New BBM for Windows Phone beta now available!

If yous're role of the BBM beta for Windows Telephone, you'll desire to go ahead and get yourself updated. BlackBerry has now rolled out v120.0.0.1 and it's packed total of bug fixes, features additions but alas, every bit it is a beta there'due south also some things to be enlightened of before you hop right into information technology. Luckily, BlackBerry has provided a total alter log for anybody to expect through and then yous can decide for yourself if you lot want to run a beta.

In This Build

Notification Improvements

Providing impactful notifications to users has long been one of the aspects of BBM that our users love. We're taking that a step further in improving the BBM for Windows :

BBM for Windows will now encounter message details as part of the notification without having to open the app
BBM users that send their BBM for Windows Phone friends a message will now see a "D" fifty-fifty if their Windows Telephone friend doesn't take BBM running
The new notification number displayed will now indicate the number of new chats (previously displayed the full number of new messages)

Fifty-fifty More than Features

Since the last BBM v1 for Windows Telephone beta build, we've also introduced:

People you know suggestions now appear full screen during setup
Invitation screen updates
Long press to move contact into category
UI handling to make groups stand out in contact list
Implemented Contacts pinning from Homepage
Groups invite improvements
Support for new emoticons
Barcode scanner/view finder display

Software Quality Improvements

The story for this updated version of BBM for Windows Phone doesn't cease with the new features. We've carefully pursued through issues that you've raised on the discussions forums and other feedback tools to target software quality improvements for this release too. The virtually notable software fixes are beneath:

Selecting BBM contact crashes app after changing BBID password
BBM stops responding when using emoticons
Portion of BBM screen gets black for some time while selecting contacts to invite to a group subsequently it has been created
Chats - Share location- Map not displaying the accurate location when tapped on the chat chimera
User is taken to the sent invitation tab on striking back after opening an email invite
Invitation: Scanning barcode seen in scanning device screen become stretched
Invites: Contact is not adding directly to the users contact
Feeds: Text 'No updates' displayed instead of 'No new items'

Known Bug

Notifications for received location are not received on the habitation screen; only afterwards opening BBM
Notifications for received pictures do not handle the HQ automatic request
Notification non received when a user leaves multi-conversation. Only after open BBM the notification is received
No notifications when users join a group
Group picture comment summit notification has no content after the colon
Existing contacts prove on the listing of "Find friends" and "Add, Invite to BBM"
After three notifications (3 chats) subsequent notifications are not received, sometimes no notifications at all
But 4 notifications for vocalism notation received out of 7
The notification number indicator is out of sync with the notification on the top of the screen

If yous're already in the beta and feel like doing some more beta testing, you can caput on over to the Windows Phone Store and download the latest release.

Heir-apparent's guide

Which XPS 15 display is best for you?

While the laptops look the aforementioned and have by and large the aforementioned features, there are some key differences to know about when choosing between the FHD+, 3.5K OLED, and UHD+ XPS 15 9510 models.