Say what you will about BlackBerry's
viability as a company, but the Canadian smartphone firm's messaging app
is quickly shaping up into a powerful client. Today, BB announced that
BBM 2.0 for Android is out now, and it adds a whole lotta stuff to the app's growing feature resume.
Of most interest to users is probably BBM Voice, which is exactly
what it sounds like - you can now call BBM contacts directly from the
app (still no video chat, though). This isn't a VoIP technology, though,
so you can only call other BBM users. Still, a nifty way to save
minutes if you've got friends you talk to regularly on BBM, particularly
those in foreign lands.
BBM Channels is the other banner feature of the new update, which
kind of vaguely sounds like a sort of community feature. You can "join
conversations happening now with BBM users, brands, businesses,
communities and more." The way BlackBerry describes it in the press
release, Channels are basically permanent conversations that have
"owners" - the owner of the channel can choose who gets to post to the
channel, what hours posting is allowed, and moderate most aspects of the
conversation. There's even analytics. Subscribers to channels don't
have to share any personal info with the channel, either, so everything
can be anonymous. BlackBerry's use cases are for brands and businesses
communicating with customers. It all kind of sounds like they're trying
to turn BBM into a sort of quasi-social network, which I guess is fine.
Sharing features also received a big boost, you can now add photos,
voice notes, and directly attach files to BBM chats, and the app
includes native Dropbox support. Neat. Location sharing been added as
well, and is powered by Glympse. Finally, there are over 100 new
emoticons, and BBM Groups now support up to 50 people, making it a
pretty legit communication tool for small businesses or other groups.
Of course, the fact that BBM is a totally closed system that doesn't
integrate with SMS/MMS or VoIP functionality still makes it a less than
ideal choice for many, but hey, it's an option, and it's racked up over
10,000,000 downloads on Google Play to date. It could be worth checking
out if some of these new features really strike your fancy. Hit up the
link to press release below, it has even more info about the new version
of the app.
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