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Sprint’s iPhone 5 & Anti-iPad E-mail That Disproves the iPad 3

Sprint’s iPhone 5 & Anti-iPad E-mail That Disproves the iPad 3

As the rumors that the iPhone 5 is coming to Sprint begin to crystalize, rumors still persist that an updated iPad 3 is set to be co-released with the iPhone 5 as well. Read how Sprint’s recent email promo for the HTC Evo View disproves this iPad 3 rumor.

Sprint has been the iPhone 5 rumor mill’s darling.

Over the past year or so, the U.S.’s third-largest mobile carrier has let off just enough revealing information to slowly yet steadily establish that Apple would be bringing them on board to sell the iPhone 5. From the humble beginnings of Sprint’s CEO saying of the iPhone: “We’d love to have it,” to anecdotal reports about a month ago confirming that Sprint reps were leaking confirmations of a Sprint iPhone 5, to the freshest reports that Sprint management is specifically instructing its reps not to mention the iPhone 5, all point to the fact that Sprint will indeed join the iPhone ranks this month or next.

If you haven’t read our article, “The iPhone 5 Cometh To Sprint,” be sure to do so. It links to all of our reports about Sprint and iPhone 5 since the beginning of the iPhone 5 hype cycle.

Obviously, Sprint is seeking to curb any further leaks about its iPhone 5 in an effort to preserve the “wow” factor of their partnership being announced by Apple in September when the next iPhone is due to be announced. This story is being widely reported in the news — with top news sources like WSJ.com and even Fox News disseminating it.

What hasn’t been reported, however, is that Sprint also  recently released a promotional e-mail to its subscribers that all but proves that the iPad 3 — which is still being rumored to be co-released with the iPhone 5 — is going to be a no-show in 2011.

Two weeks ago, Sprint sent out the above-posted email promotion to its subscribers for the new HTC Evo View that completely trashes the iPad. With a headline that reads, “The iPad Has Been Officially Written Off,” the promotion goes on to espouse the benefits of Evo View’s handy stylus, and how this novel, new feature (didn’t my old Palm have a stylus?) is putting the iPad to shame.

You can read a further review of the HTC Evo View and how it stacks up against the iPad on our sister site, the iPad 2 News Ticker.

At face value, there’s nothing particularly revealing about Sprint’s promotional e-mail, as carriers who are not partnered with Apple products have marketed and promoted against the iPhone and the iPad in the past before. However, logic would dictate that, if indeed Sprint is getting the iPhone 5 in September/October, so too would they also be picking up the iPad 3, just as Verizon did with the iPad 2 after partnering with Apple in early 2011 for the iPhone 4.

If the iPad 3 was due out imminently along with the iPhone 5, Sprint would be adding both of them to their arsenal — not just the iPhone 5. And if this was the case, Sprint would not be maligning the iPad to its subscribers just a month or so before the release of the iPad 3. Their subscribers, after all, are the ones that would be first in line to pick up a new Sprint version of the iPad 3.

On the contrary — the fact that Sprint is comfortable with competing against the iPad 3 at this juncture suggests that there is no reason to believe that Apple will diverge from a Spring of 2012 release of the iPad 3, which will ostensibly feature the A6 chip. They might even delay it just long enough to debut at the 2012 WWDC, along with iOS 6. But one thing seems clear to me at this point: the next iPhone  most likely will not have to compete for attention along with the next iPad.

[Thanks: http://iphone5newsblog.com]

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