BlackBerry
has announced that its BlackBerry Messenger apps for Android and iOS
have already been downloaded over 10 million times.
BlackBerry re-launched the Android and
iOS apps yesterday, after problems with a rogue version of the Android
app forced BlackBerry to suspend the rollout for almost a month.
Despite this initial huccup, however,
BlackBerry claims that yesterday was one of the best single-day openings
for a mobile app ever.
BBM quickly rose through the rankings on
the App Store to become the number one free app in more than 75
countries in the first 24 hours, including the US, Canada, the UK,
Indonesia and most of the Middle East, according to BlackBerry.
User ratings in both the App Store and
Google Play are also overwhelmingly positive, earning BBM 60,000
five-star reviews on Google Play from about 87,000 reviews.
“The mobile messaging market is full of
opportunity for BBM,” said Andrew Bocking, Executive Vice President, BBM
at BlackBerry. “We intend to be the leading private social network for
everyone who needs the immediate communication and collaboration of
instant messaging combined with the privacy, control and reliability
delivered through BBM.”
Previously exclusive to BlackBerry
smartphones, BBM is now available as a free download in Google Play and
the App Store. Android smartphones must be running Ice Cream Sandwich
and Jelly Bean (Android 4.x) and iPhones must be running iOS 6 and iOS
7. Customers can download BBM by visiting www.BBM.com from their
smartphone browser.
Android and iPhone users who download
the BBM app will be able to carry out both one-on-one and group text
chats, and share files such as photos and voice notes instantly. They
will also be able to send a message to all of their BBM contacts in one
go using the ‘Broadcast Message’ function.
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