May 4, 2011 07:26 GMT  ·  By

Yesterday, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced a series of appealing new features for their first tablet PC, the BlackBerry PlayBook, some of which arrive via a new software update for the device, the Tablet OS 1.0.3, others in the form of applications.

Among these apps, we can count a new, highly addictive game, which is already very popular among users of mobile phones, namely Angry Birds for BlackBerry PlayBook.

Apple's users have it, Google's users have it, and RIM's PlayBook users are going to receive it as well, sometime during summer.

No specific info on whether the app will be free or paid emerged for the time being, but Rovio, the company behind the game, committed to periodically update it, so that users would benefit from a fresh experience every few weeks.

However, this is only one of the applications that PlayBook ownres can enjoy on their devices, as the company notes in a recent post in its blog:

As you know, the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet comes preloaded with a ton of great apps – Facebook, video chat, Kobo, Need for Speed, Tetris, Docs 2 Go, Podcasts, Slacker and more.

In addition to all of these out-of-the-box apps, we already have thousands of BlackBerry PlayBook tablet apps in BlackBerry App World, and today during the keynote, a number of new and exciting apps were showcased and will be coming soon – including Angry Birds!

At the BlackBerry World conference, RIM also demoed applications built for Google's Android platform that were running on its BlackBerry PlayBook. The software should work on the tablet PC without the need of modifications, it seems.

On top of that, RIM demoed native email, calendar, contacts, and task applications on the tablet PC, and announced that these features should arrive on it later this summer.

Also at the conference, RIM announced that Microsoft's Bing will power search on BlackBerry devices, the PlayBook included, and that Maps would also be included into the mix, and more.

“Microsoft showed how OCR camera search, voice search, streetside block view, photosynth panorama would work with the BlackBerry platform, and Blaise Aguera y Arcas from Microsoft also performed a number of demos including access to contextual info, local restaurant search and Bing deals search,” RIM notes.

Adobe was also present at the event, showcasing apps that are available for PlayBook users, including Readers Digest (an app developed using the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite), Facebook, and Adobe Connect.