o2 interactive let us know that Version 1.4.0 of Personal Assistant has been released and now available. Personal Assistant has received a few updates and continues to offer more functions which is a big plus for the end user.  Very handy application to have on your PlayBook.

30 Day free trial is available.

This release includes:
•IM fields for contacts (e.g. Twitter, GTalk, etc.)
•Four more custom fields for a total of 8 custom fields.
•Ability to show in the second line of the list: organization, title, birth date, anniversary and all custom fields.
•Selecting and editing new notes is now easier.
•All languages supported.
•Improvement to import poorly formed vCard files.
•Additional Time Zones.
•Application permission checking the documents directory at start-up.

Personal Assistant is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) that maintains its information on the BlackBerry® PlayBook™. The initial release manages contact information. Future release will expand this to include calendaring.

Contacts:
* Contact information includes: Full name (salutation, first, last and suffix), nickname, organization, title, emails, work phones, home phones, cell phones, work fax, home fax, work address, home address, categories, custom fields, time zone, access, sex, birth date, anniversary date, hidden, and notes.
* Four custom fields with custom labels.
* Ability to hide contacts
* Limitless custom categories.
* Choice of standard list or business list layout.
* Choice of secondary information in ‘Standard’ contact layout.
* ‘Business’ contact layout includes organization, email, work phone and cell phone.
* Show current time of contact in their time zone.
* Photo
* Photos auto re-size
* Quick filtering by last name, first name or organization name
* Filter by category
* Quick list include work phone, home phone, cell phone or email
* Email composer pop-up (pending final device)
* Default country, state and time zone on new contacts.
* Ability to recover deleted items up to 30 days.

Calendar Events:
* Coming Soon

Price 1.99  (Free Trial Available)

Available in BlackBerry App World Here.