Elizabeth Woyke -- "When Sprint Nextel introduced its first tablet in November, some were disappointed that the device was only compatible with 3G instead of the faster “4G” flavor of mobile broadband. After all, Sprint has offered 4G service since 2008 and devotes much of its marketing to linking its brand to 4G and the superior service it can provide."
"The carrier plans to remedy this in 2011 by launching a 4G tablet, said Paget Alves, Sprint’s President of Business Markets, in an interview. Alves did not specify which manufacturer would produce the tablet, but did note that Sprint will soon sell tablets with other operating systems. That could mean a Windows-based device, Research In Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook or something from HP based on Palm’s webOS operating system. Currently, Sprint has one tablet, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, which runs Google’s Android mobile platform..."