Currently, consumers in America can waltz into their nearest Sprint store and pick up a Samsung Galaxy Tab for use on the CDMA network. But it only works on EVDO, not Sprint’s speedier WiMAX network. According to Sprint President of Business Markets Paget Alves in Forbes, they’ll be rectifying that in 2011, with the launch of an unspecified 4G-capable tablet.

The big unknown is what exactly this tablet (or tablets?) will run as an operating system, a specific Alves was mum on. He did at least admit that Sprint will soon have tablets running different operating systems than the Android-powered Tab. There are a number of options, including BlackBerry’s upcoming playbook, any number of Windows-powered tablets, but oh, could it be, an HP webOS-powered PalmPad? Don’t get your hopes up, because we have no way of reading any further into Alves’ words: there are several options, of which webOS is only one. Then again, we’d like to think that HP is going to go all Samsung here and make their webOS tablet available on all carriers. Wouldn’t that be something?

Apps? Thought you’d never ask.

* Dynamical Full is a mind-twisting puzzle game where every action has a reaction on the surrounding tiles of your gameboard.
* NesEm Pixi is exactly what the title says: it’s an NES emulator for the Pixi.

Yeah, that’s right, a Pixi app. Never thought we’d do that, eh? There’s more after the break, though a warning: there’s a decidedly health-oriented tilt to today’s new apps.

Our colleagues at CrackBerry.com have posted the above video from the Meet the BlackBerry Playbook developer sessions in NYC, and linked to another video from BGR posted a new video showing what purports to be a hands-on with the upcoming BlackBerry Playbook tablet from RIM. CrackBerry points out a few highlights of the "new" interface:

* The entire bezel is used for navigating. Swipe the sides to get around system-wide. The top is available for specific actions within applications
* There are "views" much like BlackBerry 6 for navigating that can be swiped through
* Swipe to move between views and apps, flick up to exit an app
* Looks like you can open the keyboard by swiping up from the bottom left on the bezel

We put "new" in quotes because, obviously, we've seen most or all of these features before, as integral or homebrew elements in webOS. Navigation swipes, gesture areas, live apps even in minimized (card) mode, the list goes on and on. The PlayBook's interface is startlingly, or perhaps frighteningly, similar to webOS, and while we are pleased to see how good it looks on a tablet (hurry up with that PalmPad!), we're not so happy to see it on an actual, working, competing device from a rather well-funded and strong competitor like RIM. (The comment near the end of the video that developers whose apps are accepted for the PlayBook's marketplace will get a free PlayBook serves to emphasize the power of RIM's resources.)

We don't know whether HP intends to take any legal action against RIM for this "faithful reproduction" of webOS, or whether it might even have the necessary patents to do so. For that matter, RIM is known for its own aggressive patent cases (both offense and defense). Even if HP thought it could and should bring an infringement case, it might decide against to avoid getting countersued by RIM, or because it might then seem like it had to compete in the courts rather than the marketplace.

We're with you, webOS faithful: it's painful to watch the competition, especially when it looks so much like our own favorite OS. We, like you, are more than ready to be blown away by whatever Palm/HP is going to announce whenever it is going to do so. Meanwhile, let's try to imagine that the BGR video was actually a sneak peak of a webOS tablet...but that it's going to be even cooler.

webOS Developer Geoff Gauchet (aka @zhephree) has brought plenty of goodness to us all, most famously with his FourSquare app and Neato! for shooting data to and from webOS devices and computers. For his next trick, Gauchet is planning on bringing a new app called Incredible! that will serve as an aggregated social media reading tool.

Incredible! will pull in Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare, Flickr, Gowalla, Picasa, Delicious, LinkedIn, YouTube, Untappd, and, yes, a few other streams into a single unified app. Rather than try to be a full-featured client for all of these services, Incredible! will focus on providing a single way to read your entire social stream in an interface that is able to give you all those services in something actually readable.

There have been attempts to do similar things on other platforms (MotoBlur on Android comes to mind) and even on the desktop. Based on the screenshots and plans for the app, we're optimistic that Gauchet just may have done a better job than any of them. Read on for our exclusive preview of Incredible!

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the fort,
Not a piggy was stirring, not even Old Snort.
The snow blocks were perched such that none could get in,
Surrounded by stone slabs and wood planks so thin.

The piglets were nestled all snug in their hay,
While visions of slop troughs awaited next day.
And King Snout in his gold crow, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.

When out of the fort there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my hay to see what was the matter.
Away to the turret I ran so engaged,
Threw over the snow block and saw birds enraged.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
Gave the luster of mid-day to the birds below.
A slingshot they lined up behind with a clap,
And I thought to myself, “This is it, awww crap.”

Yes, after some teasing, Angry Birds Seasons is now available in the App Catalog. Rovio’s $1.99 game (for Pre and Pixi) gives you an advent calendar-style daily release of a new winter-themed level right up until Christmas, plus the complete Halloween edition that we missed out on this autumn. Be prepared to lose a few more hours of your life.