BBM for Android, iPhone available this week

joelus said:
I suspect you're wrong anyway.
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ronald911 said:
Sorry, but you are wrong!
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I could be wrong about the PIN being done away with, but I'm pretty confident that unlike before it is not the only way to connect to other BBM users anymore. It is also not linked to the device.

So (it would seem) the PIN remains, but you can also use SMS, BlackBerry ID, or email to send someone an invite. My bad!

Also: no need to spam out your PIN when you drop your phone in the toilet because your contacts are linked to your BB ID, not your device.
 
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ronald911 said:
Sorry, but you are wrong!

BBM for Android and iPhone features:
BBM Chat – Enjoy real, immediate conversations with friends on Android, iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones. Not only does BBM let you know that your message has been delivered and read, it also shows you that your friend is responding to the message.

More than chat – With BBM you can share files on your phone such as photos and voice notes, all in an instant.


Keep your group in the loop – Multi-person chats are a great way to invite contacts to chat together. BBM Groups lets you invite up to 30 friends to chat together, and go a step further than multi-chat by sharing photos and schedules. And, with Broadcast Message, you can send a message out to all your BBM contacts at once.

Post Updates and stay in the know – BBM lets you post a personal message, profile picture and your current status, and lets your contacts know instantly in Updates.

Your unique PIN – Every BBM user has a unique PIN that maintains your privacy, so you don’t have to give out your phone number or email address to a new or casual contact.

http://blogs.blackberry.com/2013/09/bbm-for-android-iphone/?CPID=SOC_C_WW_TW1379525489
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I think what they mean is that you wont have to use the PIN.

People can add you with your email address. (ie Your BB ID)
 
So is there a link yet to it in the Play Store, cos all I am seeing is a bunch of fake apps.

NVM... pays to actually read the article! :D


Yeah... but what's up with all the fake apps... that's gonna confuse a whole lot of ppl!
 
joelus said:
If this is true, they've killed the only advantage BBM had over the other IM's.
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Bbm requires that you accept a contact before they can even see your status or profile pics or communicate in any way so even if it was true it would have still had better privacy than whatsapp.Glad to see the option of a pin is still there.
 
ghoti said:
People do not use IE for technical, performance and security issues. Could you let me know what technical, performance or security issues there will be with bbm?
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cool.
performancer let start there.
send a whats app, to the guy next to you with an android, the guy on your other side with a windows phone, the guy behind them with an iphone then to the last person left with a BB.
what happens? 5 to 10 minutes after every one else the guy with the BB gets the whats app.

Technical:
having BBM on other echo systems will be the same as Microsoft giving support for IE 7, it creates this idea in peoples heads that the product is good/atually works when it does not, because lets face it you know BBM does not work, a profile picture gets updated and you never see it, a status gets added that is 4 days old but all of a sudden you see it out of the blue as a new one. and dont make me go on because I have never owned a BB, just needed to fix problems like these for users in the office.


Security:
I will give you that one, that is exactly why the US department of defense still has a agreement with BB and all staff members have BB, oh, wait that went away end of last year....
seriously though I cant fault the built in security in BB, because I have never used it, but much like Mxit and FB, there will be people who give out the pins and contact details freely and meet perverts and what not but that is a user issue not a security flaw.
 
Baxteen said:
cool.
performancer let start there.
send a whats app, to the guy next to you with an android, the guy on your other side with a windows phone, the guy behind them with an iphone then to the last person left with a BB.
what happens? 5 to 10 minutes after every one else the guy with the BB gets the whats app.
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Were talking about BBM here not whatsapp,stop comparing whatsapp delivery times to judge BBM delivery times.Maybe after its released you can do a proper comparison right now your point is rubbish and is not factually related to BBM in any way.You seem to be misplacing your dislike for Blackberry as a phone manufacturer and specifically the old ones with a slower congested BIS connection (which was probably why the messages took a few seconds longer to come through)onto BBM as a social messaging platform.

Technical:
having BBM on other echo systems will be the same as Microsoft giving support for IE 7, it creates this idea in peoples heads that the product is good/atually works when it does not, because lets face it you know BBM does not work, a profile picture gets updated and you never see it, a status gets added that is 4 days old but all of a sudden you see it out of the blue as a new one. and dont make me go on because I have never owned a BB, just needed to fix problems like these for users in the office.
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The fact that you have never owned a BB makes your point very weak,I have owned several BB's and still own a blackberry z10 device,I don't have any issues like this.My wife has a bb also,yes she has experienced that problem once in the last five years.I do however know for a fact that whatsapp sometimes doesn't send messages through even though it shows them as delivered,both are minor glitches in systems that carry literally billions of messages a day so we can let it slide for both.Its a tie.So negligible point.


Security:
I will give you that one, that is exactly why the US department of defense still has a agreement with BB and all staff members have BB, oh, wait that went away end of last year....
seriously though I cant fault the built in security in BB, because I have never used it, but much like Mxit and FB, there will be people who give out the pins and contact details freely and meet perverts and what not but that is a user issue not a security flaw.
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The agreement is just no longer exclusive since android and ios security has now been approved,that doesn't mean that blackberries security has faltered it just means the others have caught up.It still is probably much more secure than whatsapp.
 
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...aaand already there's a host of bullschit BBM apps on Android, released today. Can you ****ing believe that. I am all for a more rigorous vetting system for the Play Store. There are so many outright fake apps there.
 
Just bloody wait till the date it's supposed to be released on! I.e. the 21st. Probably Only the 22nd for us.
 
I thought they'd launch it at midnight. Guess I can sleep still.
 
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