Marshmallow beta could hit BlackBerry Priv as soon as next week
While the final Marshmallow update for BlackBerry's Priv smartphone will arrive sometime around late April-early May, a beta update could be rolled out as soon as next week.
This was hinted by Michael Clewley, who is the director of Handheld Software Product Management at the company.
I’d talk about a #PRIV Marshmallow beta today but given #AprilFools you might not believe me! Gonna have to wait for next week
— Michael Clewley (@MichaelClewley) April 1, 2016
This comes just days after BlackBerry's debut Android phone was caught running Android Marshmallow in a video. Sadly, there's currently no information on exactly what changes the Priv Marshmallow update will bring.
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- Anon
- 04 Apr 2016
- N%j
They release monthly security patches on par with Nexus devices and much faster than any other OEM vendor. That's good enough... for those who care about security and not the fancy "new" version.
- Anon
- 04 Apr 2016
- N%j
1. BlackBerry releases monthly security patches on par with Nexus devices. That's way ahead of Sammy and is much more critical than a version update. 2. BlackBerry modifies Android kernel to some extend for better security. This will surely tak...
- Trooper
- 03 Apr 2016
- mXt
Which equates to no more than 1% of the smart-phone owning population.