{"id":5224,"date":"2013-04-30T14:06:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prepaidreviews.com\/blog\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2023-08-10T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T20:46:15","slug":"approach-boost-mobile-iphone-rumors-with-caution-36580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepaidreviews.com\/blog\/boost-mobile\/approach-boost-mobile-iphone-rumors-with-caution-36580\/","title":{"rendered":"Approach Boost Mobile iPhone rumors with caution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[We have seen it before, so pardon me if I view it with a skeptical eye. For the past year or so, @evleaks has provided plenty of valuable information about upcoming phones, particularly for prepaid carriers. We've cited them on a number of occasions, and they tend to come through. So you can imagine people got excited when <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evleaks\/status\/329029396054810626\">@evlinks tweeted about the iPhone<\/a> coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/prepaidreviews.com\/providers\/boost-mobile\/\">Boost Mobile<\/a> in Q3. But before you start making plans to buy an iPhone from Boost, you could use a history lesson. That @evleaks tweet could just as easily have come from last year.\n<!--more-->\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/prepaidreviews.com\/blog\/boost-mobile\/could-boost-mobile-be-in-line-for-the-iphone-too-36399\/\">first rumblings of a Boost iPhone<\/a> came last June when the site Techno Buffalo cited a &#8220;trusted source&#8221; who said that Boost would get the iPhone in September &#8212; Q3, for those not familiar with the quarterly calendar breakdown. It turns out we should have listened to <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2012\/06\/01\/source-no-iphone-4s-on-boost-mobile-in-september\/\">9to5Mac&#8217;s sources<\/a>, who said that the rumor was &#8220;purely fiction.&#8221; Obviously we never got that Boost iPhone.\nOf course, exactly a day after we heard those Boost rumors, we learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/prepaidreviews.com\/providers\/virgin-mobile\/\">Virgin Mobile<\/a>, which like Boost is a subsidiary of Sprint, would <a href=\"https:\/\/prepaidreviews.com\/blog\/virgin-mobile\/virgin-mobile-now-rumored-to-carry-the-iphone-36403\/\">carry the iPhone<\/a>. So perhaps there was just a virtual game of telephone going on there, wherein Boost becomes Virgin, and Q3 becomes Q2.\nThis iPhone rumor is a bit more believable, because of a few factors. First, we know that Sprint has a contract with Apple and wants to get rid of devices. Perhaps Virgin represented an experiment of sorts, and perhaps that experiment was deemed a success. Moreover, there&#8217;s a good chance that Apple will announce its next-gen iPhone in Q3, meaning carriers like Sprint will have to start getting rid of older units. Using Boost to distribute iPhone 4, 4S, and 5 models will allow the main Sprint brand to focus on the 5S, or whatever new model Apple announces.\nSo yes, approach this rumor with extra caution, since we&#8217;ve heard it before. But it does seem believable. In fact, given the way things unfolded last year, perhaps we&#8217;ll see the iPhone at Boost <em>before<\/em> Q3.\nBut don&#8217;t get your hopes up.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boost-mobile"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Approach Boost Mobile iPhone rumors with caution | Prepaid Reviews Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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