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Waaaay back at CES in January, Sprint and RIM announced that they are cooking up to version Playbook BlackBerry, who played with Sprint's 4 G network, and then ... No problem. Months went by with no mention of either one of the participating companies.
Unfortunately it looks like the Playbook Sprint 4 G will be buried before he even was born. Blame the lack of customer demand "(read: anyone who wants to sign now, probably already has an iPad or Xoom) Sprint killed off plans to start the device.
It was not clear whether or not the RIM will sell Sprint version of the tablet itself, although it seems pretty unlikely. CDMA phones for sale without the support of the carrier is hard enough, but as a half-baked object ultra niche-oriented business Tablet? Blyeck.
As the Wall Street Journal said this ... not good news for RIM. Sprint is one of the main carrier, who was willing to back Playbook — neither AT&T or Verizon would like to have something to do with it. While the Sprint still offers only WiFi tablet, it doesn't seem like they are planning to stick a Playbook for much longer. Nail, meet the coffin.
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