BlackBerry has released a beta version of BBM for Android
Canadian BlackBerry today began internal testing of its popular messenger BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) for the operating system Android. Earlier, this development has been the highlight of proprietary BlackBerry OS and existed only in the version for your OS. The company said that while testing is limited, then the BBM still a phase of open beta testing. Today Android-version of BBM is available to participants of BlackBerry Beta Zone. In addition, testers must be a smartphone with Android 4.0 or later. Earlier, the head of the Blackberry Thorsten Heins said that the company intends to release BBM not only for Android, but under iOS. Speaking of BBM for Android and iOS, Haynes said that both these versions will be identical to the original functional messenger for BlackBerry 10.1 .
This, in particular, implies that users of other platforms will be free to communicate with each other and make video calls. Analysts say the move is a Canadian company will certainly attract some audience and impel messengers such as Skype, Whatsapp or Viber, but if BlackBerry came here before, then the effect would be more noticeable. In the BlackBerry say that now more than 60 million monthly owners use BBM BlackBerry devices. "Some may think that this step will harm sales of BlackBerry, but we do not think so, we believe that this is an expression of self-confidence.
Implementation of multi-platform not only improves the user interest, but also helps set corporate clients who previously had technical problems in heterogeneous environments, "- says Haynes. Recall that the popular WhatsApp messenger in March of this year earned a new mobile platform, BlackBerry 10, presenting serious competition to "native" application for the Canadian platform BlackBerry Messenger, in whose image in his time and was created by WhatsApp.
Speaking of BlackBerry-version messenger, it can be noted that WhatsApp has been rewritten for BB10 with the features of this platform. Thus, the new support features such as BlackBerry Flow, has integration with many other BlackBerry-based applications and supports the new features of the two BlackBerry10-smartphones, announced six weeks ago.
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