Sprint to announce ‘another industry first’ on February 7th

By on Jan 12, 2011 at 1:09 PM
mobile January 12, 2011

Sprint just sent out invitations to a press event that will be held early next month in New York City. It is unclear what will be announced at the event, which will take place on February 7th — just one week ahead of the annual Mobile World Congress convention in Barcelona. Sprint’s invitation states that CEO Dan Hesse will be on hand to introduce what Sprint is calling “yet another industry first.” Adding to the mystery is the fact that illusionist David Blaine will be there to “show you that the impossible is possible.” Ok Sprint, we’re intrigued.

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  • Degenerate

    A wimax 4g/4gLte..network

    • Youngblood752004

      thats what i think but im going to add to it and say they found a way to add PTT to LTE and Wimax together making the impossible possible

  • Jmatulonis

    Heardmy company is going to be getting android phones with push to talk next month maybe this is it.

    • Guest

      Sprint already has that…its called the Motorola i1

  • http://www.sparksunwired.com SparksUnwired

    What’s up their sleeve – an arm and that’s about it

  • Jennie Zebru

    They are going to offer cheaper plans (not much cheaper) and free tethering w/Android 2.2 and higher.

  • Evar

    pretty sure it is 4G tablet. what else.

  • http://twitter.com/Cpuking2009 John debusk

    It’s the sprint iPhone! LMAO! The impossible has happened!

    • Anonymous

      That would not be an industry first.

  • http://twitter.com/ahow628 Andy Howard

    How about a Sprint iPad 2?

  • Anonymous

    So is Sprint turning into Apple and snubbing CES.

    • Anonymous

      Sprint is always quiet at CES. They usually come out at CTIA.

  • http://twitter.com/aheavymark heavymark

    Everyone is trying to mimic Apple’s invite only success. But compare an Apple invite with the above Microsoft Word styled template with outdated drop shadows and visual clutter.

    • Anonymous

      And also consider that when Apple holds an event, they’re ready to demo the product and are usually within days of releasing it. Other companies do these kinds of events generally to announce vaporware. That’s why CES doesn’t draw half the attention an Apple event does. A significant number of high profile demos at CES never even make it to the store shelves.

  • Bryan

    Interesting, a master of misdirection and illusion headlining Sprint’s announcement. Can the announcement be that underwhelming that they need to promote a “celebrity” appearance?

  • fr3d0

    hope it is a bad ass phone… i have an upgrade waiting…

  • CA

    My bet is on a swarm of new HP phones!

  • Anonymous

    I’ve verified it. Sprint is going to announce an Android phone that doesn’t suck.

    Believe the impossible, folks.

    • Youngblood752004

      how did the Evo suck when it sold 3 million units please tell me?

  • Mlief

    For sure this is some type of contract/plan announcement – the term “industry first” implies that rather than announcing some new phone or tablet given we just got through CES with the vast array of products there. No way it’s a hardware announcement with a teaser like that.

    The key clue to focus on is the usage of David Blaine – they didn’t plan this up and waste time/money on getting him for nothing. If I had to really get speculative, I’d guess that they might announce the ability for voice/data simultaneously on their network using all this new multimode technology.

  • Cequal

    Palm tablet and handets

  • Amow24

    I really hope it is not tablet related. Who really cares about tablets, especially tied to service providers? If you really want one, just get a wifi enabled one and tether it to whatever phone you’re already paying for data through.

    Hopefully Sprint will now allow other carrier phones to be used on their network. Sprint’s phones are terrible (Evo excluded) and Verizon has a boatload of dual core Androids coming out I’d love to get my hands on for $70/mo, and without the “Evo tax.”

  • GUEST

    I am going to guess its a tablet and a phone that you can move a “chip” back and forth. whichever one has the chip can make and receive voice calls… NOT a SIM chip but something new

  • Guesticle

    “Irresistible culinary creations” aren’t all the versions android named after foods? The wording in that part of the invite seems suspicious. I know its early for anyone to announce it but maybe they’re announcing a phone running off of 2.4 (ice cream)?

  • A99design-max

    Prepaid 4g smartphone

  • Anonymous

    Multi-mode towers baby! Plus twice the spectrum of verizons with Sprints first LTE!!

  • http://twitter.com/BeyondtheTech BeyondtheTech

    Sprint iPad 2.

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