Solidinfotech: BBM for Android

A day after relaunching its BBM app for Android and iOS on 22nd Oct. 2013, BlackBerry says its cross-platform BBM app has been downloaded over 10 million times within 24 hours.

BBM head Andrew Bocking, in a blog post, said that BBM topped the Apple App Store free app rankings chart in the first 24 hours - taking the number one slot in more than 75 countries, including the US, Canada, the UK, Indonesia and most of the Middle East. In the Google Play Store, BBM has earned 60,000 five-star reviews from about 87,000 reviews.

BBM for Android, BBM for iPhone finally here, but not for all

#BBMforAll - the hashtag BlackBerry had been actively using before the initial BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) launch got botched. Now that BlackBerry has after a month-long wait announced that BBM for Android and BBM for iPhone are ready to download and install, not all users will be able to start messaging right away.

BBM is available as a free download for Android smartphones running Ice Cream Sandwich(Android 4.0)and Jelly Bean (Android 4.2) and for iPhones running iOS 6 and iOS 7.

At launch, the BBM Video calling and BBM Voice calling features are not available on BBM's Android and iPhone apps but BlackBerry says these are are planned for availability in a future version.

"We committed to delivering a BBM experience on iPhone and Android that was equal to that on BlackBerry 10. That means bringing BBM Video, BBM Voice and BBM Channels to Android and iPhone customers too. My team is still committed to bringing those features to BBM on Android and iPhone in the near future," said Bocking.

BlackBerry is yet to announce plans to bring BBM to Windows Phone devices.

INSTALL

To install BBM for Android or iPhone visit BBM.com from your mobile phone browser or click here for the Android version, iPhone users click here.

If unsuccessful click here to install in three(3) steps only....

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