{"id":163394,"date":"2016-04-28T10:42:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T08:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=163394"},"modified":"2016-04-28T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T10:23:17","slug":"blackberry-priv-upgrade-to-android-marshmallow-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/163394-blackberry-priv-upgrade-to-android-marshmallow-released.html","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry PRIV upgrade to Android Marshmallow released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry has released the Android 6.0 Marshmallow mobile operating system for its Android-powered PRIV smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>Existing PRIV users will be able to upgrade to Android 6.0 by downloading the software update on their device.<\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry promised improvements to the following elements of the PRIV\u2019s software:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mobile security.<\/li>\n<li>New ways to monitor and control which of your data apps have access to.<\/li>\n<li>BlackBerry keyboard.<\/li>\n<li>BlackBerry Hub.<\/li>\n<li>BlackBerry launcher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The upgrade will also improve battery performance and add features to the PRIV\u2019s camera, said BlackBerry.<\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry PRIV\u2019s keyboard will receive more emoji, swipe-based gesture typing, better word predictions, and finer cursor control through tapping on physical keys.<\/p>\n<p>The camera will receive the ability to capture slow-motion video &#8211; without audio at this time &#8211; at 120 frames per second.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on BlackBerry<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/161192-blackberry-to-launch-new-mid-range-android-smartphones.html\"><strong>BlackBerry to launch new mid-range Android smartphones<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/159263-blackberry-fought-back-against-facebook-and-whatsapp-and-lost.html\"><strong>BlackBerry fought back against Facebook and WhatsApp, and lost<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/154584-blackberry-priv-prices-in-south-africa-vodacom-vs-mtn-vs-cell-c.html\"><strong>BlackBerry PRIV prices in South Africa: Vodacom vs MTN vs Cell C<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/reviews\/153766-blackberry-priv-review-the-best-android-smartphone-of-the-year.html\"><strong>BlackBerry PRIV review: the best Android smartphone of the year<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry has released Android 6.0 Marshmallow for its PRIV smartphone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":139906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[36,397,34205,97,33064,167],"class_list":["post-163394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-android","tag-android-6-0-marshmallow","tag-blackberry","tag-blackberry-priv","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163396,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163394\/revisions\/163396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}