BlackBerry’s #BBM4ALL campaign looks set to go beyond the BBM for Android and iPhone apps that launched earlier this week. The company is reportedly looking to bring BBM to Windows Phone 8 as well as both Android and iOS tablets. BBM could also hit PC’s and a web-based version could also soon be available. The rumour comes from Twitter’s @BlackBerryScoops: […]
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BBM for Android and iPhone downloaded 10 million times in first day
More good news for BlackBerry today following the launch of BBM for Android and iPhone yesterday. The company announced that BBM was downloaded over 10 million times by Android and iPhone users and declared it “one of the best single-day openings for a mobile app to date.” BBM also became the number one free app on the App Store in […]
Disabling the BBM notification in BBM for Android
If you’ve installed BBM for Android, you’ve no doubt spotted the new BBM notification. You’ve also discovered that it cannot be dismissed. Or can it? It can but with a catch. First, let’s turn it off and then we’ll cover why doing so might not be such a good idea. Step 1. Open up BBM for Android and go into […]
BlackBerry resuming BBM for Android and iPhone rollout (Updated)
Good news today on the BlackBerry front. The company just announced that it will resume the deployment of BBM for Android and iPhone “in the next few hours.” This follows a report early last week that it would be available “within days.” The demand for BBM on Android and BBM on iPhone continues to be amazing. About six million people […]
BBM for Android and iPhone to launch “within days”
BlackBerry today revealed that it received some six million BBM for Android and iPhone pre-registrations. It originally launched on September 21 but BlackBerry quickly halted the deployment due to problems experienced by the messaging platform because of an unreleased (read leaked) version of BBM for Android. By the end of September, it still had no ETA as to when it […]
Still no ETA for BBM for Android and iPhone
BlackBerry took to Twitter today to reiterate that it remains committed to bringing BBM to Android and the iPhone but there is still no firm new date. Today’s tweet from its @BBM account indicates that they are “still 100% committed” even if they have no new information to share with us: Still 100% committed to bringing #BBM to Android and […]
BBM for Android and iPhone launch delayed by at least a week
An update today from Andrew Bocking, head of BBM at BlackBerry, indicates that the delayed launch for BBM for Android and iPhone will likely not take place this week. As BlackBerry indicated earlier, the launch delay is due to an unreleased, older version of the BBM for Android app that was leaked and made its way on a number of […]
BlackBerry halts BBM for Android and iPhone rollout
It feels like there is bad BlackBerry news almost every day now. BBM for Android was to have launched yesterday with the iPhone version to follow today. Instead, Android users found Google Play full of fake versions while iOS users saw it hit the App Store a day early. Shortly after, BlackBerry halted the rollout and pulled the iOS version. […]