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BlackBerry Rolling Out 10.3.1 Software Update

BlackBerry Ltd. has released, on Thursday, the BlackBerry OS 10.3.1, accompanying the latest BlackBerry Blend of the company featuring for messaging and sharing content to all BB10 devices. BlackBerry 10.3.1 was debuted when, late last year, the BlackBerry Classic was launched, however, he update is now directed to the BlackBerry Z3, Z30, Z10, Q10, Q5, , Porsche Design P’9982 and Passport. Timing of the release of the update would apparently differ by geographic region and wireless carrier.

This BlackBerry Blend allows the users to receive notifications, files transfer and aid in gaining access to work emails, across the wide range of devices, along with Windows based PCs, Android Tablets and Macs as well as all the BB10.3.1 compatible smartphones. The app earlier was available only on BB10 smartphone highlighting the 10.3.1 update, BlackBerry Passport and BlackBerry Classic. The Appstore of Amazon is directly, at the present, integrated into the operating system, offering easy access to the users to Android Apps, keyboard shortcuts which are advantaged by the BlackBerry devices with physical keyboards similar to the Q10 and Passport, and upgraded camera software.

BlackBerry Blend

Amazon App Store

Better battery life is included in other enhancements, in addition to that there are adjustments to the popular BlackBerry Hub of BB10 and BlackBerry Assistant. BlackBerry Assistant is the very first digital assistant of the BlackBerry and it could be used with text and voice commands to aid the users in managing the work and personal emails, calendar, contacts and 10 other native BlackBerry applications. This is the single smartphone assistant in the market currently which can get access to your both work and personal content in your work perimeter. BB assistant brilliantly concludes how to respond to you depending on your type of interaction with it for example if you used to type then it will silently respond, if you speak to it then it will speak back to you and if you trigger the Bluetooth then it would speak back with some additional context in account of its assumption about you that you might be having no access to the screen.

BlackBerry Assist App

BlackBerry Hub with Immediate Actions is the particular one corner where you can manage all your emails, conversations, BBM, social media, texts, phone calls and much more. This latest instant action feature assist you in quick organization of your inbox and to perform actions on the same without getting into the calendar invite and each individual message. You need to just toggle the read status or the file and delete or flag the email message only with single tapping. You can now transfer your conversation to an SMS, meeting invite or a voice call even when you are composing the email.

However, BB10.3.1 is the largest update to the BlackBerry 10 since its release in 2013. It contains various important improvements to the operating system.

And David Kleidermacher, last week, has been titled as the new chief security officer of the company.
This guy, at just 27, has quit a job of $500,000 at BlackBerry for the sake of launching a startup which has been born out of his frustration working there.

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