Blackberry Messenger for Android

[perksie]

Well it's now 5.20pm on Saturday 21st September, and there is no sign of this yet?

Fair warning there are about 20 apps in the Google Play store all of which are fakes and at best will flood your phone with adverts.

[perksie]

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@jonsie wrote:

So I have stock messaging, 3 email addresses, Skype, Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Circle, Messanger and Line, do I really need another app?

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Of course you do...........go for it! 

Seriously I'm just going to give it a trial, if it seems good I'll get rid of something else.

[jonsie]

So.........what the heck, gone for it!

Hmmn...seems I'm in a queue after entering my email address!

[perksie]

Installed and connected probably because I registered on their site.

My phone has turned into a Blackberry, is this a problem?

I had the same window, put in a new email address (not the one I registered with) went through the set up, so I now have another half a dozen bits of log in stuff, and it's now all working.

[Anonymous]

I had the email last night from BBM saying I could now download the BBM messenger app.

I followed the link & got " This app is not compatible with your device "

[jonsie]

Must be a long waiting line, still had no email to say I'm at the front of the queue. I'm devastated!:smileysad:

[perksie]

That's weird jonsie, I also sent you an invitation thinking it might speed up any delay for you.

They must be under a deluge of downloads.......

[MI5]

Nothing moving here either 😞

[aldaweb]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I had the email last night from BBM saying I could now download the BBM messenger app.

I followed the link & got " This app is not compatible with your device "

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What Android version are you on. You need to be on 4.0 or above.

[Anonymous]

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@aldaweb wrote:

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What Android version are you on. You need to be on 4.0 or above.

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Im currently running Android Gingerbread 2.3.4 so I can use the BBC I Player mobile app due to the unique way the BBC is funded there is a known issue for Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc & Arc S running ICS 4.0.3 & 4.0.4 that BBC & Adobe are STILL trying to fix.

Did have a comment from BBC team saying it's still being worked on but I dont really believe them.

As for BBM im not really bothered to be honest as I get free text's anyway & so does SHMBO.

[jonsie]

Well, finally all set up on BBM and 'chatted' with a fellow member of the community. Big problem is that I don't know anyone else on BBM! There doesn't seem to be a way of searching your contacts either.

At the moment I fail to see what this app can do that Whatsapp doesn't do already so I will stick with it a week to see if battery performance is affected and then if I find no use for it I will simply uninstall it