BBM on android and ios

Over ten million downloads for BBM for Android, iPhone in a day: Blackberry

Canadian handset maker BlackBerry said its popular chat application BBM for rival Android-based handsets and iPhones has witnessed over 10 million downloads in the first 24 hours of its re-launch

New York:Canadian handset maker BlackBerrysaid its popular chat application BBM for rival Android-basedhandsets and iPhones has witnessed over 10 million downloadsin the first 24 hours of its re-launch.

The struggling smartphone maker had yesterday resumed therollout of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).

"It's been 24 hours since we resumed the launch of BBMfor Android and iPhone. And what a day it's been! We'vealready had more than 10 million downloads of BBM," BlackBerryEVP (BBM) Andrew Bocking said in a post on the company'sofficial blog.

In September, BlackBerry had paused the global rollout ofits instant messaging service BBM on rival phones, blaming thedelay on issues caused by an unreleased old version of BBM(BlackBerry Messenger).

"When we saw almost one million people install anunreleased version of the Android version, another million useworkarounds to download BBM onto their iPhones and another sixmillion people pre-register to know when BBM became availablefor iPhone and Android, we knew we were on to something huge,"he noted.

The application has also seen 'overwhelmingly positivereviews' on Google Play and the App Store. BBM has earned60,000 five-star reviews on Google Play from about 87,000reviews, he added.

On Apple's App Store, BBM rose quickly in the free apprankings in the first 24 hours, taking the number one slot inmore than 75 countries, including the US, Canada, the UK,Indonesia and most of the Middle East, Bocking said.

BlackBerry said it will add more new features to BBM topromote it as the private social network."While we're excited to bring BBM to iPhone and Android -we aren't stopping there. Work isn't slowing down at all. Wecommitted to delivering a BBM experience on iPhone and Android that was equal to that on BlackBerry 10. That means bringingBBM Video, BBM Voice and BBM Channels..."My team is still committed to bringing those features toBBM on Android and iPhone in the near....