BlackBerry announces BBM for iPhone and Android

Deal yet to be approved by Apple and Google.


Web Desk May 15, 2013
PHOTO: AFP/FILE

BlackBerry announced on Tuesday that its BlackBerry messaging system (BBM) will be coming to iOS and Android this summer, Huffington Post reported.

“For BlackBerry, messaging and collaboration are inseparable from the mobile experience, and the time is definitely right for BBM to become a multi-platform mobile service," said Andrew Bocking, an executive vice president at BlackBerry.

Bocking added that he wants to "offer iOS and Android users the possibility to join the BBM community.”

The arrangement has yet to be approved by Google and Apple. If it goes through, however, a free BBM app will be available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play, according to BlackBerry representatives.

COMMENTS (5)

1984 | 11 years ago | Reply

I'm an Iphone user and all my friends are android users...

Can anyone enlighten me why the BBM is so popular??? Does it have anything which is missing in Whatsapp and Viber????

Khloé | 11 years ago | Reply

I think this is great because I have an iphone and lots of my friends have blackberry s so it would be so much easier to keep in touch with them so I hope this get approved :)

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