The prospects of a T-Mobile iPhone 5 happening as part of the iPhone 5 release date took yet another odd turn this week as the carrier, about to become a subsidiary of longtime iPhone partner AT&T, retracted an earlier awkward attempt to deflect the iPhone 5 question. The general assumption is that T-Mobile will offer the iPhone in the United States eventually, as the carrier’s incorporation into AT&T will make the iPhone a natural fit. But shortly after the merger announcement, T-Mobile posted a Q&A which included “We do not offer the iPhone” as an attempt to spin customer focus toward its other current offerings rather than seeing current and potential customers slip into an iPhone holding pattern similar to the one which Verizon faced prior to the Verizon iPhone 4. But T-Mobile’s deflection was worded in such a manner as to unintentionally draw more attention to the T-Mobile iPhone 5 issue than anything else, as the notion of “we don’t offer it right now” doesn’t mean anything within the context of Apple gearing up to launch the iPhone 5 as soon as this summer.Now T-Mobile has gone and removed the word “iPhone” from its Q&A altogether (thanks to Beatweek reader Brandon for picking up on this), perhaps having realized how cagey it sounded to begin with. Now the T-Mobile iPhone 5 plot only thickens, as T-Mobile has stated that the entire merger from front end to back will take twelve months, and by that time the iPhone 5 could be most of the way through its life cycle; die hard T-Mobile fans would then be looking at the surreal notion of waiting for the iPhone 6 in 2012. But nothing says the entire AT&T-T-Mobile (please don’t ever make us type that hyphenation abomination again) has to go all the way through before the latter gets its hands on the iPhone; the only thing really keeping a T-Mobile iPhone (or for that matter a Sprint iPhone) from happening thus far has been the lack of a deal between the involved parties.
Despite the usual total lack of information from Apple, and nothing said by either Verizon or AT&T, the iPhone 5 is expected to launch on both of the nation’s largest carriers simultaneously. That release date is another story, as iPhone history shows new models to have always been released in the summer, but the February launch of the Verizon iPhone 4 has left some to expect that the iPhone 5 may arrive a bit later on both carriers. The inclusion of a T-Mobile iPhone 5, if it happens, would only serve to thicken the iPhone 5 plot, which is already bulging considering the device doesn’t yet exist and not a single spec or feature is yet known about it. Here’s more on the iPhone 5.
[beatweek.com]
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