BlackBerry announced in late April that it would be rolling out BBM’s
video calling feature to users on Android and iOS. Since then, the
company has gone ahead to make it possible for users in several
countries to be able to make calls using its popular messaging
service.


Users of BlackBerry Messenger in the US and Canada were the first to get the ability to make video calls in beta mode in early May. 26 Latin American countries followed on June 1st and 7 days later, BlackBerry made it possible for BBM users in 17 Middle East countries to make
calls across all major mobile platforms. Starting two days ago (June
14th), BBM users in 109 countries in Africa and Europe are now able
to do the same as well.
In order for users to be able to chat via video on BBM, they need to be
using a device with an Android version not older than version 4.4
(KitKat) and iOS 8 and above on Apple’s platform. Since the video
calling feature is enabled through a server-side update, users need not
do anything, it will just show up, no need to update the app on the
store.




The feature will be available globally to everyone starting July .
BlackBerry’s late attempts to open up its core service, BBM, to
competing platforms was informed by the company’s dwindling
fortunes in mobile and the rise of competing services. Facebook’s
Messenger platform has video calling as one of the main features
across all platforms while Apple users have had FaceTime all along


.
Even though BlackBerry rolled out BBM to iOS and Android back in
2013, video calling had only been available to BlackBerry 10 users.
Borrowing a leaf from competitor’s services and keen to stay relevant,
the company is partnering with various companies to provide mobile
money services inside BBM in a few markets where it is still popular.
BBM is still struggling with a strong competitor - Whatsapp which has
also been rumored to be working on a video calling feature as well..
Let's see if this update would bring back BBM fans.

http://www.naijatechguy.com/2016/06/bbm-rolls-out-video-calling-feature-to.html

Via www.nairaland.com

Lets see how it goes,, it will zap a lot of data tho..

BBM Video calling on Android has been rolled out worldwide for a few days now. Here is a screenshot

Nice

This shít BBM still exists? Their voice call was horrible, who knows how bad the video call would be

They don't want to compete at all.

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hmm

Am very busy nw

Great feature

BBM is too rigid...Whatsapp all the way abeg

Great for phone intimacy

Whatsapp too sweet

Another milestone

Bbm is still in existence ?

seen it on mine phone for about weeks now,dnt even bother trying if it works

With which data kwanu

I can only imagine how it'll be


the voice call was wack... now this







#Adonis3HasSpoken

Nice one for the lovers of video call

Bad market for liars

I didn't even bother installing the application on my android.watsap is ok.

Their eyes just open?

in other news

Bbm Shit, Who Still Uses Dis Shit

BlackBerry the best phone on earth wailers go and die

What is BBM?

Lemme sha comment for commenting sake... Ion even know what to comment jor

WhatsApp has long taken the place of BBM as it can virtually do everything BBM does. Perhaps this update will help restore its place but the idea of phasing out this feature on lower versions of Androids and IOS won't augur well for the company that is trying to build her dwindling market.

donhils:
This shít BBM still exists? Their voice call was horrible, who knows how bad the video call would be

Problem is from area location

heryurh:
Pls what is BBM

BBM is stale, I deleted mine a long time ago