It all started when my phone started getting slow and I decided
to do away with some of my apps knowing fully well that I am a game lover, I pigheadedly
started with my other apps leaving my games even those ones I was already done
with. I uninstalled my medical dictionary, bank mobile app and was about to
delete Badoo when I mistakenly uninstalled my BBM. Gosh, I was like….. all my unanswered
messages lost plus the data I would wait having to re-download it again. So I headed
over to goggle play and searched for the app. To my greatest surprise, the app I
earlier downloaded for 12.67MB was now going for 21.56MB. woah, then I went on
to investigate and that was when I found the cause of the hike in size.
The blackberry app for android on the playstore and appstore
for the apple users was
upgraded to come with new emoticons/emojis. And when I mean
new emoticons, I am not saying about 20 but like 100 new emoticons for bbm
users to express their feeling to their friends and loved ones on the
blackberry messenger platform.
Another very interesting feature of the new app is that you
can now skype *sorry* BBM with other BBM version 2 users. Okay when I said BBM,
I didn’t mean the traditional type chatting you all do with the blackberry
messengers. I meant you can actually place free voice calls to other
android/iphone BBM users free using a wifi connection or your data bundle. Imagine
calling your friends with zero credit using just data bundle. That’s smashing
great.
Onto the next. Packed into the new BBM is the Glympse
software which enables users share their location with friends. This means just
as google maps show location/check-in on G+, you can actually search your
location anywhere on planet earth and send as an attachment to your friend. So
cheating spouses beware. Blackberry don bring out red eye for una.
Also you can integrate your dropbox app with the BBM so you
get you pics and files stored on them easily to your friends and also save
files from your friends easily on your dropbox. Cloud computing on your mobile
device powered by BM in conjunction with Dropbox.
BBM channels. I know most Nigerians are not into BBM
channels but for those who are or for new converts, BBM channels allows users
chat with other users about topics of common interest. Users can join channels
and be involved in a whole range of topics which are available to the users
from sports to entertainment.
And finally the new BBM comes with an extended count of BBM group’s
members. With the new BBM you can have up to 50 members in a group so you can
get more of your friends and families to join into discussions that concern you
all.
Okay with all these said I think BBM has tried for you all. I
don’t have much to say because BBM has blown me off keyboard. It’s my brother
that types at the moment. LOL. See y’all later.
Any problems with the new BBM? Post your problems with the
app if any in the comment box below to get immediate attention on them.
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