{"id":87206,"date":"2013-09-18T22:22:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=87206"},"modified":"2013-09-19T08:53:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T06:53:28","slug":"bbm-for-android-iphone-here-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/87206-bbm-for-android-iphone-here-this-week.html","title":{"rendered":"BBM for Android, iPhone here this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> announced that it will launch <a title=\"BBM\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/378544-BBM-Blackberry-messenger\">BBM<\/a> for <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> on 21 September 2013, and BBM for <a title=\"iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/487844-iPhone\">iPhone<\/a> will be available on 22 September 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Previously exclusive to BlackBerry smartphones, BBM will be available as a free download in Google Play and the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>Customers will also be able to download BBM by visiting www.BBM.com from their smartphone browser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith more than a billion Android, iOS, and BlackBerry smartphones in the market, and no dominant mobile messaging platform, this is absolutely the right time to bring BBM to Android and iPhone customers,\u201d said <a title=\"Andrew Bocking\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/560786-Andrew-Bocking\">Andrew Bocking<\/a>, Executive Vice President for BBM at BlackBerry.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on BBM<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"BlackBerry Messenger for Android, iOS announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/77838-blackberry-messenger-for-android-ios-announced.html\"><strong>BlackBerry Messenger for Android, iOS announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BBM coming to iPhone, Android: too late?\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/columns\/77876-bbm-coming-to-iphone-android-too-late.html\"><strong>BBM coming to iPhone, Android: too late?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBM for Android and BBM for iPhone will be available on September 21 and September 22 respectively<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[101,97,35],"class_list":["post-87206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-bbm","tag-blackberry","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87206"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87214,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87206\/revisions\/87214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}