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Sprint to Also Get iPhone This Year?

A Sprint iPhone would make me a very happy man, since I wouldn't have to pay $200 to leave early, and would save money over a comparable AT&T plan. The only drawback would be not being able to use it overseas, but I don't do much more than a week's worth of international traveling, so it wouldn't be that big of a deal.
 
I read through most of the posts, but I may have missed a few. The iPhone will not be announced for any other carrier in June. Doing this would kill AT&T. Even if they announced that is would be available on other carriers in October many people would hold off and AT&T would miss out. At the earliest, nothing concerning other carriers will be announced before the new iPhone has been out a while on AT&T.

LTE is great and all, but a LTE iPhone will have to fall back on something so Apple could just as easily come out with a CDMA iPhone now since a LTE iPhone on Verizon will have to fall back on...CDMA.

Sprint's service isn't necessarily the issue. The issue with Sprint is the horrible customer service. I would be in jail now if I had a gun and a Sprint agent in the same room following a call when I had them. Horrible!
 
Didn't a developer discover device ID's in an OS beta version - iPhone 3,1 iPhone 3,2 iPhone 3,3?

I am fairly certain I remember reading that. Those could refer to 1) AT&T 2) VZ and Sprint 3) T-Mobile.

Just a total wild ass guess. I am sure eventually iPhone will be coming to all carriers, but the timing is totally up in the air.

I would think T-Mobile might be the first, since its GSM, and the only modification would be the radio that had that odd T-Mobile 3G frequency band. In addition, Apple already has a relationship with Deutche Telecom, the parent of T-Mobile.

The Sprint and VZ should be able to work on the same CDMA model.

I don't see why the iPhone wouldn't go to Sprint and T-Mobile too, if it lands at Verizon.

In other iPhone markets, when exclusivity ended multiple carriers picked up the iPhone. ex.- France, UK, Canada. Thus, it would make sense that Verizon wouldn't be the only carrier to receive the iPhone.

However, Sprint and T-Mobile have smaller customer bases. In addition, both have a greater proportion of pre-paid subs as opposed to Verizon which has 90% postpaid subs. Thus, the iPhone would have less appeal at T-Mobile and S relatively speaking. But, that doesn't eliminate the two as possibilities, just would make it seem that those two are less of a priority than Verizon.
 
tomegun said:
I read through most of the posts, but I may have missed a few. The iPhone will not be announced for any other carrier in June. Doing this would kill AT&T. Even if they announced that is would be available on other carriers in October many people would hold off and AT&T would miss out. At the earliest, nothing concerning other carriers will be announced before the new iPhone has been out a while on AT&T.
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Doing it this way would also be a horrible way for Apple to start off a new business relationship with new carriers. If you don't announce that the iPhone will be available on their networks in June, then those carriers could potentially lose customers who may have stayed with them had they known that the iPhone was coming. Customers like me, who will switch to AT&T if there is no Sprint phone announced at WWDC. I would not switch if Apple announces that there's a Sprint iPhone on the way.
 
tomegun said:
I read through most of the posts, but I may have missed a few. The iPhone will not be announced for any other carrier in June. Doing this would kill AT&T. Even if they announced that is would be available on other carriers in October many people would hold off and AT&T would miss out. At the earliest, nothing concerning other carriers will be announced before the new iPhone has been out a while on AT&T.

LTE is great and all, but a LTE iPhone will have to fall back on something so Apple could just as easily come out with a CDMA iPhone now since a LTE iPhone on Verizon will have to fall back on...CDMA.

Sprint's service isn't necessarily the issue. The issue with Sprint is the horrible customer service. I would be in jail now if I had a gun and a Sprint agent in the same room following a call when I had them. Horrible!
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Their customer service is perfectly fine, to me. Idk why people make such a big deal about it. It makes them look like they talk to them every single day. Don't find a solution, via phone, then go to a Sprint store or Google it. I'm sure you'd find the solution some way.
 
If true, I would be SO happy. I'm currently w/ Sprint on an old SERO plan and was planning on upgrading to a Android/Blackberry but I'm not thrilled w/ my choices. (No 4g)

However, this news coupled with the rise in AT&T's ETF's makes sense.
 
Do the CDMA networks in America support simultaneous voice and data?
I though that was the whole attraction to GSM? in that it can do voice and data at high speeds (currently 42Mbps in Australia )
 
tedobo said:
Do the CDMA networks in America support simultaneous voice and data?
I though that was the whole attraction to GSM? in that it can do voice and data at high speeds (currently 42Mbps in Australia )
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There was a recent article on MR about Verizon I think, implementing that soon, but as yet they do not.
 
I was planing on getting an HTC EVO to replace my 2G iPhone (on T-Mobile), I really don't want to keep playing this waiting game so if there is nothing at WWDC about the iPhone being on Sprint I will be the happy owner of an EVO 4G.
 
Nebrie said:
Because the current mobile ecosystem didn't exist back then. The only phones Verizon sold had giant Verizon logos both on the phone and in 50 places in the interface and were customized to trick you into spending more money. Apple didn't want any of that so Verizon turned them away.
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You're thinking of dumbphones. Smartphones on Verizon (and other carriers) were barely touched, even before the iPhone. At most there was an optional theme and perhaps a link to an optional nav app. Smartphone users got their apps from anywhere they wanted, which rarely was from the carrier itself.

As for getting people to spend more money on apps, that's Apple's thing.

inkswamp said:
Unless one of those carriers has been painting your product in a negative light in their ads. Not sure how depicting iPhone as an inhabitant of the Island of Misfit Toys or its users as befuddled and confused by their 3G service would play in the upper ranks of Apple, but I'm guessing not well.
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Why would Apple care what the ads said about ATT?

The Island of Misfit Toys painted the iPhone as a good device on a poor network.
 
goobot said:
no its just based on upgraded hardware.

2g is 1,1
3g 1,2
3gs 2,1
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Right, I understand that part. The 2.5G & 3G had same internals, thus the "1". The 3GS has more RAM and faster chip and GPU hence the "2". The new iPhone is expected to have a upgraded CPU hence the "3". However, there are three versions of it, allegedly. 3,1/3,2/3,3. My speculation is that the 3 variations could point to different basebands. Would that not make sense?
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010...ew-iphones-new-ipod-touch-and-new-ipad-found/
 
I don't understand why people wanting an iPhone that can only be used with 1 carrier in 1 country. I rather see Apple simply put a quad-band or 5-band UMTS on the next iPhone, and simply sell it unlocked so users can just go to an Apple store, but the iPhone, and then choose AT&T or T-Mobile. I mean isn't that how it is with computers? You buy a computer, than you pick your ISP. Nobody wants to buy a computer that can only be used with 1 ISP. Phones should be the same.
 
I know a Sprint (Ericsson) network tech of 15+ years that was told he'd be laid off at some point this summer. In the last few weeks it seems they've changed their tune a little and he won't be out of work - in fact he's been doing an odd amount of work in rural areas. I realize this doesn't mean much but it makes me a little more optimistic that they are preparing for the iPhone.
 
hmm

1) the more i read about these multi carrier for the iPhone rumors, the more I think it starts to make sense. I'd bet that in exchange for dropping the exclusivity, Apple agreed to announce the new iPhone and give AT&T a 3 month or so headstart on being able to sell it. Sounds fair.

2) Im curious to know what the power draw is for CDMA chips within phones compared to the GSM ones. Clearly apple has probably been secretly developing a CDMA phone to see how it works, but who knows if we'll have to go thru what everyone had to go thru on AT&T when the iPhone was in its infancy. Everyone remember those problems with iPhones requesting too much bandwidth and thus screwing up the whole network? and the other networks protocol issue they had that reduced the battery life? Will we have to go thru that all over again for the CDMA phones? Mainly I'm more curious as to what the power draw is like for the different networks. It'd be ashamed if the battery was worse that GSM. Hopefully not.
 
samh004 said:
There was a recent article on MR about Verizon I think, implementing that soon, but as yet they do not.
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these are just rumors which are making the headlines............the chief financial officer of sprint Mr Robert Burst has said that to the best of knowledge i still cant tell you the truth.
 
Wow. It must be a REALLY slow news day.

Rumors where the author says "I don't really believe it." Well, if you don't believe it and you still post it ... must be a slow news day. How about creating a countdown clock to WWDC and posting it on the homepage of MacRumors ? :)

OH!!! I GET IT!!! IT JUST HIT ME!!! MACRUMORS.COM :D
 
SandynJosh said:
Yeah, well my wife's second cousin, by the marriage of her half-brother, has an uncle that dog sits for a big wig at Sprint and he over heard the big wig's daughter talking on her phone to her boyfriend's older sister that it's not gonna happen until 2011, if then.
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Couldn't have said it any better lol. Rumors are what they are, don't lose any sleep over them.
 
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