What is Reddit's opinion of BBM - Free Calls & Messages?

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It is an Android phone. Blackberry OS is dead. Many phones have a superior camera. BBM is available on the Google play Store for all Android phones. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bbm

The only thing it had going for it is they keyboard.

Blackberry is done making hardware. They are just throwing there Android version on other manufacturer's phones now, like the DTEK60.

The only phones running Blackberry 10 OS are the Passport, classic and Leap.

Install the bbm messenger from google play and send me ur bbm pin number. I'll add u. if u need more details on how to install BBM. This will help (http://helpblog.blackberry.com/2013/10/getting-started-with-bbm-on-android-and-iphone/)

You can install BBM on your Andriod from here (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bbm&hl=en)

P.S: Let me know when u are done with BBM aacount and send me your BBM PIN number. I'll add you :)

Not to be that guy but what about BBM? It has a few hundred million installs (100,000,000 - 500,000,000), 6.4 million reviews (that's 5x the number of ratings and installs as Telegram) at a very respectable 4.3 avg star rating.. It's fully cross-platform, and heck, it even beat some of the major players on getting to the Apple Watch. (it's on Windows Phone and obviously BB10 as well).

I know there's a lot of general hate for BlackBerry here, but BBM is actually pretty damn good. You don't have to link your phone number, you get a unique PIN that you can give to people.. Or add via an email address. You can say add someone from say craigslist for example to message them and then remove/block them (I hate giving out my phone number to random strangers, they can be psycho and blocking phone numbers isn't very easy without a 3rd party app). Best of yet, you don't need a phone number to verify the phone.. So those who don't have a phone number (some people have smartphone that just work on WiFi and have no number attached to it) work just fine.

It looks great (material design), It has read/write receipts, groups, data voice chat (very clear sound), PayPal integration (can send friends money very easily from within the app), Glympse integration (to send moving GPS location to friends for x amount of time, nice when telling a friend I am heading over and they can actually see on a map exactly where I am and how far away I am), timed messages (snapchat-like functionality, can send pictures/messages for x number of seconds that vanish afterwards), Ability to edit/retract messages (if you send a message to the wrong person or screw up a message, you can pull it back or edit it and resend it to that person), I mean it really has a lot of useful features..

And best of all, BlackBerry is putting all of it's eggs into the Android basket with the Priv. A phone running stock Android for the most part. And this is great because they are just going to focus their efforts on their Android and iOS software with their productivity suite from here-on-out (BBM being one of their main BlackBerry Experience Apps) so they are an honest contender.

Oh, and it's free. Unlike the $1/yr or whatever WhatsApp charges (but never actually charges anyone) or whatever the hell is going on with that.. lol

I personally use BBM and Whatsapp (whatsapp for those that just don't want to download BBM), but honestly, most people who don't want to try it say so just because "it's BlackBerry". But it's actually a damn good messaging platform so it's kinda disappointing.

You do know that BBM is available for any iPhone as well as for Android, right?

Can't tell if you're joking or not, but in case you're not, BBM for Android is at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bbm

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bbm&hl=en

yep.