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BlackBerry customers using their new handset to share music and videos could end up revealing much more than they intended.

A setting on the new Q10 alerts your BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) contacts to which tracks you are enjoying - but will also inform them if you've been secretly using your smartphone to watch porn online.

BlackBerry Z10 customers flagged up the issue with the 'Show What I'm Listening To' feature, which is also built in to the newest Q10 model.

Another - who said 'that has happened a lot of times to my contacts' - added that he'd had to tell his uncle what was happening because he was 'having "me time"', a report in The Sun said.

BlackBerry users can watch videos on the device's Media Player - the same platform it uses to play music.
Not so secret habit: Z10 users flagged up the issue with the feature, which is also built into the new Q10 handset, on the CrackBerry web forum

As a result, customers who choose to share what music they listen to with their contacts, will also share the videos they watch.

Should a customer decide to watch adult content on their Q10, their BBM contacts will know exactly which site they visited, and when.

BlackBerry has said the feature has to be switched on by the individual user, but some customers said it was activated when they got their smartphone and that they had had disable the feature themselves.

The Q10 will be available in the UK next week for £579, although is expected to be subsidised by major operators, and in the US next month.

Many say the handset is Blackberry's last chance after the touchscreen version of the phone, called the Z10, failed to sell as well as the firm hoped.

Blackberry has unveiled the phone it hopes has one feature to differentiate it from the touchscreen competition - a QWERTY keyboard.

The Q10 will be available in the UK next week for £579, although is expected to be subsidised by major operators, and in the US next month.

Many say the handset is Blackberry's last chance after the touchscreen version of the phone, called the Z10, failed to sell as well as the firm hoped.

A delay in selling the new BlackBerry has derailed the firm's efforts to hang on to customers considering switching to the iPhone or a Google handset.

Although the BlackBerry has fallen behind rivals, many 'power' users have stayed loyal because they prefer a physical keyboard over the touch screen on the iPhone and most Android devices.

Source : dailymail

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