That was quick!
BBM 2.0 is now out since
Thursday February 13th 2014, just in time for Valentine’s Day! The new
update BBM 2.0 is also on both the
Google
Play Store and the Apple iTunes Store.
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With it comes Free Voice Calling, allowing members of the “In” Crowd on
Apple iOS and Google Android that have BBM (Blackberry Messenger) installed to
talk to each other and Blackberry 10 users as reported in “BlackBerry
Boosts Its Messenger With Voice Calling, Location-Sharing”, published
2/13/2014 @ 5:59PM by Parmy Olson, Forbes
and “BBM
iOS, Android users can soon make free phone calls”, published February 13,
2014 8:43 AM PST by Lance Whitney, CNET News.
To be specific, BBM 2.0 comes
with the following Features:
1.
BBM Voice, a new service
that allows you to make Voice Calls over Wi-Fi and Data Connection (Cool!)
2.
BBM Channels a series
of Discussion Groups reminiscent of Facebook Groups with specific Topic of
discussion. Join in!
3.
BBM
Groups, a feature that allows you to share pictures and text with a select
group of 50, somewhat like Google+ via a DropBox Integration
4.
Glympse,
a new feature that allows you to share your location (why I don't know) for
fixed periods at a time. Reminds me of Foursquare but with an ON/OFF Button!
All Apple iOS, Google Android and Blackberry OS 10 smartphone users get
this in their updates; Blackberry 5 OS and higher will get the update too sans BBM
Groups and Glympse.
That’s still not a bad deal, as you can now effectively talk for Free if
you have BBM!
Those still toting a Blackberry must be happy they stuck it out and didn’t
chuck away their device after company went bust as reported in my Geezam blog article entitled “Blackberry
sold to Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited as BBM goes free”.
BBM now with Voice and Dropbox
Integration – WhatsApp being beaten for sure
To be honest, when I heard that BBM (Blackberry Messenger) was coming to
Android and Apple iOS back in September 2013 as originally reported in my Geezam blog article entitled Free
Blackberry Messenger App coming to Android and iOS and my blog article
entitled “Blackberry
launched free BBM App for Apple iPhone and Android smartphones - First true
Mobile Social Network is Bob Marley Could You Be loved against WhatsApp”, I
knew Voice Calling wasn’t too far behind.
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BBM, when it was exclusively a Blackberry only Mobile Social Network, had
rolled out this feature to make free calls over Wi-Fi back in November 2012 as
stated in my blog
article entitled “RIM
introduce VoIP Calling over Wi-Fi for BB Messenger - Telecom Providers Trouble
with the Curve of Wi-Fi Calling”, a few months before Blackberry OS 10 had
been launched in January 2013.
Now with these new features are a part of BBM going forward in BBM 2.0 update, BBM is destined to
beat WhatsApp for sure as I’d predicted in my Geezam
blog article “WhatsApp
popularity fading as BBM’s the most downloaded IM App on iOS” and my blog article
entitled “Blackberry
Messenger is Most Downloaded in November 2013 and is poised to beat WhatsApp -
BBM is now on the Rising Tide of the Mobile Social Messaging Network Summer of
Love”.
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Now that Valentine’s Day is over, if you haven’t heard the news, now is
the time to get the latest updated BBM
2.0:
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