In a brief and nearly fruitless interview with Bloomberg News, Sprint had very little in the way of hope to offer its subscribership that they would be able to get a sweet new handset anytime soon. For my personal accounts, I’m a Sprint subscriber, and I’m amazed at how willingly they seem to sit on their thumbs when they have such a large subscriber base to cater to. If I were Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint and star of the neo noir Sprint commercials, I would be pushing a lot harder to retain subscribers.

Then again, Sprint is just about on board with the Palm Treo Pro, the WinMo only device. Around the corner at CES 2009 in Las Vegas, Palm is going to reveal what will likely be a new OS and a new handset ($5 says its an iClone). Its altogether possible that Sprint has ended up waiting for Palm to save themselves with whatever hot-ness comes out of the Palm enclave and hoping that it will be wicked enough to spin up some migrations.

Anecdotally, I’ve been hearing from some of mty Apple iPhone friends that they are seriously aiming to jump ship because Apple’s not addressing certain shotcomings of the iPhone. What handset are they looking to jump to? The RIM Blackberry Bold. Wow.

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