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BlackBerry’s BBM for Android and iOS adds movie talk
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Contributor, PCWorld | May Four, two thousand sixteen 7:12 AM PT
Facebook and Microsoft are pursuing the wish of messaging apps as the future of user engagement, and now BlackBerry wants in on the act too. No, BlackBerry isn’t ready to join the bot revolution, but it is adding movie calling across all platforms. BlackBerry Messenger users on Android and iOS can now attempt out BBM’s fresh movie talk feature, called BBM Movie, presently in beta.
BBM Movie on Android.
The catch? You need to live in the U.S. or Canada and be running Android KitKat Four.Four and higher, or iOS eight and higher. The rest of the world will get BBM movie messaging when the feature rolls out in July.
BBM Movie is pretty straightforward. Just tap the movie calling button, and as long as the person on the other end also has the feature enabled you’ll be able to talk. BBM movie talk is a cross-platform feature permitting Android users to talk with iOS users, and, presumably, BlackBerry ten users.
BlackBerry added voice calling to BBM for Android and iOS in 2014.
The story behind the story: With BlackBerry ten device sales fighting, the company’s best hope for mobile relevance is to do something similar to Microsoft. Namely, bring services like BBM to challenging mobile platforms. BlackBerry also emerges to be converting into an Android device company. There are no apparent plans to produce a BlackBerry ten device in 2016. Meantime, BlackBerry CEO John Chen recently said the company would produce two mid-range Android phones in 2016.
Download the latest version of BBM from Google Play and the App Store to give the fresh movie talk feature a attempt.
Ian is an independent writer based in Israel who has never met a tech subject he didn’t like. He primarily covers Windows, PC and gaming hardware, movie and music streaming services, social networks, and browsers. When he’s not covering the news he’s working on how-to tips for PC users, or tuning his eGPU setup.
BlackBerry s BBM for Android and iOS adds movie talk, PCWorld
BlackBerry’s BBM for Android and iOS adds movie talk
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Contributor, PCWorld | May Four, two thousand sixteen 7:12 AM PT
Facebook and Microsoft are pursuing the wish of messaging apps as the future of user engagement, and now BlackBerry wants in on the activity too. No, BlackBerry isn’t ready to join the bot revolution, but it is adding movie calling across all platforms. BlackBerry Messenger users on Android and iOS can now attempt out BBM’s fresh movie talk feature, called BBM Movie, presently in beta.
BBM Movie on Android.
The catch? You need to live in the U.S. or Canada and be running Android KitKat Four.Four and higher, or iOS eight and higher. The rest of the world will get BBM movie messaging when the feature rolls out in July.
BBM Movie is pretty straightforward. Just tap the movie calling button, and as long as the person on the other end also has the feature enabled you’ll be able to talk. BBM movie talk is a cross-platform feature permitting Android users to talk with iOS users, and, presumably, BlackBerry ten users.
BlackBerry added voice calling to BBM for Android and iOS in 2014.
The story behind the story: With BlackBerry ten device sales fighting, the company’s best hope for mobile relevance is to do something similar to Microsoft. Namely, bring services like BBM to challenging mobile platforms. BlackBerry also emerges to be converting into an Android device company. There are no apparent plans to produce a BlackBerry ten device in 2016. Meantime, BlackBerry CEO John Chen recently said the company would produce two mid-range Android phones in 2016.
Download the latest version of BBM from Google Play and the App Store to give the fresh movie talk feature a attempt.
Ian is an independent writer based in Israel who has never met a tech subject he didn’t like. He primarily covers Windows, PC and gaming hardware, movie and music streaming services, social networks, and browsers. When he’s not covering the news he’s working on how-to tips for PC users, or tuning his eGPU setup.