July update starts rolling out to BlackBerry phones

Himanshu, 06 July 2017

BlackBerry has announced that it has started rolling out the July security update to its Android-powered smartphones. The announcement came in the form of a tweet from the company's Security Incident Response Team.

#BBSIRT has released an advisory for our July #30dayPatchingSMR, read about it here https://t.co/I6go3N19aS pic.twitter.com/MwTgX2sPxc
— BlackBerry SIRT (@BBSIRT) July 5, 2017

It's worth mentioning that the update is currently only hitting units purchased through the company's online store ShopBlackBerry. Model bought from retailers and carriers may not get the update imminently.

In case you missed, the Nokia 6 as well as Pixels and Nexuses have also started receiving the latest security patch.

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Reader comments

TechLover1
06 Jul 2017
0En

So at least it is just better than nothing.

Eske Rahn
06 Jul 2017
s0C

The ShopBlackBerry part is not entirely correct. I got it on a AT&T branded BB Priv yesterday. ...Though when used outside the reach of AT&T net this version is in many respects treated as a native BB device without all the bloat, it sti...