No New High End Phones

[tsak6789]

You guys do this every year.....Everyone poo-poo'd Sprint this time last year and by September it was a banner year for devices on Sprint....

Verizon - ATT releases their Top Ends between Christmas and April....Sprint releases May-October (Beginning with CTIA) these carriers have always done it this way..Nothing new...When Sprint is having its releasing season everyone at Verizon and ATT will be crying about how everything's going to Sprint.

Not to mention Sprint has confirmed they aren't releasing anymore Wimax phones (Smart) and everything from here on out will be LTE, but you need the network first and that will be in June-July......

I'm due in May. I would be happy if they could announce something "coming soon".
Preferrably a Nexus with ICS.

 

[ab304945]

You guys do this every year.....Everyone poo-poo'd Sprint this time last year and by September it was a banner year for devices on Sprint....

Verizon - ATT releases their Top Ends between Christmas and April....Sprint releases May-October (Beginning with CTIA) these carriers have always done it this way..Nothing new...When Sprint is having its releasing season everyone at Verizon and ATT will be crying about how everything's going to Sprint.

Not to mention Sprint has confirmed they aren't releasing anymore Wimax phones (Smart) and everything from here on out will be LTE, but you need the network first and that will be in June-July......

So true. I was about to post the same.

Just sux i have to wait till October, (when i can upgrade). but alot of good phones should be out by then and i will have a good selection to choose from.

 

[crzycrkr]

Yeah, exactly what the last few have said. Come the summer all the Verizon customers will be complaining that Sprint has all the best new phones and Verizon has nothing. Same thing that's happened the last two years. When will people learn?

 

[SERO wireless]

Sprint has announced there will be 15 new LTE devices in 2012. You can figure out most of what's coming without having to call your psychic friend.

Formally announced (3):
LG Viper
Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Sierra Wireless Tri-Network Hotspot

Known, unannounced devices (2):
Samsung SPH-L710 (Samsung Galaxy S2 HD LTE)
HTC Jewel

Rumored, likely devices (6):
Samsung Galaxy Note
Samsung Galaxy S3
iPhone 5
Blackberry Curve
Blackberry Bold
Blackberry Torch

Pick any 4:
Tablets - Xoom 2 Media Edition, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, Blackberry Playbook LTE
LTE hotspot - It seems unlikely that Sprint would have only one.
Phones - Motorola and HTC have both confirmed their support for Sprint's LTE network but only the HTC Jewel has been discovered so far.

The only real mysteries are:
1. Will Sprint dump Blackberry? RIM has a fast-shrinking marketshare, but there are still quite a few loyal Blackberry customers at Sprint and Sprint has carried Blackberry devices for years.
2. There will be an iPhone 5 and Sprint will have it, but will it be LTE?
3. With four unknown devices, no tablets and only one hotspot named there doesn't appear to be much room for phones from HTC and Motorola. That could change though (see item #1).

 

[Xiphias]

Sprint has announced there will be 15 new LTE devices in 2012. You can figure out most of what's coming without having to call your psychic friend.

This is the first year I've whined about this, actually.
All those predictions are well and good (I would love to get a galaxy S3 if/when that ever comes out) but I would rather find out sooner than later - all these rumored devices are coming out months after my contract ends. If my contract ends and those devices are still just rumors, I'm not sticking around.

 

[crzycrkr]

This is the first year I've whined about this, actually.
All those predictions are well and good (I would love to get a galaxy S3 if/when that ever comes out) but I would rather find out sooner than later - all these rumored devices are coming out months after my contract ends. If my contract ends and those devices are still just rumors, I'm not sticking around.

What rumored devices for Verizon are announced? That's just how it works. There is an equivalent phone on Sprint for just about every phone on Verizon except for the GN(coming), and a slider

 

[tsak6789]

And where are these rumors coming from? Sprint has told me they don't know of any new Android phones coming out soon. It's not that I want to dump Sprint but my Evo is dying, And I'm really digging the Nexus from Verizon.

 

[crzycrkr]

And where are these rumors coming from? Sprint has told me they don't know of any new Android phones coming out soon. It's not that I want to dump Sprint but my Evo is dying, And I'm really digging the Nexus from Verizon.

Of course the people you talk to don't know. They're just workers. You have to watch the websites. The GN will be on Sprint soon, and when we hit the summer they will have a bunch of new releases, just like every other year. Then we get to read the same type of threads in the Verizon boards, lol

 

[tsak6789]

You have to watch the websites. l

Can you throw me a link? I've checked this web site, Droid life, and Android police. I haven't read anything about upcoming phones for Sprint.

 

[crzycrkr]

Can you throw me a link? I've checked this web site, Droid life, and Android police. I haven't read anything about upcoming phones for Sprint.

There really haven't been any yet, but my point is there aren't really any rumored for Verizon either. The GN is coning soon, and they've announced there will be x amount of LTE phones this year. You will start seeing more very soon. This is common and very typical.

 

[SERO wireless]

And where are these rumors coming from?

You really need to get out more. The rumors, by device, with links:

Samsung Galaxy Note - Cnet, Phonedog, Androidandme, TheVerge, this forum.
Samsung Galaxy S3 - s4gru.com, motoringcrunch,
iPhone 5 - bgr, Wall Street Journal, pcmag, Fox News, endagadget.
Blackberry devices - Techgod, crackberry.

My take:

Samsung - Sprint did really well with the first two Samsung Galaxy phones and the Samsung Galaxy S2 was one of their flagship Android phones. It doesn't seem likely that they would abandon the line with such a successful history.

Apple - Sprint has committed to spending $20 billion on iPhones. To put that in perspective the high estimates for the cost of their LTE network upgrade are less than half that. In Q4, 40% of the phones Sprint sold were iPhones. It seems unlikely that Apple wouldn't reward Sprint for their commitment or that Sprint would abandon the iPhone.

Blackberry - This is the least likely because Blackberry is losing marketshare rapidly, Sprint has already cancelled their order for the Playbook 2.0, and Sprint's new target market is college students. RIM may not even survive 2012. Still, there are a lot of people who MUST have a Blackberry for one reason or another and Sprint has stocked Blackberry devices for a long time. A lot of Motorola's new phones seem to be designed to, "convert" Blackberry owners with a similar, "candybar with a keyboard" form factor and an, "Android for business" configuration. Sprint will probably cut back on Blackberry to make more room for Motorola but not drop Blackberry completely.

 

[Xiphias]

You really need to get out more. The rumors, by device, with links:

Samsung Galaxy S3 - s4gru.com, motoringcrunch,

Except we already know that Samsung isn't announcing the S3 at MWC, and that first rumor makes no mention of Sprint. Sure, the S3 probably be on Sprint when it comes out, but there's not even a source for the Q2 rumor.

We don't really know anything more than the people who are "just workers" - a bunch of ideas extrapolated from a tweet from a Russian blogger don't really amount to much.

 

[crzycrkr]

You really need to get out more. The rumors, by device, with links:

Samsung Galaxy Note - Cnet, Phonedog, Androidandme, TheVerge, this forum.
Samsung Galaxy S3 - s4gru.com, motoringcrunch,
iPhone 5 - bgr, Wall Street Journal, pcmag, Fox News, endagadget.
Blackberry devices - Techgod, crackberry.

My take:

Samsung - Sprint did really well with the first two Samsung Galaxy phones and the Samsung Galaxy S2 was one of their flagship Android phones. It doesn't seem likely that they would abandon the line with such a successful history.

Apple - Sprint has committed to spending $20 billion on iPhones. To put that in perspective the high estimates for the cost of their LTE network upgrade are less than half that. In Q4, 40% of the phones Sprint sold were iPhones. It seems unlikely that Apple wouldn't reward Sprint for their commitment or that Sprint would abandon the iPhone.

Blackberry - This is the least likely because Blackberry is losing marketshare rapidly, Sprint has already cancelled their order for the Playbook 2.0, and Sprint's new target market is college students. RIM may not even survive 2012. Still, there are a lot of people who MUST have a Blackberry for one reason or another and Sprint has stocked Blackberry devices for a long time. A lot of Motorola's new phones seem to be designed to, "convert" Blackberry owners with a similar, "candybar with a keyboard" form factor and an, "Android for business" configuration. Sprint will probably cut back on Blackberry to make more room for Motorola but not drop Blackberry completely.

Thanks, I was working and couldn't Search down links. And, as i said, Sprint has an equivalent handset to most things on Verizon, and the SGSII is still arguably the best out there.

 

[SERO wireless]

Except we already know that Samsung isn't announcing the S3 at MWC...

Plans change. Samsung did have an event scheduled at MWC, but they mysteriously cancelled it. That doesn't mean that the rest of the rumor is any less true.

..that first rumor makes no mention of Sprint.

Look carefully at the site. Sprint 4G Rollout Updates, s4gru.com, is all Sprint, all the time. It would be redundant.

Sure, the S3 probably be on Sprint when it comes out, but there's not even a source for the Q2 rumor.

ru?mor noun \ˈr?-mər\
1: talk or opinion widely disseminated with no discernible source.

We don't really know anything more than the people who are "just workers"

All the carriers go to great lengths to keep a lid on their new devices until they're ready to announce them. Even with information limited to need to know stakeholders (manufacturers, vendors, developers, retailers, advertisers, etc.) most new phones see the light of day before their time. If they gave this information to tens of thousands of folks earning near minimum wage there would be no surprises at all. I would argue that the dude in the yellow polo shirt is more concerned with meeting quotas and earning spiffs than knowing what's coming soon. It's easier for them to sell you something in stock than to tell you about a better phone coming out next month and hope that you come back to buy it from them.

You seem to expect a courier to hand-deliver an engraved brass plaque mounted on an oak frame showing the exact rollout schedule with each device spelled out with the exact date and time it will be released with a written guarantee that the information is complete and correct. Not going to happen. Good luck with AT&T!

 

[Triple Threat]

You seem to expect a courier to hand-deliver an engraved brass plaque mounted on an oak frame showing the exact rollout schedule with each device spelled out with the exact date and time it will be released with a written guarantee that the information is complete and correct. Not going to happen. Good luck with AT&T!

And with that you just made my day! lol

 

[Xiphias]

You seem to expect a courier to hand-deliver an engraved brass plaque mounted on an oak frame showing the exact rollout schedule with each device spelled out with the exact date and time it will be released with a written guarantee that the information is complete and correct. Not going to happen. Good luck with AT&T!

All I want is something more substantial than a rumor. I don't think that's very unreasonable!

Do you work for Sprint?

 

[crzycrkr]

All I want is something more substantial than a rumor. I don't think that's very unreasonable!

Do you work for Sprint?

And you will...when they announce new phones. Just like every other company. No one has announced anything new and groundbreaking yet. Every carriers has pretty equal high end phones.

 

[pretext]

Found this today about new a new HTC phone rumored to be headed to Sprint.

HTC Jewel rumored to be headed to Sprint with LTE connectivity | PhoneDog

 

[SERO wireless]

Found this today about new a new HTC phone rumored to be headed to Sprint.

Congratulations! You, "found" something I posted in this very thread 29 hours earlier.

 

[tsak6789]

Well It looks like Sprint is giving away the Nexus in April, so there is hope on the horizon!