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Forgive me, for I know little in the ways of BlackBerrys, but: what's so great about BBM? Why is it so much better then SMS/Google Voice/IM with push/Facebook C
by rufo 16y ago
Forgive me, for I know little in the ways of BlackBerrys, but: what's so great about BBM? Why is it so much better then SMS/Google Voice/IM with push/Facebook Chat that people go out of their way to purchase BlackBerry devices?
- dzlobin 16y agoIts a pretty fantastic chat tool. It provides message status (read/delivered), an easy way to transfer contacts, photos and videos right in the IM and it let's you create groups. Groups share all the aforementioned benefits as well as group chat, shared calendars, lists and photos.
- unexpected 16y agoThere are three advantages to BBM that i love: (on blackberry devices, don't know how they'll be on other platforms 1) BBM is essentially a text message that is free. This is handy when you're oversees (business execs) for example. You can be in Taiwan and shoot a BBM to your partner in SF without having to worry about some ridiculous charge. 2) Read Notification - BBM will tell you when your message has been read or not (as opposed to text messages) 3) Group Chat - BBM does this really well - very easy to text and have conversations with multiple people.
- gaius 16y ago4) BBM barcodes for contacts/groups The "killer feature" of BBM tho' isn't any one thing, it's just that it's an incredibly polished, seamless experience, I have on my BB the Y!, MSN and Google clients and they are just clunky as hell compared to BBM. It's an absolute joy to use.
- jlgosse 16y agoThe barcode scanning is extremely flaky in my opinion, and in my experience will work on some devices and not on others.
- joelhaasnoot 16y agoDon't know much about BBM, but do know I constantly see friends on facebook passing around their BBM PIN. Assume it's some sort of unique ID, but that's not exactly efficient...
- tdfx 16y agoYour BBM PIN is separate from your phone number. My friends with Blackberrys have people they talk to on BBM that they don't even have phone numbers for.
- rufo 16y agoYou can be in Taiwan and shoot a BBM to your partner in SF without having to worry about some ridiculous charge. BBM uses data, right? Wouldn't there be outrageous per kilobyte charges? Or does RIM have deals in place to get around that somehow?
- pero 16y agoData on a BB is routed through RIMs servers. BB users generally aren't charged data if the track is intra-RIM. It's also compressed and encrypted.
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- brown9-2 16y agoI think unexpected is referring to ridiculous charges just for sending a text message, yes data would still apply.
- pero 16y agoNot for BBM messages.
- unexpected 16y agoI've used BBM a lot overseas, but have never been charged an "international data" rate. So I would speculate that somehow it's avoided.
- uniclaude 16y agoIt's already included with their BlackBerrys, so the integration is seamless for everyone, tech-savvy or not. BlackBerry users just have to share their IDs, no installation required is a very nice feature. As you know, blackberry owners are not really big app installers [1]. As some guy would say : "It just works". [1]: http://moconews.net/article/419-average-number-of-apps-downloaded-to-iphone-40-android-25/ http://moconews.net/article/419-average-number-of-apps-downl...