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Sprint hints the release of iphone 5 in early October with no vacations for the workers

By Vivek Paliwal


Learning the iphone 5 launch date, or at the least its range, is often as easy as checking with Apple's looser-lipped associates: Sprint has said to its workers that they can't have holiday days in early October. The newest carrier to sign up the iphone family, though not yet on an official level, is about to go through the greatest retail release day in the company's life with the coming of the iphone 5. As such, employees have been informed that they must be present in early October.

But this doesn't guarantee the launch date for the iphone 5 is within that time-frame, it's a clear sign that new partner Sprint thinks it's going to be. Sprint has long been on the outside of the iphone marketplace looking in, as AT&T had the product from the start and Verizon has been touting it since earlier this year. It's normal for AT&T to inform employees that they can't take time off at the time of brand new iphone launch windows.

While that news hasn't yet surfaced one way or the other, the Sprint reports is enlightening about two fronts: first, it's the best indication yet that a Sprint iphone 5 is really developing (although other proof has hinted at this), and it in addition points towards the iphone 5 happening in a month or slightly less. The release will be a big deal not to only Sprint, since Verizon will be also getting its feet wet in a new way.

Verizon's first apple iphone exposure came with a very late iphone 4 in March, after AT&T had also been selling the device for eight months. As such, there wasn't a huge launch day, as Verizon clients have largely talked the idea that they prefer to wait for the Verizon iphone 5. That leaves Verizon and Sprint both confronting their first-ever true iphone release date bonanza, with clients lining up at the carriers' shops several hours before the iphone 5 goes on sale and fighting over whatever supply is available. By insisting all of its employees be on board during what it believes is the launch window, the company is taking no chance.

Sprint has additionally been lining up its iphone 5 bets in other ways. Sub-contractors for the carrier have been setting up signal boosters around Apple company shops to make sure that the Sprint iphone 5 sales experience gets off for the right foot. Recently, supplier Best Buy seemed to confirm the imminent release of a Sprint iphone 5 on its shelves, but the authenticity of this statement has since been called into question.




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