TECH: BBM Finally Arrives for Windows Phone users [2014 ]

Sometime ago we wrote a post on BBM comming to
windows phone store, and finally they have come up
with their word. It was planned that BBM should be
on the windows store by july, but this time the Beta
Version of BBM hasn’t been released, which means
that we cannot download the application.

BBM – also known as BlackBerry Messenger – is a
messaging client included on BlackBerry devices. It
allows people to chat and place video calls, among
other things. BlackBerry released the service as an
app for Android and iOS devices last year, and it said
BBM would also eventually release for Lumia
handsets.

The exact date was never revealed however, with
BlackBerry only committing to a broad time scale
between May and July. On 8 July, BlackBerry
launched a beta version of BBM in the Windows
Phone Store. It’s a private beta, meaning you can
only begin testing the service after you’ve received
an invitation directly from BlackBerry.
It has been noted by lot of top blogs that it
shouldn’t take very long for the company to open
BBM to all Windows Phone users and
FlowingTechBlog agrees with that. 

It was also made
known that, BBM has more than 80 million monthly
users – and BlackBerry views the service as a crucial
asset to the company portfolio.

John Chen, the chief executive at BlackBerry, told
analysts last year, for instance, that BlackBerry might
even consider charging users on a monthly rate, or
something similar, as long as enterprise users
adopted BBM as a messaging client. With Facebook
buying messaging apps like WhatsApp for $19
billion, Chen has clearly realised that BlackBerry is
sitting on a potential cash cow.
But for now, BlackBerry still needs to work on
boosting BBM’s monthly active user numbers. It’s
therefore pushing out the BBM for Windows beta
and getting ready to welcome Windows Phone users
to the BBM community.