Credit : While was losing ground at the hands of the newer versions of Android, Gingerbread (2.3.3 to 2.3.7) holds 21.2% of the phone market with the mobile platform Google . Jelly Bean (4.1 and 4.2 in all its updates) is the most popular so far, because it adds 59.1 percent.
BlackBerry decided to take advantage of that percentage of phones that still run the old Android platform and announced that it will launch BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for phones with Gingerbread in February. The application will be released initially in beta and will be available for versions 2.3.3 and higher.“We could not be more excited! Give support to allow millions more Gingerbread Android users download popular BBM messaging application ” wrote BlackBerry one their blogs.
Thus BlackBerry strengthen the battle with other messaging services like WhatsApp or Line , both compatible with Android 2.1 or higher, which are especially popular in emerging countries, where they are also used previous versions of Android.
Today BBM is compatible with Ice Cream Sandwich on. BlackBerry took your messaging application to Android and iOS in October, after a difficult launch was delayed more than a month.
landing on rival platforms was unprecedented step BlackBerry and his Messenger, previously limited to branded devices only. The Canadian manufacturer thus seeks to reactivate its presence in the global smartphone market dominated by Android comfortably today.
Canadian company seeks to provide a change of direction: in 2013, BlackBerry , about to be sold to an investment fund, finally opted to remain independent, but replaced its former CEO, Thorsten Heins, John Chen, who will try to return to the firm’s success in previous years.
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