BlackBerry might be facing some serious troubles in
worldwide smartphone market, but it seems its most popular mobile app BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is still
very much popular among the mobile users. Recently BlackBerry decided to resume
the roll out of BBM App for Android and iOS users officially, and as per reports the app has achieved more than 10
million downloads within 24 hours.
It is undoubtedly one of the biggest single-day openings for a mobile
application, and BBM has managed to earn it with style. This simply proves that
this app is very much popular even among the Android and iPhone users, who are now rapidly sharing their BBM Pins in the social networking
sites like Facebook and Twitter to connect with more buddies.
BlackBerry announced this milestone with joy, and also added that the BBM
app had earned the top slot in the free app section of iTunes App Store in more
than 75 countries within first day of re-launch. The list of countries includes
the heavyweight names of the US, Indonesia, Canada, the UK and several Middle
East countries.
The company had also announced that the users were giving this app
thumbs up from all over the world, and most of the initial reviews in both the Google
Play and iTunes App Store were very much positive. Eventually the BBM app had
recorded 60,000 Five-star reviews on Google Play alone within that short time
span.
Mr. Andrew Bocking, the Executive Vice President of BBM at BlackBerry,
was very happy while announcing such a great achievement. He said, "This has been an incredible launch for BBM across Android
and iPhone devices. The mobile messaging market is full of opportunity for BBM.
We intend to be the leading private social network for everyone who needs the
immediate communication and collaboration of instant messaging combined with
the privacy, control and reliability delivered through BBM."
So finally that day came, and BlackBerry’s most popular instant
messaging platform of all time made its much-awaited debut on non-BlackBerry mobile
OS platforms such as Android and iOS on last Monday of current week. The users
had waited more than a month for it to happen, and now they all seemed quite
happy indeed.
The BlackBerry Messenger or popularly known as BBM allows a user to send
and receive texts, voice messages and images to another user. The non
BlackBerry OS users just need to log-in with a BlackBerry ID, and after that
he/she will be allocated with a unique PIN. The users can easily make new
friends by adding them while sharing their BBM PIN with them via SMS, social
network, chat and email along with the QR Codes option.
However, we have to mention here that at a given time one BlackBerry ID
can only be accessed on single device. Another highlighting point is that on
the BlackBerry 10 OS platform BBM offers voice and video calling too through BBM
Voice and BBM Video.
BlackBerry has assured that very soon the BBM Voice will be introduced to
BBM for Android and iOS too. The company is also planning to unveil BBM Video and BBM
Channels (broadcast groups) to these non-BlackBerry OS platforms in the near
future.
Wrap Up
We think it is quite expected that the launch of BBM App in other mobile OS platforms would create a serious buzz in the
mobile world, and the fact that it has been downloaded more than 10 million
times in just first 24 hours proved that it is still one of the best (if not
the best) messenger apps of the world.
So have you downloaded the BBM app to your own device yet? If yes, then
please feel free to share the initial experience of yours with us. If you find
this article useful then consider sharing it on your favorite social networking
site.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteYeah most of people was waiting for BBM for android even i was on the list. BBM for android is really a great app for android users.
thanks