Reply With QuoteBuy the AT&T model and put it on Straight Talk? Seriously, there is no way Boost will allow the iPhone on their service. The CDMA iPhone is locked down fairly tight and I haven't even seen one on Metro with anything better than just talk & text.
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Phone Collector
I've climbed a cellphone tower
Buy the AT&T model and put it on Straight Talk? Seriously, there is no way Boost will allow the iPhone on their service. The CDMA iPhone is locked down fairly tight and I haven't even seen one on Metro with anything better than just talk & text.
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officially. It is left for an exercise for the reader to find other answers.Originally Posted by gotanmp3
Putting the phone you want on the service you pay for is not a crime. No one has ever been convicted of it!
No one has ever been convicted of talking about it either!
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I've climbed a cellphone tower
Supposedly the Chinese have figured out the CDMA iPhone 4, but the solution is either being kept on very close lockdown or... who knows how it is with these things. Bad ESN iPhone 4s are still relatively cheap on eBay, and that's usually a sign that it's not very well known how to fully flash that model of phone.
Why yes, that is a bag phone
It probably wouldn't be worth putting an iPhone 4S on boost anyways even if you can figure it out. You either have to sign a contract with Sprint, then pay the high ETF or from a third party source such as eBay that will be highly inflated due to rarity. Also you wont be able to buy an unlocked off contract 4S for the time being but once they start offering it I heard it will probably retail somewhere around $1,000-1,200. By that time you might as well just stick with a regular Sprint plan.
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The only positive I could possibly ascertain from this is maybe is will open the door for boost to aquire more of sprints low to mid range smart phones. Of coarse their could be a negative affect too with all of the data use from new subs.
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I am going to guarantee that Sprint and Apple will have legal binding agreements that the Sprint iPhone can't be used on any of their MVNOs...
I've climbed a cellphone tower
I went to the local Sprint store to look at the Samsung Galaxy S II, today. A Sprint salesman made it a point to mention that they're getting the iPhone soon. I'm guessing they've been told to start pushing them really hard.
I'm really not happy about the sales terms that Sprint supposedly agreed to with Apple in order to sell the iPhone. While I agree Sprint needs the iPhone to be on level footing with its competitors, if Sprint does sell a bunch of them, the network speeds are going to become awful-er. The more likely outcome though, is that Sprint will be left with a surplus of iPhones sitting on store shelves and will continue to bleed cash, paying for them.
Sprint got the RAZR at roughly the end of its rabid popularity, too.
Banned
That's because the RAZR was a Cingular exclusive with rights for what, 3 years? Popularity ended after a little over a year.
Phone Collector
Sprint getting the iphone was stupid. The only people who are going to be enticed by the iphone on Sprint are brand new customers with no plan at all or people who somehow got shafted out of grandfathered unlimited data on one of the other big carriers. And iphone purchases are down below Android now and will probably continue to fall as more people try Android are realize "hey, I like to be able to make my phone look how I want instead of what Apple wants me to like". Not to mention buyers like variety such as keyboards, big screens, multi core processors etc... Apple is falling into the same trap it fell into before Steve Jobs showed up, it is too proprietary, locked down and only appeals to a small group of elitist enthusiasts.
As for coming to boost... yeah good luck on that. I have heard of ppl successfully cloning the Vzw version onto other CDMA carriers but don't have any examples.
Phone Collector
i agree but that 'small' group of elitist enthusiasts isnt so small in the academic arena.
contagious, peer pressure. delusional.
if i had $1 for everytime someone looked at my SG2 then showed off their apple an said something to the effect that "androids are the poor man's iPhone'
heck, i would be rich by now but anyways, aside from that sad pop culture wanna be thingy, and reasons why NOT to want the iPhone, back to the topic, for those who do (some of us like having one as a spare? toy?? for research.. etc) its of course not about 'cloning' an iphone anymore cuz as of next week Sprint will have the iphone:
so it boils down to whether a Boost rep will ever manage to somehow put a Sprint iPhone on the Boost system, no??
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It won't be possible. The reason is the same as all of Sprint's new phones... plan codes.
It isn't like you can just magically convince them to let you activate one. The ESN must be able to be activated on a plan, and all of Boost's plan codes do not match any of Sprint's new codes.
This is why when one tries to activate an Evo or any other Sprint Android or newer Blackberry phone, the system doesn't have a plan code to select.
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Phone Expert
I hope Boost gets the iPhone
Banned
Well, keep hoping. SPC/Sprint would prevent Boost from applying for it because it would remove the customers and contracts from Sprint postpaid.
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Last edited by martin_j001; 02-05-2012 at 10:43 AM.
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