BBM for Android and iOS Officially available

Smartphone company Blacberry relaunched their Blackberry Messenger or BBM after the launch was delayed a month ago due to some issues. They released the BBM in a phased manner then. The app was launched for iOS and Android on Monday and was download 5 million times within 8 hours which was announced in a twitter post.

To install BBM you can directly go to their website www.bbm.com or you go to respective stores for Android go to Google Play and for iOS(iPhone) you can go to iTunes and download it.

When you install the app it asks you for email address and then after few days Blackberry will contact you for approval of the account to start messaging. This doesn't apply to those people who have already signed up at BBM.com which were about 6 million, they get to use the facility immediately.

BBM for Android is specified only for devices running Android 4.0 or above and also few devices are not compatible for the app. For iOS it is only available for the iPhone. Blackberry is yet to release the app for Windows and other Apple products.

Blackberry sold for $4.7 Billion

The Canadian telecommunication and wireless equipment company Blackberry which is popular for their business phones had a deal with a Canadian firm Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd owned by an Indian Billionare V. Prem Watsa for $4.7 Billion.

Both the companies announced it on 23rd September.BlackBerry announced that a letter of intent has been signed and its shareholders will receive $9 in cash for each share.

Blackberry announced that they have signed it but they are open to other offers till 4th November. Firefax already holds 10% of Blackberry.

Blackberry also recently announced their BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for Anroid and IOS.