BlackBerry has finally began rolling out its much-awaited BBM app on both Android and iOS platforms. BBM for Android as well as iOS is now available. The app’s release comes nearly a month after it was first supposed to hit the App Stores.
In a blog post announcing the rollout, Andrew Bocking, Head of BBM at BlackBerry said that about six million people had signed up on BlackBerry’s website to receive information about BBM. These people, in turn, have become the first ones to get access to the application.
In a blog post announcing the rollout, Andrew Bocking, Head of BBM at BlackBerry said that about six million people had signed up on BlackBerry’s website to receive information about BBM. These people, in turn, have become the first ones to get access to the application.
It's finally here
“If you are among the millions that took the time to sign up at BBM.com, you can start using BBM immediately without waiting in line,” he writes. If you did sign on, you should have received an email by BlackBerry, asking to download the application. If you didn’t sign up, you can still do so as BlackBerry says it is trying hard to move the app to millions of more users.
Bocking has also mentioned in his post that Samsung customers in Sub-Sahara Africa can download BBM today from the Samsung Apps store. iPhone and other Android users in Africa will be able to download the app in three days time.
To jog your memory, BlackBerry Messenger for Android and iOS was supposed to roll out last month but the global launch was paused midway when the company started to encounter issues. These were caused by about 1 million over-enthusiastic Android users installing an unreleased version of the app. Only a handful of countries had managed to get BBM for iOS before it was yanked out of the Apple App Store too.
Still troublesome
More beta tests on Android were run before the release of the app. However, we’re still encountering issues in trying to get on to using the application. While the app keeps saying that the device is not connected to a wireless network even when it is, we’ve faced several hiccups on the sign-up screen that refuse to go away, despite getting in line on the BlackBerry website months ago.
To see if the cross-platform messaging app is working on your iDevice or Android phone, you can download BBM for iOS and BBM for Android from the respective app stores.
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