A report from Apple Insider claims that Apple is “quietly denying” employee vacation requests during the second week of October. Hmm now where have we seen this before? Considering Sprint has a laundry list of mid-level devices releasing on October 2nd, we’re banking on about a two week sales gap to let these handsets out of the starting gates. This theory places the fruit phone’s release somewhere around October 14th – 16th. There’s also talk of a possible October 4th media event that is said to bring an official announcement from Apple. This all puts the spotlight on a mid-October release, but again this is all speculation until a new handset emerges from Cupertino. Until then we’ll have to file a Sprint iPhone under the vaporware column.

via: Apple Insider