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BBM for Android and iOS arrives on Saturday & Sunday

Contrary to earlier reports that Samsung Nigeria had an exclusive three month window to provide BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for Android for its users, the Canadian firm has rather wisely just announced that it’s much awaited Google-chat app will available for all from Saturday.

According to BlackBerry, BBM for Android will be available in Google’s Play store, the Apple App Store and from BlackBerry’s own web shop over the weekend. The latter site is www.bbm.com, although it’s not live yet. I suspect, from the name, that it means there’ll be a web client for BBM at some stage too.

BBM for Android will go live at 7am EDT (1pm in South Africa), while iPhone owners will have to wait until 12.01am local time on Sunday morning wherever they are to join the party that we’ll all be having without them. It will be text chat only at first, with voice and video to follow. According to BlackBerry, BBM is currently used by 60 million people worldwide, trading over a billion messages a day. By comparison, Whatsapp says it has 250million users who share more than ten times the number of posts.

Will going multiplatform allow BBM to catch up? Will its much vaunted encryption save the fruity firm’s day? Will being able to chat with your Android and iPhone buddies keep you loyal to the new Z30? Find out this time, next year in the next exciting instalment (or something).

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