{"id":49209,"date":"2013-09-03T23:36:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T21:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=49209"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:12:26","slug":"blackberry-messenger-for-android-gets-shown-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/blackberry-messenger-for-android-gets-shown-on-video\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Messenger for Android gets shown on video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We already knew that <a title=\"BBM for BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/blackberry-messenger.en.softonic.com\/blackberry\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlackBerry Messenger<\/a> was coming to <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> and <a title=\"iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/ios\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> some time <a title=\"BlackBerry BBM coming to Android and iOS this summer\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/blackberry-bbm-coming-to-android-and-ios-this-summer\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this summer<\/a> but we haven&#8217;t seen anything more than mockups of the app. Today, a video has leaked online of someone from BlackBerryOS.com demonstrating BBM for Android on video.<\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry Messenger will be going up against some stiff competition from major players like <a title=\"Facebook Messenger\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/facebook-messenger\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Messenger<\/a>, <a title=\"Whatsapp\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/whatsapp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whatsapp<\/a>, <a title=\"Viber\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/viber\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Viber<\/a>, <a title=\"Google Hangouts\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/hangouts\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Hangouts<\/a>, and many more. BlackBerry has done their best to replicate the functionality and interface of its BlackBerry Messenger app on its <a title=\"What's new in BlackBerry 10? (video)\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/whats-new-in-blackberry-10-video\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Z10<\/a> device. This is good for BlackBerry users moving to Android and terrible for Android users who are using BBM for the first time. On the features side of things, the app supports NFC abilities, free chat over data, and read receipts.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that BlackBerry is nearing its targeted release date by the end of this summer. With summer&#8217;s end quickly approaching, Android and iOS users could be seeing BBM on their devices very soon.<\/p>\n<h4>Source: <a title=\"Android Police\" href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/bbm-android-demoed-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android Police<\/a> | <a title=\"BlackBerryOS.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberryos.com\/content\/first-look-bbm-android-video-6545\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlackBerryOS.com<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We already knew that BlackBerry Messenger was coming to Android and iOS some time this summer but we haven&#8217;t seen anything more than mockups of the app. Today, a video has leaked online of someone from BlackBerryOS.com demonstrating BBM for Android on video. BlackBerry Messenger will be going up against some stiff competition from major &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/blackberry-messenger-for-android-gets-shown-on-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BlackBerry Messenger for Android gets shown on video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":49213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-49209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332311,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49209\/revisions\/332311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49209"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=49209"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=49209"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=49209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}