Sprint offers PlayBook for $499
Sprint now offers the 16GB Wi-Fi-only BlackBerry PlayBook for $499. The news comes after a Sprint employee leaked the news last week in a blog post.
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Sprint announced last January at CES that it would carry the PlayBook by the summer, but until last week the carrier didn't offer any details. But then on Thursday, Gerald Evans, a Sprint public-sector market director for the Midwest region, said on his personal blog that the carrier would offer the the PlayBook on Sunday, June 5. The post has since been removed, but the headline "BlackBerry Playbook with Wi-Fi available Sunday" still appears in the Twitter feed on the right side of the blog.
According to TheBerryFix.com, Evans said the PlayBook will go on sale in "all Sprint direct ship sales channels, including Sprint Stores, Business Sales, www.sprint.com and Telesales (1-800-SPRINT1)." TheBerryFix.com also said that Evans promised that Sprint will offer BlackBerry Bridge and that the carrier will offer a 4G PlayBook later this year.