{"id":2155,"date":"2011-09-07T03:04:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T03:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2011-09-07T03:04:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T03:04:52","slug":"sprint-iphone-5-reportedly-launching-in-early-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2155","title":{"rendered":"Sprint iPhone 5 Reportedly Launching in Early October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leaked internal memo from Best Buy points toward the launch of the Sprint iPhone 5 in the first week of October. BGR reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks to a leaked document from a Best Buy source, we have discovered that Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores are anticipating taking preorders for the iPhone 5 starting in the first week of October. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a tad bit more interesting, however, is the mention (and further anticipation) that Sprint will be carrying the iPhone 5 at launch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the first time that the iPhone 5 has been rumored to appear on Sprint at launch, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still possible, although unlikely, that Best Buy are informing their stores based on the same circulating rumors.<\/p>\n<p>Further to the rumor of an October launch, <a href=\"http:\/\/thisismynext.com\/2011\/09\/04\/iphone-5-launch-best-buy-fixture-installation\/\" target=\"_blank\">ThisIsMyNext<\/a> is reporting that Best Buy is expecting a new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Apple Fixture Installation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on October 21st, which is likely to be displays and merchandising for the iPhone 5.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To be clear, this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a run-of-the-mill installation for the big box \u00e2\u20ac\u201d our tipster tells us that the request that a manager be on-hand at 6AM is out of the ordinary (they usually show up at 7AM for inventory), and that a similar arrangement was scheduled for the iPhone 4 launch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leaked internal memo from Best Buy points toward the launch of the Sprint iPhone 5 in the first week of October. BGR reports: Thanks to a leaked document from a Best Buy source, we have discovered that Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores are anticipating taking preorders for the iPhone 5 starting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}