New Sprint iPhone 2011 Release Date

The latest rumors are becoming even clearer in regards to when we will see the new Sprint iPhone 2011 release date and the timing may be sooner than you expected!

Many consumers and tech enthusiast had been wondering, "will Sprint get the iPhone"?  The simple answer is, "yes", and that point was made quite clearly in this recent Sprint iPhone announcment (via Sprint Nextel Corp. press briefing).

However, if you still had any doubts (which by this point you shouldn't!), than this latest bit of news should put any further questions to rest.

Over the weekend, an inside source provided BGR with a leaked internal document clearly indicating that Best Buy is preparing to begin preorders for the new Sprint iPhone 5 in the first week of October.  This report would go hand in hand with the most recent leaks indicating that the actual iPhone 5 launch will occur on October 7, 2011 or October 14, 2011.  However, as these rumors typically go, their inside source claimed that, despite the leaked internal Best Buy memo, it's very possible that preorders for the new Sprint iPhone 2011 could begin as early as this week!

At first, this timing seemed to be a little suspect, but Deutsche Telekom made it very clear with their announcment this morning that the new iPhone 5 release date is imminent:

Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) will allow customers to reserve the next generation of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone as of today in anticipation of supply bottlenecks for the device, spokesman Alexander von Schmettow said by phone. The operator will hand out coupons to people who expressly request the successor model to the iPhone 4, without providing the name or release details of the device, he said.

Coming as no surprise, September is getting started off with a bang and should continue to provide some excitment surrounding the next generation iPhone!

Sprint iPhone 5 Release Date

Reports have now surfaced that Sprint will be a part of the iPhone 5 release date.  Yes, it does appear that Sprint will be launching the new 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. 3 U.S. carrier’s lineup and giving Apple Inc. another channel for selling its popular phone. The timing, however, indicates Apple’s new iPhone will hit the market later than expected and too late to contribute to sales in the company’s fiscal fourth quarter, which ends in September. Most observers had expected the device to arrive next month. Top U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless and No. 2 AT&T Inc. will begin selling the phone in mid-October as well, two of the people said. Sprint had more than 52 million subscribers at the end of the second quarter, compared with 106 million for Verizon and nearly 99 million for AT&T." - Source: Wall Street Journal

For some time now, rumors have been circulating that Apple would be releasing new iPhones across all major carriers.  It only makes sense that Apple would choose this path in consideration of the inroads Google has made with their Android operating system on the smartphone market share.

Competition is the name of the game and you can bet Apple will do whatever they can to remain competitve.  In the past, they've been able to remain competitive since the iPhone was a far superior device.  Now, there are many top Android smartphones, across all of the major carriers, that are offering similar smartphone experiences.

No doubt, Sprint customers will be happy with this announcement as were many Verizon customers who anxiously awaited the new iPhone arrival on their network!