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If you're among the many who took advantage of grabbing an unlocked AT&T Priv for cheap only to find out you were somewhat shut out of updates, I have some good news for you. Starting today, with a new software update that should be arriving soon, your updates will now come directly from BlackBerry.
Back in May BlackBerry let it be known they were working on solution for those users and this will certainly do the trick for sure. The BlackBerry Knowledge Base has yet to be updated to reflect these changes but, that will be adjusted soon enough. We'll add a link to the Knowledge Base when it updates.
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