BlackBerry PRIV's Apps Get Updated: Slow Motion Video Capture, Improved Keyboard, Separate Work And Personal Apps In The Launcher

Android Police

By Rita El Khoury

Published Mar 1, 2016

If you're one of the users who have committed to BlackBerry's first foray into Android with the PRIV, you'll be happy to know that the company isn't forgetting its early adopters or leaving them behind. It's been releasing security patches for its phones and now it's updating some of the preloaded apps on the PRIV: the camera, keyboard, and launcher.

The BlackBerry Camera app is adding a mode to capture slow motion video at 120fps (which can be played back at 30fps), but without any audio. The Keyboard app is getting plenty of enhancements to its prediction and usability, including learning from your social accounts and email, faster word deletion, and improvements to cursor control. And finally, the Launcher app will now show apps by Recent, Work, and Personal, and let you assign a new default homescreen or delete existing homescreens.

Here are the changelogs and download links to each of these apps.

BlackBerry Camera - WHAT'S NEW

• Slow Motion video

• Improved selfie stick compatibility

• Minor enhancements and stability fixes

BlackBerry Keyboard - WHAT'S NEW

The BlackBerry Keyboard has been updated to provide improved predictions, corrections and enhanced control from the physical keyboard.

• Enhanced with the option to learn from email and text messages in the Hub for better predictions and corrections

• Improved prediction and correction in email fields

• Improved cursor control from the physical keyboard

• Ability to learn word/number combinations (e.g. 1800flowers)

• Improved corrections in Russian