BlackBerry Keyboard beta update improves punctuation input, Japanese and Hindi languages

The BlackBerry Keyboard app has had several beta releases over the past few weeks, and today, BlackBerry has decided to roll out another one with a handful of improvements and one seemingly odd feature removal.

What's New

For KEY2: Removed the swipe down gesture to bring up the Symbol screen
Improved handling of punctuation when backspacing to undo auto-correction
Improvements in Japanese and Hindi input
Stability fixes

The stability fixes, improvements to punctuation and languages are all great to see but why the removal of the wipe down gestures for the symbol screen on the KEY2? Given it's a beta release, I guess we'll have to see if it also gets removed from the official release once available.

Download: BlackBerry Keyboard (beta)

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