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Areportfrom the Wall Street Journal is indicating that not only will Verizon and AT&T be selling the iPhone 5 in mid-October, so will their rival carrier Sprint. The report indicates that Sprint will be selling the iPhone 4, most likely at a cheaper price point, as well as the newly designed iPhone 5. Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin selling the iPhone 5 in mid-October, people familiar with the matter said, closing a huge hole in the No....

Take this one with a huge grain of salt, but Beatweek isreportingthat it has been sent a series of screenshots that detail a conversation between a Sprint support rep and a customer indicating that the carrier will be offering the iPhone. The conversation between the customer and the support rep apparently got around to the question of whether or not Apple’s smartphone would be arriving on the carrier at some point....

According to areport by Macworld, Sprint has set the record straight on getting an unlocked iPhone 4S from the company. Originally,Sprint and Verizonwere said to NOT be able to have the carrier-agnostic phones, as it was most likely locked down in software. Later, it was reported that Verizon would unlock your device if you paid your bill on time, but Sprint would not. Sprint will now unlock youriPhone 4Sif you request them to....

Sprint’s CEO has told its Board of Directors that it will need to purchase 30.5 million iPhones over the next 4 years,reports the WSJ. The deal is said to run $20B, a figure that will keep Sprint in the red until 2014. This would equate to $655 per phone if taken as an average number, that would indicate that these would be higher-end models. The publication cites sources familiar with the matter in saying that CEO Dan Hesse told the board in August that Sprint would likely lose money on the deal until 2014....

Motorola’s Xoom tablet has been spotted in the wild bearing a Sprint logo, suggesting that the Honeycomb-powered tablet could be on its way to the US carrier before long. A leaked image surfaced on theSprintUsers forum, posted by user “r0fl” who is said to be well known for his ability to provide information on new Sprint devices before they are announced. The Xoomrecently launchedon Verizon, indicating that the tablet would receive an LTE upgrade shortly after release....