BlackBerry Chat - BBM

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The BlackBerry messenger services are one of the most innovative chatting platforms with unique and exciting features. Blackberry messenger enables you to send and receive messages, photos and all sorts of files to your contacts on which you can also receive and send comments. Furthermore, you also have the option to exchange voice messages with your friends using the BlackBerry Messenger instant messaging application also called BBM.


Like all the other major chatting applications such as Facebook chat, Blackberry messenger also allows you to have contacts which can be sub-dived into different categories and groups. If your BlackBerry device has a camera then you can even send the pictures you take with that camera to your friends and also keep them stored in your blackberry device. For all these reasons and more the blackberry messenger app is very popular among users as it has become very easy for them to communicate and share short instant messages. Nevertheless there is lot more you can do with the blackberry messenger.

One feature that is extremely useful and very popular among users is the ability to chat with a group of people at once. The group facility is awesome and you can create as many groups as you wish and share information meant for that particular group. For instance, you can create a group which comprises of family members only and you can name the group as family, likewise you can create groups having only friends or colleagues from your workplace. You can send information meant only for a particular group for example you can send an old family photograph which you recently found in your basement to all your family members or you can send a school photograph to your old classmates and discuss how everyone has changed since then and what you have been up to since the last time you all saw each other.

You can also fix office appointments with your colleagues and discuss and share office presentations and other important meetings or business reviews. These are some of the amazing feature available on the blackberry messenger services which one should try. Another great feature of the blackberry messenger is that you do not have to sign in or sign out of the messenger like you have to do in many other services. You can stay connected as long as you are connected to your wireless network which would show all your messenger contacts who will be aware of your online status. In order to use and enjoy uninterrupted blackberry messenger services you must have the wireless service plan which is offered by your mobile service provider. The type of plans is very crucial for your messenger to function properly otherwise there can be lots of unavailable features.

Since it is operated from a mobile device, chances are that you may loose all your messenger details if your phone software is corrupted or your phone gets stolen. Apart from losing all the data you may also have to rearrange all the contacts into categories and groups which is a tedious work. Fortunately blackberry messenger services provides its users with an option of keeping the back ups of your messenger details. If your phone’s software gets corrupted or stolen then you can be assured that your messenger details are intact and you can restore them in their integrality back to the point where they were last stored. You can maintain and keep your back ups on your computer.

For those of you wanting to be discreet by not allowing notifications from messenger interrupt you in a meeting or while you are busy with other people or performing some task that requires all of your attention the designers of the BlackBerry instant message application have thought of that. This inconvenience can be avoided by making small changes in the message notification settings. You can set the message notification sound to mute and put the vibrating mode on or in case you are not busy you can set the notification tone to a tune or ringtone informing you that you have a new message. The blackberry messenger new message settings specify how you are notified of any new incoming message. You can set different notification tones for different groups which allows you to know right away and without having to look, from which group the message is coming from just by listening to the notification’s sound.

One of the major disadvantages of the blackberry messenger services is that it is accessible to only those people who have blackberry device and thus it limits its growth potential. However, there are rumors that RIM might open its BBM to other platforms such as iPhone’s iOS or Android. Its competitors like Facebook chat or Gtalk do not have this limitation and thus have a slight edge over the BBM among the smartphone users.

If you are a BlackBerry owner and you want to chat not only with your BBM friends but also with people who own other smartphones or even with people who are online on their computer a great alternative might be using the Facebook application which allows you to post your updates, read your friends’ news feeds but also chat with your Facebook friends who are online on chat. If you want to chat with even more people you can use the AIM chat application for BlackBerry which provides the ability to chat not only with AIM contacts but also with you Facebook friends and contacts from other instant messaging services and social networks.

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