At long last, a follow-up to the announcement that we’ve all been waiting for: BBM for iOS and BlackBerry IS on track to launch as a free app before the end of this summer, as per BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins during this mornings quarterly call update. Great news for those of us looking for one [...]

Someone, somewhere in the UK is about to be in a lot of trouble from BlackBerry. According to a tweet from T-Mobile UK (image above), the popular instant messenger known as BBM - which Thorsten announced was going cross-platform - is landing on both Android and iOS devices on June 27th. Of course, until all [...]

Arguably, the biggest news out of BlackBerry from this past BlackBerry Live conference two weeks ago was the announcement of BBM officially going cross-platform. While many wondered about the timing, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins went on the record with a statement explaining why the change of heart, ” For years people have associated the BlackBerry [...]

Among the many other announcements during today’s keynote, nothing stood out more loud and clear than finding out the future of the illustrious BlackBerry Messenger. Thorsten spoke about some very key stats on the social messaging app, including the fact more than 20 billion messages are sent out daily, and further, most messages are read within [...]

Google’s current messaging service is a bit of a mess: it is spread out over Google Talk, Hangouts, Gmail, Google+ Messenger, and Drive in different variations, none of which work together, and there’s no easy way that I know of to start a conversation on mobile. It sounds like that is all about to change, [...]

Still hanging on to your older BlackBerry OS 5 device? Good news for you, as BBM 7.0.1 has arrived on BlackBerry World, bringing support for BlackBerry’s new BBM Voice WiFi calling feature. Originally launched in December for OS 6, BBM Voice allows BBM users to make free voice calls to their contacts using a WiFi [...]

Please note: this review is co-written by Corey Herscu The last few years have been tumultuous for BlackBerry, to say the least. In 2007, the company was blind-sighted by the introduction of Apple’s iPhone, which singlehandedly redefined how the world would think about mobile phones for years to come. BlackBerry (née Research In Motion) had [...]

Research In Motion launched BBM 7 today, the latest version of their popular messaging application. The update, which has been available as a public beta since early November, includes the new BBM Voice feature, which allows users to make free voice calls with their BBM contacts over WiFi. BBM Voice works exactly like regular voice [...]

The Facebook for BlackBerry app was updated to version 3.3 today, which adds a bunch of new features! The biggest change is increased BBM integration. Users can now add their Facebook friends to BBM and even start a BBM chat right in the app. There is also a new option within the app to display [...]

CrackBerry has discovered evidence that RIM may be planning a video chat feature for BlackBerry 10 called “BBM Video” that would rival Microsoft’s Skype and Apple’s FaceTime. When browsing through notification sounds in the latest BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha software, CrackBerry’s Adam Zeis discovered a folder called “bbm_video” which contains a “video_chat.m4a” file. Not a [...]