During the BlackBerry Innovation Forum today, RIM took some time to show off the much anticipated native apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Attendees got a peek at the native email, calendar and contacts applications that are said to be part of the PlayBook Tablet OS 2.0 due out in February. The email client looks as to be expected -- messages on the left with a preview pane on the right. The calendar is much the same, showing the full month view along with a daily agenda view. The contacts app is powered by Gist which brings a ton of extra info to the contact list (you can check out more on Gist for BlackBerry here). All in all some very cool stuff, but we'll still have to wait quite a while to try it hands on. The native apps are rumored to be arriving on February 17th of next year. More images after the break.
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