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I'm Not Giving Up: Sprint iPhone February 7th?
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I have the EVO 4G, and know it is the best smart phone on the market today. It is rooted with a custom rom, and is smoking fast and silky smooth, and awesome battery life, all on a wicked huge 4.3" screen.
Sprint service is bar none fantastic, never a dropped call, and full unlimited plans are the cheapest on the market. Verizon is the biggest rip off in the industry.
While I think that the iPhone will eventually make its way to Sprint, I'd be shocked if it were this soon. I wouldn't expect that they would be allowed to have it at practically the same time as Verizon.
I think thats part of it, but Apple could just add that extra ban for 1700MHz it wouldn't be too hard to do.
I'm not sold on Sprint ever getting the iPhone for the fact that their 4G is WiMax were almost everyone else is going to be using LTE or even HSPA+, unless some other major carriers around the world are also using WiMax I don't see the iPhone supporting that technology
your numbers are wrong vzw is still the largest vzw has 102 million+ users
http://phandroid.com/2011/01/28/verizon-were-still-bigger-than-att-me-i-agree/
Tons of phones, even the iPhone 4. It is on ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile-Europe, SoftBank, Orange, O2, Vodafone, Rogers, TELUS, Bell. That is ten carriers right there for the iPhone 4 alone, and I think I am missing a few still.
Well then just three, ATT, Verizon, and T-Mobile unlocked.
I am pretty shocked that T-Mobile in the U.S. doesn't officially have the iPhone yet, in Europe, T-Mobile has the iPhone 4; England, Germany, Holland, and a few other countries.
Apple makes HUGE profits from the iPhone. Not just in the hardware itself but in app sales, media sales, accessory sales, royalties. Not to mention if they utilize NFC on the next iPhone they could share in transaction costs of people using the iPhone to pay for stuff.
Going forward it makes more sense to be on all four US carriers. The profit is huge, even if it means making an additional type of iPhone or adding a different antenna.
If you look in the NFC space alone, Google is handing out for free, NFC point-of-sale devices to work with their phones. Apple will want to be in on this game as well and more devices means more leverage in NFC technology and infrastructure used.
Going forward it makes more sense to be on all four US carriers. The profit is huge, even if it means making an additional type of iPhone or adding a different antenna.
If you look in the NFC space alone, Google is handing out for free, NFC point-of-sale devices to work with their phones. Apple will want to be in on this game as well and more devices means more leverage in NFC technology and infrastructure used.
I half-expect another carrier for the U.S. to be launched at WWDC (I'm guessing T-Mobile, since Sprint uses WiMax instead of LTE, like AT&T and Verizon are doing).
Yup. He FORCES everyone that owns an Apple product to buy it. He stands there with them at the register with a gun to their heads.
Steve job is too cool for sprint, sorry. Maybe tmobile since they're in Europe also, I could see how their European counter part could play a roll in persuading for the iPhone to come to tmobile u.s. But sprint is a no go, might as well hope for iPhone on metro hahahah, and I think there is another reason why u won't see it on sprit or tmobile, Steve thinks his iPhone is way too high end to be on crappy/cheap carrier. When u think of sprint n tmobile u think cheap!
By your logic.. thats saying ihe Iphone is only for the upper class/rich
That's garbage.. If that's the case I don't think I want an iphone, I could switch to Verizon but compared to Sprint.. I just can't justify paying that much money for a cell phone bill
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I've heard about HP/Palm introducing things on the 7th, possibly for Sprint, but nothing else in regards to the iPhone. Maybe someday it will happen, but after the huge announcement of Verizon not too long ago, it doesn't seem likely to me that they'd add another carrier this soon.
Good point. I find Sprint to be awesome in Chicago. My rooted EVO 4G is my fav smart phone of all time. On Sprint I never drop a call, get wicked fast 3g speeds, and the Google Maps/Navigation works flawlessly. And the best thing is pricing packages Sprint has, blows away Verizon, plus we get free roaming on Verizon network if Sprint isn't available.
I have had T-Mobile, and there were spotty with crappy service, and lots of dropped calls, and that was with 3 different phones over the course of a couple years. T-Mo just plain sucks.
I had ATT on my iPhone3G, and there were in the middle for me, not and but not fantastic like Sprint.
Why wouldn't Steve Jobs want the iPhone on Sprint that has almost 50 million U.S. customers ? He would for sure pick up a few million new buyers easily. As a business, why turn away that profit ?
Exactly. This isn't a popularity contest, it's a business. If Apple has a product that can easily be integrated into an existing network then they'll do it. Sooner than later. Sprint and T-Mobile might not be the largest carriers, but they do account for significant chunk of the market. Puts Apple in a position to sell some more handsets, and prevent Android and others from gaining more ground.
I would love to see Sprint announce the iPhone next week, but I'd be surprised to see it happen this soon. I would not be surprised if it happened later this year though. On the other hand, it would explain VZ's offering of unlimited data. Not only to steal AT&T, and get more lock-ins, but it would also minimize Sprint's advantages.
If the iPhone is supposed to be marketed to the upper class/rich they wouldnt be selling at Wal-Mart!
I was just telling my friend that last night. I noticed the same thing. I guess they are holding out hope as well, or working on something behind the scenes already..... or it could mean nothing.