Now also free calls to BlackBerry Messenger for iOS and Android - Techzine

BlackBerry has today released an update to the BlackBerry Messenger app for iOS and Android. In this new version it is possible to make calls via WiFi or 3G/4G-verbinding each other. This can be so free with each other without it costing you calling minutes. However, it goes from your data usage off if you call through mobile Internet.

This sets the BlackBerry Messenger app a step that other message services have not yet put. With apps like Whatsapp and Facebook messenger is not possible to call each other. However, there are apps that aim to make calls via WiFi and mobile internet, but here are the messaging services are often of lower quality or absent. Examples include Skype and Viber.

BlackBerry now trying via messenger still some more in the picture to get to the consumer. The manufacturer has been available in heavy weather now it seems to have. Competition from Android and iOS permanently lost Windows Phone also has BlackBerry been passed. To make the BlackBerry Messenger app a success first, many users will have to download the app and install it. The question is whether that happened or that people stick to WhatsApp.

Another new feature in the app are Channels, herein it possible to users who do not know to talk about common interests. Both users and companies can create channels, but probably allowed companies to pay for this. These features were already available for some time in BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system of the company, including maarn now on iOS and Android.

BBM Voice: free calls from BlackBerry Messenger - iphoneclub.nl

Friday, February 14, 2014 (07:37) | Bart Breij

Now you can make free calls to other users in BlackBerry Messenger or BBM. The new feature works on the Wi-Fi network and mobile internet connections, BBM Voice baptized. You know if you can call on the green dot in the upper right chat with someone. Another You call someone without as moving image. It is therefore not to call and video call. The application is also equipped with BBM Channels. So you can meechatten about things that interest you.

The list of innovations is much greater. BlackBerry Messenger now has Dropbox integration so that you can send to contacts in the app. Documents from the cloud service The recipient can save the document on your phone or tablet, or put themselves in their own Dropbox folder. Daan Aast it is now possible to send. Faster picture or voice message You can find the necessary speed buttons just above the keyboard. Furthermore, there are added to 100 smileys BBM and is the size of group chats stretched to 50 persons.

Channels BBM BlackBerry Messenger is a feature that finally has its own character, its own unique selling point gives at compared to the many competition. The Channels act as a kind of chatrooms. You’re not looking at the user, but on topics that interest you, and then you can join.

BBM put in the channels on hobbies, sports and entertainment, fashion, cars and products. That does not come out of thin air. It should perhaps be the revenue model of the application. Channels are not only created by users: even brands and companies can claim channels. If you sign in to a channel, you will get messages from the owner of the channel as a push message along. Companies can thus actively sending messages to you.

Download: BBM (free, iPhone, iOS 6.0 +)

Andrew Bocking, head BBM, blackberry leaves - GSMinfo.nl

Andrew Bocking, Head of BlackBerry Messenger, is leaving the company. Bocking says to leave the company voluntarily and his department is part of another BlackBerry branch.

Andrew Bocking was the Executive Vice President of BlackBerry Messenger, and so was the person ultimately responsible for the popular chat service of the Canadian company. The departure of Bocking is voluntary: he gets himself, and is not fired, so let the company know at CrackBerry. Bocking worked for some time for BlackBerry, and has worked to significantly expand BBM especially the past year. For example, there recently BBM for Android and iPhone, and is possible to make free calls and chat with BBM.

Reorganization at BlackBerry

BlackBerry after disappointing quarterly results and disappointing sales of BlackBerry 10 devices like the BlackBerry Z10 heavily beaten reorganizing. In recent months there have been various changes in the management of BlackBerry. As CEO Thorsten Heins was replaced by John Chen, who would want to get the broom considerably by the company. As far as is known, Bocking’s departure nothing to do with the planned reorganization.

No direct replacement

BlackBerry is not looking for a replacement for Bocking. Instead, the BBM department will now be led by the head of BlackBerry’s Global Enterprise Solutions branch, John Sims. The company modification could indicate that BBM will play an important role and that BlackBerry Enterprise Service wants to push for companies.

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Head leaves BlackBerry BBM - Telecompaper

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Andrew Bocking, responsible for messagindienst BBM, blackberry leaves. According to the manufacturer, the CEO of his own accord left. Bocking is succeeded by John Sims, president of global enterprise solutions. BBM is one of the pillars of BlackBerry since the appointment of CEO John Chen late last year. It is still unclear what the plans are for BBM BlackBerry as mainly want to focus on the business market. Among Chen BBM is particularly popular among consumers.

Software update makes BlackBerry 10 devices to radio - Nutech

Through a software update is a radio feature added to the Blackberry Z30, Q10 and Q5.

that the company announced Tuesday. Version 10.2.1 also refreshes the screen that is displayed when the user receives a telefoontgesprek.

it has become possible to SMS and email groups to make and is it possible to unlock a number to a specific point on an image to drag.

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Web pages can be saved so that it can be viewed offline. Also, more detailed statistics on battery usage available. The update is rolling out as of Tuesday.

: NU.nl / Jeroen Crane

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High-end BlackBerry "Ontario" pops up on benchmark site - NieuweMobiel.NL

A trusty source of information about unannounced phones site with benchmark results. Handset makers would indeed like to know how their new products perform. And so today a leaked BlackBerry phone.

It is a device codenamed Ontario. This BlackBerry is doing this, it is already known. Along with the Windermere this should be the new high-end models. In addition to those names we did not know much of both models. Until today, because next to an entry on benchmark Geekbench site today also reach us some specifications.

example, the Ontario would be equipped with a Snapdragon 800 processor with four cores running at 2.15 GHz. The previous flagship had to do with a dual-core one. This means that the Blackberry OS has made for quad-core processors. Suitable finally Furthermore, we will know that the Ontario 2GB of RAM memory, like the Z30 and Q10. Is also to not consider a quick release. First, the new entry-level models of Foxconn expected.

Source: Geekbenchm

BlackBerry just will not sink: Pentagon ordered 80,000 new BlackBerrys - z24

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The share of BlackBerry is closed Tuesdays than 9 percent after the U.S. Department of Defense has ordered 80 thousand new phones in the Canadian smartphone maker.

, reports Bloomberg Tuesday.

The Pentagon chooses the phones from Canada because of the good security. BlackBerry therefore known.

The decision by the U.S. Department of Defense is a confirmation of the strategy of the new BlackBerry CEO John Chen. He wants the company focused on the two markets in which it is traditionally well represented: the business market and government

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Realty in the window

BlackBerry was also announced Tuesday that the bulk of his estate put in their own country in the window. The technology thereby did not disclose the targeted yield.

Blackberry continues its offices in Waterloo, said CEO Chen. In addition, the company wants to remain a strong presence in other major cities within and outside Canada. By selling commercial properties and where necessary to hire back BlackBerry would however extend its financial possibilities.

Radical change of

smartphone manufacturer lost ground rapidly in recent years to rivals like Apple and Samsung, which stormed the market with their phones with touch screens. BlackBerry missed that battle.

still be able to play a significant role in the company must implement a radical change and there is a lot of money for that. So going back more BlackBerry include phones with physical keyboards make and bring the cheap models in emerging markets.

Source: Z24/ANP

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