Today the Sprint iPhone 5 or Sprint iPhone 4S rumor becomes a little stronger as now we hear that Apple is hiring experienced personnel to possibly deal with such a handset.
In the recent job posting listed by Apple, the company is not mentioning Sprint directly, but there’s circumstantial evidence that make the whole Sprint iPhone 5 idea very plausible. Apple is looking for a “carrier engineer” that should be based in Kansas City, MO, which happens to be the home of Sprint. And let’s not forget that previous job listings hinted at the Verizon iPhone too, and that Verizon iPhone came soon after those job listings went up.
Said carrier engineer should be “responsible for day-to-day technical interactions with the one or more carriers to track down issues reported by the carrier, assist the carrier with testing they might be conducting and working with program management, software development and test team to get products approved by the carriers.”
The same person should be experienced with GSM/GPRS, EDGE, CDMA and UMTS, so basically this carrier engineer could deal with any of the future iPhones, no matter what U.S. carrier they’d be made for.
Naturally we expect Apple to launch the iPhone with all the carriers in the USA sooner, rather than later. That’s what the company did in other markets, once exclusivity agreements faded away, and considering that Verizon and AT&T already have the phone why shouldn’t Apple make a Sprint iPhone official later this year? And while we’re at it, an official T-Mobile iPhone, since jailbroken iPhones have been running for a long time on T-Mobile’s network, would make plenty of sense no matter if AT&T ends up buying out T-Mobile or not.
