BlackBerry Messenger Could on Android and iOS

Orlando - Thorsten Heins, Chief Executive Officer of BlackBerry, announced that starting this summer (around June), BlackBerry Messenger, an application known as BBM conversations, no longer exclusive can only be used on the Blackberry. "It's great news, the fuel can be used in all platforms, Android can be well on iOS," Heins said in an annual conference BlackBerry Live in Orlando, Florida, USA, on Tuesday morning local time.

Approximately 2,000 attendees were present at the event at the Marriott World Center was stunned when Heins expressed surprise that. A second later the room was filled with applause of the audience. No one thought that the BlackBerry finally removed the "exclusive rights" over the fuel can be used for platforms other than RIM.

Heins, who recently became CEO of RIM January 2012, describes the function as long as there is fuel in the BlackBerry can be used on iOS and Android platforms. "It's a good time for BlackBerry to advance further into multiplatform," said Heins.

Blackberry Messenger is a social networking service that is very popular among users of BlackBerry gadgets. Although many similar apps like Whatsapp, Line, Yahoo Messenger. However, the fuel has the advantage that its competitors do not possess applications. Excess it is a feature "D" (Delivered) and "Read" (It reads) that allows the sender know the message is entered and legible.

Currently, users of fuel, there were 60 million people. They send and receive more than 10 billion messages per day, twice the number of messages sent applications to other conversations.

BlackBerry Live is an annual conference held by Research in Motion (RIM), the manufacturer of BlackBerry. In this event, RIM invites hundreds of application developers, practitioners and businesses in information technology, and a Blackberry user community.

By TEMPO.CO