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[BuddhistGirafe]

Thanks to Mac Rumors for this. http://www.macrumors.com/2010/05/23/...one-this-year/

[Jellotime91]

It would make sense for Sprint to get it if Verizon gets it. They are both CDMA.

[ghostface147]

I will only go to a carrier that can use both data and voice at the same time. I do think all providers should get it in the US however. One day they will, now that Sprint is also looking into LTE.

[Jeremy Sikora]

This is the latest rumor yes. Do I believe it... not really but anything is possible I suppose.

[Guzman]

I just vomited in my mouth thanks to the title of this thread.

I do not forsee Sprint getting the iPhone.

Yes sprint is looking into LTE and yes they have some markets with 4G but frankly they have spotty at best service so much of the country that there is no way that Jobs would go for it. Oh wait...

[munan]

More likely than Verizon, less likely than T-Mobile.
Again, CDMA would require all new hardware and I just don't see Verizon since a major selling point of the iPhone is how much you can do at the same time. i.e. data and voice simultaneously. Sprint supports that, but so does T-Mobile, and since at&t and T-Mobile share the same tech, it's a matter of popping in a new SIM and you're golden.
Verizon has bad-mouthed the iPhone and Apple too much. They'll never see it. NEVER.

[iquinn]

Originally Posted by munan

More likely than Verizon, less likely than T-Mobile.
Again, CDMA would require all new hardware and I just don't see Verizon since a major selling point of the iPhone is how much you can do at the same time. i.e. data and voice simultaneously. Sprint supports that, but so does T-Mobile, and since at&t and T-Mobile share the same tech, it's a matter of popping in a new SIM and you're golden.
Verizon has bad-mouthed the iPhone and Apple too much. They'll never see it. NEVER.

None of what you said is really accurate. First there are already CDMA iPhones that have been made, most likely for the China market. Second ATT and TMO are both GSM but TMO's is much different then what ATT is using, that is why an unlocked iPhone can only use EDGE when used on TMO.

[iquinn]

Originally Posted by Guzman

I just vomited in my mouth thanks to the title of this thread.

LMAO, I was going to comment on the use of the word "to" as opposed to the correct use of the word "too" but I thought I would cut the OP some slack.

[Jellotime91]

@iquinn
China Unicom uses W-CDMA which is actually more similar to GSM than CDMA, despite the name.

I wouldn't count out Apple's willingness to make a CDMA iPhone however, because they originally went to Verizon, so obviously they don't care that much about simultaneous voice and data. If Verizon offers them what they want they will do it.

[ghostface147]

Anyone who believes that there isn't a stateside CDMA phone in the Apple labs is a fool. Remember, this is the same company that had been working on an Intel OS X version for several years before announcing it.