ANDROID AND IOS PHONE USER WILL SOON BE ENJOY BBM MESSENGER

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins
announced during the company’s annual
BlackBerry Live conference today that
their popular social messaging system
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), will be
made available across multiple mobile
platforms later this year.
“It’s time to bring BBM to a greater
audience. No matter what mobile device
they carry,” Heins said during the
conference. He added that BBM will be
made available for Android and iOS as a
free app this summer, which should be
available for African users in a couple of
weeks.
For the app to work on iOS, users will
have to make sure that they update to at
least iOS 6 or above, while Android users
will have to update their devices to
version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or
above.
Heins added that BlackBerry has more
than 60 million monthly active customers,
with more than 51 million people using
BBM an average of 90 minutes per day,
and added that BBM video chat, voice and
screen sharing features will also be
available across multiple platforms.
“For BlackBerry, messaging and
collaboration are inseparable from the
mobile experience, and the time is
definitely right for BBM to become a
multi-platform mobile service. BBM has
always been one of the most engaging
services for BlackBerry customers,
enabling them to easily connect while
maintaining a valued level of personal
privacy. We’re excited to offer iOS and
Android users the possibility to join the
BBM community,” said Andrew Bocking,
Executive Vice President, Software
Product Management and Ecosystem, at
BlackBerry.
BlackBerry also announced that BBM will
be getting Channel functionalities, where
users will be able to chat to more than
one person as a time. Any users will be
able to create a channel, and then other
users can subscribe to the channel to
receive updates as they are posted.
Also during the BlackBerry Live
conference, the company unveiled their
Q5 QWERTY keyboard phone, which is
aimed at emerging and developing
markets.
“BlackBerry is excited to bring a new
BlackBerry QWERTY smartphone, the
BlackBerry Q5, to our customers in
selected markets around world,” said
Heins. “The BlackBerry Q5 gives you the
best of everything with its cutting-edge
BlackBerry 10 functionality and a physical
QWERTY keyboard. It is for youthful fans
that are passionate, confident and bold,
and it makes it easy for them to have fun,
create, share and stay connected.”
“The phone has a 3.1-inch touchscreen
atop a keyboard, just like the presumably
higher-end Q10 that launched earlier this
spring. Unlike the more sober Z10 or Q10
phones, though, the Q5 will come in red,
white, black, and pink. It’s set to launch in
parts of Europe, the Middle East, Africa,
Asia, and Latin America starting in July,”
The Verge wrote.
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good move

Nice 1 we can't wait oooo

blacberry market is certainly going to fall rapidly.

jeeqer wrote:

blacberry market is certainly going to fall rapidly.

u make sense

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