BBM For Android Is Finally Live!

The BlackBerry Messenger for Google’s Android operating system is now live on Google Play. The launch of the app has been delayed by a month now after a leaked beta version was installed by over one million users, which flooded BlackBerry’s servers. BlackBerry had to put back the official launch in order to fix the glitch that arrived from it.
In order to ensure that a fiasco like last time doesn’t happen again BlackBerry has not opened the app for everyone’s use right now. The Canadian smartphone maker has come up with a queue for users to use the application. All Android users can download the BBM client onto their smartphones, but they will have to enter their email address, which would put them in the queue to use the service. Users will be informed once their turn has arrived. This would give the company time to monitor its servers and ensure that the millions of users don’t flood it all at once.


Being a free service, the BBM for Android service is in direct competition with other such apps like Line, WeChat, Whatsapp etc. When it comes to messaging apps, the competition is quite intense on the Google Play Store. BBM though is in a way a pioneer of the service and is still expected to be quite popular. The BBM for Android app is compatible only with smartphones running the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or above. The app was launched on Apple’s iOS operating system some time ago.