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iPhone 5 Unveiled October 4
And T-Mobile May Not Be Getting Device

New Apple CEO Tim Cook will take the stage October 4 to unveil the new iPhone 5, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. The source (likely Apple itself) tells the paper that the device will go on sale a few weeks after it's announced. Previous leaks have suggested that while the device will undergo a number of minor aesthetic changes, it won't be a major redesign. While it is rumored to be a dual-mode CDMA/GSM device, the new iPhone likely won't support LTE due to battery/design constraints and under-deployed LTE networks.

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Sprint is expected to finally get the iPhone next month, and rumors suggest they'll be sticking to unlimited data in the hopes of setting themselves apart from AT&T and Verizon. The company's ads featuring Sprint CEO Dan Hesse use their unlimited offerings as a lure, and recent studies suggest Sprint users consume more data and get more bandwidth for their dollar as a result.

Meanwhile, T-Mobile has shot down rumors that they'll also get the device, a leaked internal document quoting T-Mobile Chief Marketing Officer Cole Brodman as saying "we are not going to get the iPhone 5 this year." It's possible T-Mobile (and perhaps Sprint) may both be getting the iPhone 4 this year, but that the iPhone 5 is a limited carrier exclusive through the rest of 2011.

The LTE version of the device likely isn't far behind, and could arrive sometime in the spring of 2012, giving AT&T a little more time to catch up to Verizon in terms of upgraded LTE markets. By the end of this year, Verizon will have 175 running LTE markets to AT&T's 15 -- making the lack of an LTE iPhone this fall a marketing gift to AT&T, who would have been pummeled by LTE deployment comparisons.

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