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BBM’s $1 privacy add-on offers private chat, message editing

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BlackBerry’s introducing a $1 privacy subscription for folks who continue to use Messenger on iOS, Android and its own platform. It will totally replace the old “timed and retracted messages” option, with “private chat” feature as its main draw. Private chats strip everyone’s name and icon in that window and automatically disappear after a certain period of inactivity to protect people from busybodies who love going through someone else’s phone and — hurts to admit they exist, but they do — backstabbers. In addition to private chat, the subscription also gives users the power to edit messages and includes the old timed and retracted messaging features.

The Android app gets a material design-inspired overhaul, as well, while the iOS version’s font size now depends on the user’s settings. BlackBerry and Android users should be able to download the update and pay for the subscription right now, but iOS devotees still have to wait for it pop up on iTunes.

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Filed under: Misc, Mobile, Blackberry

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Via: VentureBeat, PhoneArena

Source: BlackBerry

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