BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to feature Sprint 4G

RIM (Research In Motion) and Sprint have announced plans to launch a new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet model featuring connectivity to the blazingly fast Sprint 4G network. The BlackBerry 4G PlayBook will be the first BlackBerry PlayBook model to include wide area wireless connectivity, featuring Sprint 4G to give customers download speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G. This new 4G model is expected to be available from Sprint in the summer.

For those of you who are new to the BlackBerry PlayBook, it’s a tablet coming with a 1 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB RAM, new BlackBerry Tablet OS, Wi-Fi, support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, HTML-5, and more.