Sprint issues mysterious, magical invite for Feb. 7

12.01.2011
The one-upmanship between carriers will continue Feb. 7, as Sprint has issued an invitation to a press event in New York City featuring magician and "yet another industry first" from Sprint.

Word of Sprint’s event at the comes just a day after to offer an the iPhone 4 on its network.  Sprint, whose event will be hosted by CEO Dan Hesse, is inviting reporters to "See what Sprint has up its sleeve."

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There’s some thinking that Sprint too could get in on the iPhone game since for the iPhone to work only on Verizon’s CDMA network. 

Though that "Chances are it WONT be an iPhone unless Sprint has some magical way to integrate 4G connectiveness without changing the iPhone hardware (that was the holdback for Verizon yesterday), it’ll be more than likely some other kind of wackiness." Others think the announcement probably is . 

Sprint made plenty of noise in the spring about making available the . Sprint last week introduced a new version of the EVO 4G called the .