Sprint Briefing Sales Reps for October iPhone 4 Launch? No Sprint iPhone 5 Until 2012?

Tuesday September 13, 2011 10:23 am PDT by Eric Slivka

TUAW reports that it has received word that Sprint has begun training its sales representatives for a planned October launch of the iPhone 4 on the carrier.

A Sprint Nextel sales associate told TUAW that the carrier has started briefing its employees on an imminent Sprint iPhone 4 launch.

The briefing reportedly told the sales team that Sprint will begin offering the iPhone 4 in October 2011 (next month) with standard Sprint data plans; they will include a $10 data smartphone premium that is not specific to iPhone.

The report offers two other curious tidbits, however, claiming that Sprint will at some point offer a "4G" iPad and that Sprint will not begin offering the iPhone 5 until sometime next year, most likely early spring. The iPhone 5 claim directly contradicts earlier mainstream media reports indicating that Sprint would launch the iPhone 5 at the same time as AT&T and Verizon in mid-October.

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Caliber26

Posted: 9 months ago

I don't see Sprint offering a 16-month old model as their iPhone debut. If not the iPhone 5, the 'new' iPhone 4S is probably more like it.

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ArtOfWarfare

Posted: 9 months ago

Are you saying Verizon and AT&T would carry the iPhone 5 while Sprint would only have the iPhone 4S? What are your reasons for thinking that is likely?

Because we've been thinking about that S all wrong the whole time.

The S in fact stands for Sprint! AT&T and Verizon (and maybe even T-Mobile) will get the iPhone 5, while Sprint will get the iPhone 4Sprint!

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TZeruk

Posted: 9 months ago

I'd be a bit disappointed, tbh, if they released the iPhone 4. I've been waiting out the iPhone on Sprint because of the great rates on plans ... but am not all that interested in getting a 16 month old phone, as great as it still is.

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Gigaman

Posted: 9 months ago

Heres the thing, didn't Verizon prep for the 3GS in order to not leak anything for the iPhone 4? This could be that senerio. The 2012 launch doesn't make sense period.

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sevimli

Posted: 9 months ago

epic fail :eek:

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I is Mac

Posted: 9 months ago

Who would even buy that...

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xFenixKnightx

Posted: 9 months ago

This is getting...no wait, we're past that. This is getting ridonkulous.

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too758

Posted: 9 months ago

Heres the thing, didn't Verizon prep for the 3GS in order to not leak anything for the iPhone 4? This could be that senerio. The 2012 launch doesn't make sense period.

I agree with this. Why would Foxxconn lower their shipments of the iPhone 4 when they are planning a major launch on the last service provider that offers unlimited data? Oh, and survey says that 52% of surveyed sprint customers would buy the iPhone if it were released on sprint. If the iPhone 4 is what sprint is getting then I guess the Epic 4G Touch is what I'll be getting.

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bushido

Posted: 9 months ago

I hope for a uniband iPhone 4S or whatever and an actual iPhone 5

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Jim01

Posted: 9 months ago

I like the fact that it mentions standard data plans. Gives me some hope that I will be able to pick one up on my SERO-P account. Only time will tell.

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