If you’re already a fan of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), we’ve got some exciting news designed to make it easier for you to connect with your entire mobile social network. BlackBerry plans to make BBM, our wildly popular mobile messaging service, available for the first time to iOS® and Android™ users this summer, (subject to approval by Google Play and the Apple App Store, as applicable). This means that, once available, you can welcome your friends and family using these other mobile platforms to connect over BBM and share in the Team BlackBerry love.

As we’ve chronicled on our Inside BlackBerry blog for some time now, BBM set the standard for mobile instant messaging with fast and reliable service and an added layer of engagement with delivered and read statuses. You’ve shared with us your stories about how BBM has kept you connected when it mattered most to you. Upon release of the multi-platform BBM service, you can broaden that real-time connection to friends and colleagues on other supported mobile platforms.

In the first version of multi-platform BBM, iOS and Android users are expected to be able to experience the following BBM features:

The immediacy of BBM chats
Multi-person chats
Voice note sharing
BlackBerry Groups, where BBM users are able to set up groups of up to 30 people and share calendar, photos, files and more

The team here at BlackBerry has definitely been working hard to bring the much-adored BBM experience to a wider group of mobile users. In a recent press release at BlackBerry Live 2013, Andrew Bocking, Executive Vice President, Software Product Management and Ecosystem, at BlackBerry had this to say:

“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.”


http://blogs.blackberry.com/2013/05/bbm-ios-android/?CPID=UKTWBBM

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HAHA GUD 4 DEM ANDROID RULES

It looks like whatsapp has given them enough problems.

This should be a technical knuckout for android over BB

Welcome development from RIM.

Then I can easily dump my bb for android. Galaxy note 3 on my mind

Timehin: Welcome development from RIM.

Then I can easily dump my bb for android. Galaxy note 3 on my mind

You can say that again. Abeg,Google play should approve it very fast

move this topic to front page pls @MOD

WhatsApp users will have no use for it.

It can only be useful for BB users who just migrated to Android platform.

All in all, BB is trying to gain some relevance in a iOS and android dominated tech world.

Nice one.

BBM is definitely the best messaging app on any platform. Better than Whatsapp in my opinion. Though it may hurt them in developing markets, overall it's a good move.

whatsapp don get real competitor now.

RIP BB!

sun_temi: whatsapp don get real competitor now.

You think WhatsApp users will dump it and go for BBM?

I don't think that's going to happen .

lanre316:


You think WhatsApp users will dump it and go for BBM?

I don't think that's going to happen .

just watch and see

But existing blackberry users are still gonna be subscribing before they can PING?

Am a WhatApp user, buh having both on the same platform wouldnt be a bad idea. Will prefer BBM tho.

lanre316:


You think WhatsApp users will dump it and go for BBM?

I don't think that's going to happen .

Defeated at last!


E dun finish!



Lol!

android all d way

Finally. .? Pinging lori tecno !

Jhor oh! !!

i dont tink dis is appening
.
if itz truly true den nobody is goin 2 use bb fones again

It could kill off sales for blackberry. Whatsapp will eventually die!

Now Blackerry (RIM) is about to lose that it uniqueness and the flagship item that stands it out.

The question now is; how do we connect ...as PIN won't work on other operating systems.

Best thing for them to do.

We had been advocating that blackberry cut it losses and introduce cross platform bbm to all mobile users and they just heard the cry.

If you can't meet up with the dynamic hardware market why not pitch your best solution and make though with it.

Same thing IBM did. I see RIM producing just phones very soon and dumping their platforms because apart from bbm chat nothing is unique to the fufu phones they produce.

i dey go buy android ooooooo

BBM is better than WhatsApp IMO.

I don't like the idea of automatically having you as a chat buddy because you have my number and whatsapp installed on your phone.

I so much love competition. Whatsapp is getting more popular by the day, so BBM is wising up.

A generic pin will be generated to each user on installation.

What will be my pin if I download the application with an android phone?

i remain mute , let them launch it first, if e still sharp like normal bb then i gats switch to better and higher alternative platform i dey miss my fifa 13 on this Z10 ... i just hope other platform work on their batt cuz for now bb10 batt is the best so far

Dam. I for see sales of bb phones plummeting big time. RIP blackberry phones.

sorry not interested on whats going on on other people's lives i hate BBM