{"id":18847,"date":"2011-03-04T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-04T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T08:34:00","slug":"blackberry-messenger-coming-to-android-and-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/18847-blackberry-messenger-coming-to-android-and-ios.html","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Messenger coming to Android and iOS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boy Genius Report (BGR) said that &ldquo;multiple trusted sources&rdquo; told them that Research in Motion (RIM) is planning on bringing their popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2011\/03\/03\/exclusive-blackberry-messenger-will-launch-on-android-and-ios\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"instant messaging application to Android and iOS\">instant messaging application to Android and iOS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They reported that Android support is definite and expected out first, while an iOS version is expected &ldquo;at some point as well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>There are no details about pricing or launch dates, but BGR&#8217;s sources said that they&#8217;re confident an Android version will be out later this year and that RIM is still considering charging a fee for the app on other platforms.<\/p>\n<p>According to BGR, RIM is getting frustrated with applications like WhatsApp and Kik &ldquo;offering third-party experiences based on a concept RIM invented.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>BGR also reported that RIM will offer stripped down versions of the BBM experience, allowing Android and iOS users to communicate with BBM users, but not necessarily let them share photos, location, or videos.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the news that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet expected out in the coming months will be able to run Android applications.<\/p>\n<p>A video on YouTube shows someone who appears to be a RIM representative saying, &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wuuxDVTf2nw\" target=\"_blank\">We will also support Android apps<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the PlayBook&#8217;s ability to run Java virtual machines (VMs) enables it to run a version of the Dalvik VM used on Android.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/316183-BlackBerry-Messenger-coming-to-iOS-and-Android\" target=\"_self\" title=\"BlackBerry Messenger coming to Android and iOS?\"><strong>BlackBerry Messenger coming to Android and iOS?<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculation abounds that Research in Motion is bringing their popular messaging service to Android and iOS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}