{"id":90133,"date":"2013-10-24T23:11:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=90133"},"modified":"2013-10-25T09:48:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T07:48:53","slug":"new-bbm-for-android-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/90133-new-bbm-for-android-released.html","title":{"rendered":"New BBM for Android released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> announced today (24 October 2013) that it released a new version of <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> which supports more devices and includes a few bug fixes.<\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry resumed its rollout of BBM for Android and <a title=\"iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/487844-iPhone\">iPhone<\/a> customers around the globe on 21 October 2013.<\/p>\n<p>This followed a problem with the initial launch dates of BBM for Android on 21 September 2013, and BBM for iPhone on 22 September 2013.<\/p>\n<p>This time around the launch was done in a staged approach, with groups of users being brought online over the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>The new version of BBM for Android comes a day after BlackBerry launched a new version of BBM for iPhone to fix problems on iOS 7.0.3.<\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry also dismissed speculation that it is responsible for duplicate positive reviews on the <a title=\"Google Play\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/472468-Google-Play\">Google Play<\/a> store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose weird duplicate reviews of #BBM on Google Play? Definitely not our doing. Love feedback, but please keep it real, peeps,\u201d BlackBerry said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">BBM for Android, iPhone news<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"BBM for Android, iPhone \u2013 more to come\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/89795-bbm-for-android-iphone-more-to-come.html\"><strong>BBM for Android, iPhone \u2013 more to come<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"BBM for Android, iPhone arrives\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/89493-bbm-for-android-iphone-arrives.html\">BBM for Android, iPhone arrives<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry has released a new version of BBM for Android which supports more devices and fixes a few bugs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":89801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,397,101,21533,21535,1125],"class_list":["post-90133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-android","tag-bbm","tag-bbm-for-android","tag-bbm-for-iphone","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90133"}],"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=90133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90167,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90133\/revisions\/90167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}