Happy you if you’re participating in the BlackBerry Beta Zone. If you’re signed up to the BBM program, log in to your account and grab the latest version 5.0.1.32 which has been posted for download. If you’re having problems with BBM lately you should try it, it might make things work a little better. I’m hoping to see the release through BlackBerry App World soon since my country (Germany) is not even available for taking part in the Beta Zone.
So make sure to let me know in the comments if your BBM is performing better (or worse) and what’s new and how it works.
In the midst of tough time for RIM (everyone bashing them for being so slow to change and what changes they do make are slight and very minor), it’s very nice to see them harvesting the one thing that truly sets them apart from everything else, BlackBerry Messenger. More widely known as BBM, this is the one thing that has kept many users with their original smartphone platform and brought many new users to the platform over the past few years.
From the video, it’s obvious that BlackBerry users love their BBM, and love the features that only BBM offers, like being able to see when someone has read your message and simply not replied. No other platform has their very own messaging service. Android comes close with Gtalk, but Gtalk just isn’t the same.
The one question I have to ask though, is will RIM alter BBM in BlackBerry 6 at all, or will they make the mistake of letting something that people love now wither to something they will hate, before they make anymore changes to it? That’s exactly what they have done with their OS, BBM in the past, and their device form factor. Sure, when RIM started, everything was fine and dandy. They progressed, kickstarted the smartphone industry, and kept their basic form factor for over ten years. Now that times are changing rapidly, RIM is having a hard time adapting. What I’m asking is, has RIM learned from their mistaktes? Have they learned to try to stay ahead of the curve with BBM and not let it get behind like they did everything else? One can only hope, but regardless of whether RIM has or hasn’t learned, we all love BBM and hold it dear to our hearts. Just don’t let this love grow stale, RIM. We just couldn’t bear it.
If you want to view more BlackBerry videos, you can head on over to their YouTube channel. They have BBM TV ads galore.
