iPhone
and Android users will gain access to mobile giant BlackBerry's popular
messaging service BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for the first time this summer,
the company has announced.
More than 51 million BlackBerry users
communicate daily via BBM, one of the earliest mobile chat tools to give users
a free and private means of staying in touch over the internet.
Andrew Bocking, an Executive Vice
President at BlackBerry said in a blog post: "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.
"BBM has always been one of the
most engaging services for BlackBerry customers, enabling them to easily
connect while maintaining a valued level of personal privacy. We’re excited to
offer iOS and Android users the possibility to join the BBM community."BBM will compete with other free
messaging services already available to smartphone users running the iOS and
Android operating systems, including WhatsApp and Viber.The necessity of a personal PIN to use
BBM, supplied with BlackBerry's phones and shared only with contacts with whom
users wish to communicate, is one of BlackBerry smartphones' most attractive
aspects
Mr Bocking's comments may imply the BBM
PIN will remain a feature in the apps now being developed for iOS and Android.
iOS 6, the operating system run by
iPhone and iPad, and Android's Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone software will be
the first to run the free app, according to the Business Insider website
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