The BlackBerry PlayBook, perhaps the first great 7-inch tablet, has found an ” exclusive” home with Sprint. It’ll be available this summer and the Sprint PlayBook will come complete with that 4G (WiMAX). Pricing details are unknown at this point but here’s what the PlayBook’s OS seems like to keep yourself excited.
New 4G Tablet to Deliver Unmatched Power and Web Performance – Available Exclusively from Sprint this Summer
January 6, 2011 – CES 2011, Las Vegas, NV – Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) and Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced plans to launch a new BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet model featuring connectivity to the blazingly fast Sprint 4G network. The BlackBerry 4G PlayBook™ stands out as the first BlackBerry PlayBook model to include wide area wireless connectivity, featuring Sprint 4G to offer customers download hastens to 10 times faster than 3G1. This new 4G model is predicted to be available from Sprint within the summer.
The BlackBerry 4G PlayBook is knowledgeable-grade tablet that’s set to redefine the chances of mobile computing, giving users an ultra-portable design with industry leading performance, uncompromised web browsing, true multitasking and HD multimedia, in addition as advanced security measures and out-of-the-box enterprise support. Together, the BlackBerry 4G PlayBook and the Sprint 4G network will provide a high performance platform with a view to enable a mobile services revolution for both application developers and customers.
” RIM believes a major component to the tablet market will need a higher performing, multitasking, professional-grade tablet and this is why we chose to design the BlackBerry PlayBook for premium performance with a robust dual-core processor and multitasking OS. In conjunction with Sprint, we are now building on that performance advantage with 4G and providing an unparalleled mobile experience for users,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO at Research In Motion.
” We are excited to bring this powerful new product to our business customers and consumers who depend upon Sprint for industry-leading devices in addition as the most efficient valuable values in wireless,” said Steve Elfman, president of network operations and wholesale for Sprint. ” This tablet is a smart example of Sprint’s strong partnership with RIM in continuing to bring customers powerful devices to reinforce their mobility. We are confident the BlackBerry 4G Playbook from Sprint might be probably the most anticipated tablets in 2011.”
In addition to Wi-Fi® support, the BlackBerry 4G PlayBook incorporates a 1 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM and the recent BlackBerry® Tablet OS. The ultra portable, ultra thin tablet will offer an uncompromised, high-fidelity web experience with support for Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1, Adobe® Mobile AIR® and HTML-5 enabling customers to enjoy the entire sites, games, media and richness of the total Internet, delivered at 4G speeds. Additional details and pricing shall be released in the direction of launch.
Sprint 4G is currently available in 71 markets2 across the country, including Atlanta, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, L. a. and The Big Apple City. Sprint first launched 4G in Baltimore in September 2008 and continues to build it’s 4G service for consumers and business users across the country. For additional info, visit www.sprint.com/4G.
For additional info concerning the BlackBerry 4G PlayBook, visit www.blackberry.com/playbook or www.sprint.com/4Gplaybook.
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