When BlackBerry announced
that its Messenger service (BBM) was coming to iOS and Android many
people, including me, got very excited, but unfortunately, the company
wasn’t ready to announce a release date back then.
Now, almost a month after the Blackberry Live 2013 conference, the
company has announced that its BBM service will hit Android and iOS as a
standalone app on June 27. Here’s the tweet from BlackBerry Worldwide that shows the app running on an iPhone.
Bbm officially available on iphone and android phones from 27th june2013 twitter.com/bbworldwid/sta…
— Blackberry Worldwide (@bbworldwid) May 29, 2013
Initially, the BlackBerry Messenger or BBM, as it’s more commonly
known, will only support BBM chats, multi-person chats, voice note
sharing, and BlackBerry Groups, where BBM users are able to set up
groups to share calendar, photos, files, etc.
The company however, intends to make the BBM for Android and iOS as
fully featured as it is on BlackBerry 10, only this will happen
gradually. BlackBerry has plans to expand the functionality of the app
with some of the new BBM features such as Voice and video calls,
Screenshare, and the just announced Channels. These will come as
subsequent updates.
Awesome!! We are excited and waiting for 27th june for the BBM Standalone app coming to iOS and Android. This would be fun to use, stay connected with friends, and nice experience of sharing photos and other files in a larger platform.
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