New Apple sprint iPhone 5

Sprint iPhone 5:
Apple launch events are typically dramatic, but tomorrow’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event could find one company — Sprint — placing its very future on the line. According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple will announce tomorrow that Sprint will at last gain access to the iPhone, joining rivals AT&T and Verizon. The reported cost: more than $20 billion, in the form of guarantee to purchase and subsidize more than 30 million iPhones over the next few years — whether Sprint can sell them or not.That would be a huge risk. And for now, the report remains pure speculation. But it’s juicy speculation. Writes the Journal.If Sprint has bet right, the iPhone will be the device that finally breaks the company’s half-decade long slide and keeps much larger rivals Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. from running off with the bulk of the wireless industry’s subscribers and profits. If it’s wrong, the iPhone deal will saddle the company with a costly albatross at a time when it is already stretching to manage an expensive network upgrade and cover debt payments.If that isn’t intriguing enough, gadget blog Boy Genius Report today took the rumor-mongering one step further, claiming that Sprint actually bought exclusive access to the new iPhone 5 for that price, relegating rivals AT&T and Verizon to the less-capable iPhone 4S.For now, we’ll have to wait and see — and also feel free to ponder the impact of the new iPhone on mobile operators, which my colleague Michelle Maisto explore here: What Apple’s new iPhone will mean for mobile operators.
Inside Sprint's Bet on iPhone :
As Apple Inc. prepares to release its newest iPhone Tuesday, the terms it has squeezed from Sprint Nextel Corp. reveal the leverage it has over the telecom companies that once ran the show.Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. wireless carrier, is making a multibillion-dollar gamble that access to the iPhone will be the ticket to a turnaround. Sprint has committed to buy at least 30.5 million iPhones, even though it would likely lose money on the deal until 2014, according to people familiar with the matter.Shares of Sprint fell 10%, or 31 cents, to $2.73 Monday after The Wall ..
New Leaks Suggest iPhone 4S and Sprint iPhone 5 Tuesday Launch:
Whoops! New images are adding some strong evidence to the rumormongering that Apple's going to announce the release of the iPhone 5 on Sprint's network come Tuesday. And you can thank Radio Shack for this one.According to an alleged screenshot taken of a Radio Shack internal inventory page, both a 16-gigabyte iPhone 5 and a 32-gigabyte iPhone 5 are a-coming. It's a bit more a significant bit of evidence than the guessing game that arose from an earlier internal Sprint memo, which told company employees that vacations were blacked out between September 30 and October 15 due to the "possibility of a major phone launch.
Sprint iPhone on Radio Shack inventory page:
It looks like Sprint will indeed be getting the iPhone 5 soon--perhaps on Tuesday.Apparently confirming earlier rumors, a screenshot published by Engadget purportedly of a Radio Shack inventory page lists a 16GB and 32GB iPhone 5. It was suggested in early September that a Sprint iPhone 5 was in the offing when an internal carrier memo informed employees of a vacation blackout from September 30 through October 15 due to the "possibility of a major phone launch."The screenshot also seems to confirm earlier reports from the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, which reported that customers would have access to an unlimited data plan.Apple might give us more information on a Sprint iPhone on Tuesday, when the company is widely expected to take the wraps off a next-generation iPhone during a Cupertino, Calif., press event. Apple sent invitations to the media last week that featured a cluster of four iOS icons and the tag line "Let's talk iPhone."