The email reads, in part:
Hello, I was writing to comment on your article about the iPhone going to other carriers. I work in an electronics store that has a mobile phone store within it. I can confirm that Sprint will be carrying the iPhone beginning in June. They’ve begun to grease the wheels for advertising. There is no news in regards to a Verizon version however.
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No surprise here. I have been suggesting this for a while, as well as what bond co stooge said above.
Apple is in a prime situation with the iPhone to set the terms and let any carrier that agrees to have it.
This would be a win for everyone.
Apple has nothing to gain and everything to lose by being tied to AT&T;at this point.
Sarasota – If the iPhone comes to Verizon I could finally own one.
Meant to type ‘Sprint’ of course.
I’d contemplate suicide (or maybe even Android, for crying out load). I have zero ATT coverage and I’d be roaming on Sprint.
Please, Steve . . . Noooooooooooo!
Ok. Just everyone knows. Don’t be fooled with verizon and LTE right now. Yes they are testing it. But it’s only the data signal, not voice. For the record. AT&T;is in better position for a LTE drop because they have the equipment in place.
As for apple joining the LTE game. From apple’s current standpoint they seem not be jumping on every bandwagon of new technology. Look no bluray, no USB 3.0, no amoled screens. They didn’t put a 3G iPhone out till a certain percentage of users could use it. I don’t think there will be an LTE iPhone for 2-3 years. Think logically with apple instead of jumping ahead on hardware. It’s always been software making the most of the hardware, if the hardware matches their satisfaction.
Best Buy currently carries only the Sprint Overdrive WiFi hub which I am currently trying on a 30 day trial. I understood from a sales person that they would add Sprint phones. They are offering HTC Evo on pre-order for $199 with instant rebate.
If they are to offer I phone, I believe it would have to be Sprint 4G, otherwise HTC with 4G and Wi-fi hub would look very enticing.
As for the overdrive -good option if you don’t have an iPhone. i’ve been testing with iPod touch 3G. Problem streaming Pandor while I was driving, but no problem when I was walking with the Overdrive in my brief case. Nor quite up to my N router and cable speeds, however.
Taking it on the rod in CA and NV next week to tether my MacBook Pro and iPod.
“‘Apple’s next-gen iPhone is coming to Sprint’, claims a Best Buy employee, who also reported that, ‘Yeah, Macs get fewer viruses than PCs, but there’s hardly any software for Macs.'”
Well, I can say this. I have been a Sprint customer since 2005 (had an iPhone briefly in 08 but had to sell it because ATT was terrible here) and i have always been frustrated at the lack of High Speed data in my area. (3G or EV whatever) Now all of a sudden my contract was up last April and the Sprint store was telling me “sit tight, we are turning on new towers this spring” I was not buying their story, but sure enough, last week I suddenly get high speed data EVERYWHERE around my area, and I live in a fairly rural area (central MN about 150 miles north of Minneapolis) is this a sign of needing extra bandwidth for something? perhaps…….
I had Sprint years ago. It was HORRIBLE. I hope there’s a Verizon version.
When the original iPhone came out, I was on Sprint, which I promptly cancelled.
Upon speaking to them, they asked why I was switching, and I told them I switched for the iPhone.
This was our next exchange of conversation:
Sprint Rep: If that’s what you want, we have the new HTC Touch! It does everything the iPhone does and more!
Me: Yeah right. Look, I know you’re reading a scripted answer to me, and I know you have to do so because it’s your job, but even you can’t possibly believe that, right?
Sprint Rep: A laugh, followed by, no admission of agreement, but no refutal either.
Me: You’re laughing because you agree with me, aren’t you?
Sprint Rep: Another laugh, followed by, “Have a nice day.”
This has to be the funniest rumor yet. A best buy employee…. Seriously?
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Is this the same employee shown with his buddies smashing the iPad just for fun outside the store?
fitting, the sprint public relations guy has to work at best buy part time… lets hope they get the iphone soon
….a Best Buy hourly employee knows a guy who has a friend whose buddy knows at guy at his local Sprint store who’s really sure, well, uh, pretty darned sure that fer shure that like, it’s like, really gonna happen.
Yep. I’ll take that rumor to the bank. From some slacker at Best Buy. It doesn’t get more accurate that this.
Probably the same guy who told me I’d love Vista!
@So let me get this right… – That’s the way the real spy game works. You can’t get the real plan, you don’t even know anything is going on. Then you find out there will be deliveries of 2000 cases of toilet paper a week to a certain place. One roll per soldier per week X 96 rolls per case X 2000 cases says there’s going to be around 200,000 troops at this place. You ask why? Then the fun begins.
This floor sweeper says the display rack materials are arriving. Why?
For Apple to align with Sprint and have it rise from the ashes, which it could, with the iPhone and some decent plans, would be a game changer for the entire mobile carrier space, to the benefit of users. What happens when two companies work together to not be evil? I would not be disappointed at this news.
The 4G iPhone doesn’t come out until the end of June. WWDC starts on June 6. Is Aquarius aligned with Mars? I doubt it.
I was talking (actually flirting) with a woman at a starbucks a few weeks ago. She said she worked at AT&T;and when the discussion got to the iPhone (she was using her’s when I started to talk to her), I told here I heard it was going to be offered on another carrier. She said this was bunk because AT&T;had just signed an exclusive contract with Apple for the iPhone up to 2012.
So there ya go…
A BestBuy employee! Oh wow it must be true since every one knows what mental giants work at Bestbuy. There is BS and then there is real BS. Just another mind fart from Tech Update.
Since AT&T;is doing the 3g iPad they were given a six month extension, by Apple, on their right to be the only carrier for the iPhone. The extension will take them through 2010.
Social elitism at it’s finest.
I like how all retail employees are automatically one of the dumbest classes of humankind, utterly ignorant and likely to be able to construct a complete sentence, let alone spy an inventory screen or possibly overhear a conversation between execs while on sales floor. Believe it or not, there are college degreed retail employees, and even tech savvy mba students that work retail.
I agree, it’s unlikely that anyone except at the highest levels would know this information, but keep the unnecessary arrogance and stereotyping to a minimum.
@ MacTony–
Funniest rumor ever? No way, not by a long shot.
Obviously, you weren’t here for the one that was “leaked” by the convenience store sandwich delivery guy!
This story is such bull. Some of the “facts” cited in the article are so blatantly false.
After much thought on this notion. I have to say I highly doubt this. Reason is…Sprint phones are not only CDMA but they require a PCS chip in them from Sprint.
i really hope apple announces it before i get the evo 4g
if they do ill jump to iphone and dump my future evo
i really hope its true
poor htc apple is gonna f@@k up their party
am gussing sprint will realese the evo 4g at june 4th so they can get more costumers when the iphone arrives so they wont tell us something about iphone after june 4th