merge with AT&T, will T-Mobile get the iPhone and keep unlimited data plans?
- If AT&T buys T-Mobile, what happens to the unlimited T-Mobile data plans?
From the way I'm looking at things... the iPhone could kill unlimited data plans with all four major networks.
Sprint wasn't my first choice because of two reasons...
- No iPhone
- Unsure about coverage
If they pick up the iPhone, I might switch to Sprint to get unlimited data. Although, I started liking the cheap data plan with AT&T. It seems that I don't really need a lot of data. By using the 200 MB plan, I save $15 a month.
AT&T's network is pretty good in my area. I was with T-Mobile back when the company was called Omnipoint. It was tough to quit them, but I get good phone coverage after I moved. I went with AT&T because I was sure that the coverage was good in the area and I liked the iPhone 4.
Can't wait!
I can't wait for the iPhone 5 overall, I still have my unlimited data plan with AT&T. I am going to wait on the Sprint iPhone 5 until I know for sure Sprint plans to keep its unlimited data.
I can't wait for the iPhone 5 overall, I still have my unlimited data plan with AT&T. I am going to wait on the Sprint iPhone 5 until I know for sure Sprint plans to keep its unlimited data.
I don't know why so many people are so anxious about Sprint's unlimited 3G. It's SUPER SLOW because its EVDO. You'll never reach 2Mbps. That's why with HSPA+ ya can't loose. Sprint's 3G is a TINY step above AT&T and T-Mobile's EDGE network which is 2G. Think of it more as 2.5G just as many think of HSPA+ as 3.5G.
This article proves Best Buy employees have no friggin' idea what they're talking about or what's going on in the tech world.
Having worked for Best Buy around the time the iPhone 3G came out, I can truthfully say the only information we were 100% sure about is we couldn't purchase it on launch day like everyone else, then they decided against it.
And if the iPhone comes out in October? Bye Apple, hello Samsung.
Having worked for Best Buy around the time the iPhone 3G came out, I can truthfully say the only information we were 100% sure about is we couldn't purchase it on launch day like everyone else, then they decided against it.
And if the iPhone comes out in October? Bye Apple, hello Samsung.
I'm pretty sure Apple have been reluctant as of late to release an iPhone with T-Mobile because the future of that carrier is uncertain.
The release date just gets later and later. I was hoping for a pre xmas release in Australia, but at this rate its looking a bit tight for that. End of Oct for the US, we'll be lucky to see it here before xmas.