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This enables Blackberry on Twitter.

Earlier it was announced that six million people had indicated that they wish to be informed about the app informed. That happened after the roll was temporarily shut down.

chat application similar to Whatsapp and Google Hangouts is free and appeared Monday in the application store for Android and iOS. Interested parties should sit in a queue.

After eight o’clock placed Blackberry on Twitter: “The next five million in line, it’s your turn!” Implying that the first five million people had the new app. How much the counter now stands, is not known.

BBM was previously only available on Blackberry’s. In the Netherlands, the service known as pinging. By expanding the platforms to BBM a competitor of Whatsapp.

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It has lasted a long time, but since today is the BlackBerry Messenger download for Android finally available. The app is officially available in the Play Store, all users must first enter an email address to BlackBerry Messenger actually use.

who had already given access, can use BlackBerry Messenger directly and does not go into a queue.

BlackBerry Messenger enables you to chat with BlackBerry, iPhone – and Android users. The chat app is 13MB large, free to download and works with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or higher.

A week ago, Frank Boulben, head of the marketing department of BlackBerry, announced that the BlackBerry Messenger release ‘within days’ would appear. Earlier it was launching the app has been postponed indefinitely. The release of the app is, to say the least, been problematic.

BlackBerry Messenger, like WhatsApp, always connected so you receive instant messages directly. You see with the checkmarks back a message if this is delivered or read. Additionally, you can send voice messages with the app and group discussions with up to 30 people.

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Due to the huge popularity of the BlackBerry Messenger chat application on Android and iOS BlackBerry phone manufacturer has chosen to convert. interested in the virtual queue This hopes to reduce.

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the BlackBerry Messenger application will download from the App Store or the Google Play Store can do it the regular way. When the application is started, users should have. Their email address Subsequently BlackBerry in small groups of new users.

BlackBerry was originally planning to bring Messenger chat application. already the end of September from However, the time for draining the app caused problems. Now left more than six million people have been able to in the application, after which the interest smartphone maker decided now phased out to bring the application. In the first eight hours after the release of this application is downloaded more than five million times, according to the company.

BlackBerry phones may now not very popular anymore, but according to the company, there are still sixty million users who use the messaging Messenger. Daily send and receive these users over ten billion messages, according to BlackBerry.

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Much enthusiasm for multiplatform BlackBerry Messenger - Techzine

Since yesterday evening BlackBerry started the rollout of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for Android and iOS mobile operating systems. This step will BlackBerrys chat network compete including WhatsApp and Google Hangouts. The app was downloaded 5 million times within 8 hours.

terms of popularity with BBM yet it seems to sit well. Because of the many downloads of the application in the Google Play Store and the App Store a digital queue. Arose Eventually, the interested parties who had registered on the official site BBM be the first opportunity to use the application. According BlackBerry would have been there. 6 million registrations How many counter currently stands in total is not known.

Sending messages via BlackBerry Messenger is in the Benelux also known as ping . With the availability of BBM for Android and iOS mobile operating systems will compete with existing BlackBerry chat apps like WhatsApp and Google Hangouts.

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BlackBerry itself there might be waiting, says Blankesteijn. “They might argue that when no one is using their cell phones more, then they only software in the world, either. Hoping there yet to earn or some money to the user data it presents.”

In the first eight hours that the messaging was available, the app is downloaded five million times. But the dominance of WhatsApp for BlackBerry is a major barrier that the company should take to make.

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And that’s a big threshold, says Blankesteijn. Because it starts with the networks that users form themselves. “It pays for what users always use what everyone else already used. If I’m going to use the BlackBerry messaging system and you do not do that then we can reach each other harder. Whatsapp For us normal users no motivation to switch and therefore I do not think it really makes sense for BlackBerry. “

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The user data will earn a hefty mass BlackBerry users should bind. But that begs the question of what the business users looking for exactly. “Maybe people who have recently switched from BlackBerry to Android or iPhone for example. And maybe those people still pining for the messaging system. It started with BlackBerry ever with the ‘ping’, there is software that Whatsapp-like a continuation of it.”

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What speaks for BlackBerry is the security of its services. “It lies in the time of Prism terribly well in the market. They have their reputation with BlackBerry. Has always been the secure service. But precisely that reputation has been bitten when she last year of their encryption key to the Indian public expenditure. I do not know why would have. they have not already done to the NSA that we in any event. know the selling points that BlackBerry has to convince us are actually nil. “

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Blackberry announced the rollout of BBM to Android and iOS7 in a blog .

The app should appear in the Play Store Google within hours and the Apple Appstore. The rollout will take place in phases. The app can be downloaded for free and after installation you are prompted for an email address. Then the user is placed in a queue, after which it will take some time before it can be.

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online messaging would be actually launched in late September, but a leaked Android version showed all the time that Blackberry was not well prepared, since the service soon no longer functioned because of the high degree of popularity.

Blackberry Messenger allows users to communicate for free with each other through various platforms. The online messaging service, also known as BBM, must be a competitor for WhatsApp.

The chat app allows users to chat in addition also send pictures and voice messages, starting group discussions and post updates. Also, each BlackBerry Messenger user a unique code that can be used. As contact information Therefore it is not necessary to exchange mobile numbers.

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