If you are still using a BlackBerry Playbook, there is a good change you are still using the BlackBerry Bridge app. If you don’t know what BlackBerry Bridge is, it is an app that allows you to use your BlackBerry smartphone as a remote control for your BlackBerry Playbook and take full control of it. It also allows you to use features like SMS text and BBM right on your Playbook. It’s a great feature to use if you need to charge up your BlackBerry Smartphone but still want to chat. You can also View, edit, and attach files on your Playbook that are saved to your BlackBerry device. Probably the best feature, is the Internet tethering feature, that allows your Playbook to use data connection from your mobile network on your device. Back in the day, this was a great feature, but a lot of carriers cap your data or have blocked this feature. Back when the BlackBerry PlayBook was first launched and BlackBerry decided not to include the PIM features such as email. BlackBerry Bridge was important because it allowed you to bridge over your Email accounts.

Now, why are we talking about this today? It seems BlackBerry has pushed out an update for the app on BlackBerry 10. (I haven’t fired up any BBOS devices to check if the update is there too). Now we know BlackBerry has shown any interest in the PlayBook for 3 years are so and we didn’t think they would be. Which is why a BlackBerry Bridge app update is a little strange, but we will take it. Sadly there is no change log for the App so maybe it was just a bug fix, or an update to work with 10.3.3. Now this could also be an App that didn’t update right away on my device but I usually check my app updates frequently! You can grab the update for BlackBerry World or click the link below! Let us know if you find any interesting new things! Do you still use your PlayBook?

Click here to download BlackBerry Bridge