popular BlackBerry messaging service, one of the main attractions of the Canadian smartphones, is about to give effect to their migration to the Android platform. This was revealed by the division of Samsung Mobile in Nigeria, which has confirmed on Twitter that the BlackBerry Messenger application will be released next Friday .
The company says its customers in Africa can access through Samsung BBM Messaging Hub. According to CNET, Samsung devices will have exclusive access to BBM in Africa for a period of three months . BlackBerry Messenger is a very popular service in Africa, so that the decision of Samsung to launch the application in that market is not as surprising as it might seem at first sight.
But why BBM arrives first at Samsung? And with three months exclusively, too. Here’s why: Samsung and BlackBerry announced last month that it had formed an alliance to bring popular messaging application to mobile Galaxy.
Naturally, this could annoy users of Android devices using other brands. BlackBerry has not spoken at any time exclusives, although the announcement of Samsung Nigeria itself coincides with the dates that marked the Canadian firm to launch messaging service: “When summer ends.”
BlackBerry Messenger is free and hit the Samsung App Store rather than Google Play , adding to the extensive range of messaging applications that try to compete with WhatsApp. There remains one last question: BlackBerry CEO, Thorsten Heins, announced in May the launch of BBM to iOS and Android. Unveiled Day A (Android), when we will have a BlackBerry Messenger on iPhone?
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