A veritable gaggle of AT&T rumors (hint: red iPhone?)

This here supposed AT&T inventory sheet that fell into our laps today reads like an indecisive power user's wish list -- the Prada's great, the Z9's okay if you're into that sort of thing, and the K850a finally moves AT&T into high-end camera territory. But what's this, a red iPhone? Seriously? Catch up on all the haps over at Engadget Mobile!

Read - "Deep red" iPhone
Read - Sony Ericsson Z750a, K850a
Read - LG Prada, Samsung BlackJack II, Motorola Z9

[Gian Constantine @ Oct 12th 2007 6:03PM]

Product (Red) I'm sure.

Gian

[Typhoid Mary @ Oct 12th 2007 6:03PM]

Perhaps it's just me but I really don't care about a new colored iPhone/iPod/iTouch/Zune/whatever. What's the big deal? Same stuff, different color. Whoopee!?

[bob @ Oct 12th 2007 6:06PM]

Yeah, but the iphone is a lot about style and making a statement. I'm with you in that I really only care about function, but we're in the minority.

[Nex @ Oct 12th 2007 6:24PM]

yep thats right.. it has to be all about style.. not even a little bit about functionality..

wow... have to hack it to get the functionality you want, but you can get it in any stylish form you want

[Vinn @ Oct 12th 2007 6:03PM]

Anything is possible.

[waiownsyou @ Oct 12th 2007 6:04PM]

$5 says it's just the iPhone with a "(red)" tag somewhere on the phone.

[Kevin @ Oct 12th 2007 6:05PM]

Why is there a 4GB red iPhone? 4GB? This seems outdated.

[paul Cromwell @ Oct 12th 2007 6:14PM]

Did'nt apple stop the 4 gb iphones

[adgeman @ Oct 12th 2007 6:17PM]

Seems odd there's a listing for the 4gb which they all but killed off.

[randy @ Oct 12th 2007 6:22PM]

A red iphone will make the screen look much smaller, since 1/4 of the front is actually plastic. It would just look odd, I think this is fake.

[fowler @ Oct 12th 2007 6:31PM]

ugh, if AT&T gets the K850, i'm going to really be bummed.

[Chris @ Oct 12th 2007 6:41PM]

that form seems to be changeable, some jokester at att could have added it, screen shot, then deleted it.

[???????????? @ Oct 12th 2007 10:09PM]

Not the case. I looked it up upon reading this article and it was there.

[derX @ Oct 13th 2007 8:11PM]

Oh, yes, a post from "????????????????" inspires confidence.

[Brien @ Oct 12th 2007 6:43PM]

If it's red it's likely only the chrome/aluminum backing that'd get the treatment.

[Perry Ng @ Oct 12th 2007 6:52PM]

red would be appropriate for since it's the same color as my brick

[Matthew Hilario @ Oct 12th 2007 7:02PM]

red iphone will do as bad as the crimson nintendo ds.

[gjp303 @ Oct 12th 2007 7:06PM]

I must be the only one without an iPhone.

[Danny @ Oct 12th 2007 7:27PM]

Nope, I still don't have one either, but I want one SO BADLY.

[Derry Quinn @ Oct 12th 2007 8:41PM]

I don't have one and don't want one. Am I in the minority here. No HSDPA, No Dice Apple, soory!

[Anthony @ Oct 12th 2007 7:17PM]

iphone aside- I'm more interested in the k850. That's a nice looking phone & I wouldn't mind testing it out (shutter lag has to be better than the N95).

[holycow @ Oct 12th 2007 7:23PM]

haha i love how they consider iPHONE as a seperate network.. (i.e. not GSM)

[Anthony Prieto @ Oct 12th 2007 7:59PM]

Does anyone realize that the list includes a RIM CURVE RED.
So I doubt the iPhone with ever become RED.

[Will @ Oct 12th 2007 9:07PM]

we are getting a red curve, in the next week or so

[Giovanni-sama @ Oct 12th 2007 8:00PM]

Dont have the iPhone either. Tilt's better :)

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Oct 12th 2007 8:13PM]

I really hope the iphone comes to sprint as a CDMA phone after 2012

[Will @ Oct 12th 2007 9:07PM]

just hope sprint is still around in 2012...

[tim r @ Oct 12th 2007 8:21PM]

I think in this case RED is probably a att code or acronym for something most likely REturned or Damaged...Plus Apple would not create a low end red product.(4G)

[dave @ Oct 12th 2007 9:13PM]

deep red? idk guys. and i find it funny that IPHONE is its own technology type (as opposed to EDGE, UMTS, DATA, look at that column)

honestly, i think a good plan for product(red) would be a black iPhone (since apple is part of RED, im not saying iPhones are good) with RED-themed menus, and maybe a red racing stripe down the middle on the back of the phone. a completely red casing is overkill, and probably half the reason that product(red) RAZRs didnt sell any better than regular colored RAZRs.


i know if moto did a RAZR2 V9m in black with a red stripe for product(red), i'd scoop it up in a heartbeat. only if it was on sprint and had music multitasking, though.

[dave @ Oct 12th 2007 9:15PM]

and dont worry about sprint's future....i know for a fact they're the best provider technology-wise, and i heard through the grapevine that they have the fastest growing amount of subscribers out of the big 4

[tigerandbelle @ Oct 12th 2007 9:53PM]

I hope that was a joke...or you might want to check your source. Wall Street analysts predict Sprint is bleeding customer left and right to both AT&T & Verizon and I quote:

"Also Wednesday, UBS predicted AT&T will gain 1.7 million net customers in the third quarter, compared with its prior estimate of 1.6 million. The brokerage also forecast Verizon Wireless would add 1.6 million net customers and said that Sprint Nextel Corp. the No. 3 U.S. mobile carrier, likely lost customers to both of its larger rivals in the third quarter."

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/lgs-voyager-handset-positioned-challenge/story.aspx?guid=%7B9E8A0500-78EC-4383-BF36-F0FF0D386324%7D&dist=MostReadHome

[??????????? @ Oct 12th 2007 10:06PM]

Hey guys... either this is legit or a funny prank by someone at AT&T. Those screens are leaked from the software used by AT&T stores. I looked up the Item ID myself and, sure enough, there it was. The price was set at zero like it is for all unreleased inventory, so there you go.

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Oct 12th 2007 10:23PM]

Well its true that sprint is bleeding a corporate wall street death but they could come back with a new CEO. If not I just hope a GSM provider buys it and turns them to GSM. Vodafone should expand into the states...

[jonmango @ Oct 12th 2007 11:23PM]

this is bunk. all of the sku's beginning with "R" are refurbished or insurance claim phones. also, if you look at the descriptions, "ins" means the phone is an insurance replacement. this pretty much means that there exists in at&t's inventory system, an insurance replacement sku for these phones. does this mean that a red iPhone is on the way, dunno but i'd be very surprised if this were the case

[Jason @ Oct 13th 2007 12:27AM]

sorry to ruin all the fun, but the phrase "deep red" used in the at&t inventory listing pictured above is part of a system apple uses to categorize its products for retail distribution. the word "deep" means "cancelled version", and the word "red" means "shipments halted." therefore, this inventory is just indicating that the previous versions of the iphone, likely being the ones before the recent software update, are not being sold anymore.

[Eric @ Oct 13th 2007 11:33PM]

If that's true, it means the 8GB iPhone has also been discontinued.

[Doc Zaius @ Oct 13th 2007 4:10AM]

wow...someones getting fired.

[trancer @ Oct 13th 2007 4:56AM]

awesome! i'm eying that SE k850! =)

[Matt @ Oct 13th 2007 4:38PM]

Will you get all the ifans starting a lawsuit, as they were not told that there would be a red version?

I think that this is probably fake anyway.

[eEZER @ Oct 14th 2007 6:10AM]

Finally the wait is over, thanks Steve.

[PG @ Oct 14th 2007 3:31PM]

Blackjack II is listed as WM5 phone? Yep, I'm calling bullshit.