BlackBerry, the company formerly known as RIM, officially launched its new operating system and two new handsets at a press event in New York today. One device that wasn't mentioned during the main presentation was BlackBerry's struggling, oft-forgotten tablet, the PlayBook.

We've looked at the PlayBook twice before, once at its initial release back in April of 2011 and then again eighteen months later in October 2012. The PlayBook was released in a state that could best be described as "unpolished." However, our 18-month revisit showed a tablet that had matured considerably, gaining functionality and smoothing out the rough edges.

There were rumors floating around prior to the BlackBerry 10 launch that the PlayBook would get a software update to the new operating system, and these rumors were officially confirmed by BlackBerry today. Details are sketchy at this point, without any hint of a date.

Also unconfirmed is whether the upgrade will be software-only, or whether the PlayBook will receive a spec bump. The fastest currently-available hardware features a dual-core 1.5 GHz Cortex A9-based Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage. Given BlackBerry 10's heavy reliance on smoothness and the "BlackBerry Flow" as selling points to the new operating system, along with a much-increased emphasis on apps and video content, a bump in RAM to at least match the newly released Z10's 2GB seems likely.