BlackBerry Messenger

I've had my Blackberry Bold for just over year now and have been using this somewhat useful feature called Blackberry Messenger since I first got the phone. I didn't see the point of it to be honest when I first started using it. *What is BBM?* If you don't own a Blackberry and don't know anyone that owns one you may never have heard of Blackberry Messenger (BBM). I'm assuming you might have heard of MSN Messenger or Yahoo Messenger previously? Well BBM is basically in instant messaging service provided by Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of Blackberry, on all Blackberry mobile phone ... more

BlackBerry Messenger, BBm, is an application designed for BlackBerry smartphones. The application can be downloaded from BlackBerry App world but most modern BlackBerries should come with it pre-installed. To set up, all you have to do it enter a username and agree to the terms and conditions. On first use you have to add contacts, you can do this by asking for their BBm 'pin' which is an 8 digit pin containing numbers and letters. Every BlackBerry has it's own pin number, no two are the same. Once you've created a contact list you can start chatting! I personally like this because it doesn't ... more

Blackberry are taking the world by storm with their various mobile phones now, they have the curve, bold, storm and torch and now they have released their own version of the Apple's Ipad. Each one of these models has a piece of software on it called Blackberry Messenger (BBM for short), this software allows any Blackberry user to send free and unlimited sms/mms to any other Blackberry device, they call it Blackberry's free text service, but is it really as free as they say ? No its not, they claim that if you get your Blackberry mobile phone on a pay monthly (contract) phone then Blackberry ... more