All About Smartphones

It's exciting using BBM on Android and iOS devices, 10 million downloads in 24hrs is a testament to that and that's a good thing for the Canadian company, but not without a catch. The catch is the bad news but there's good news too.  If you have used BBM on BlackBerry 10 phones you would know that it has some features missing in the cross platform devices. The good news is that BlackBerry has pledged to bring the missing features (BBM voice, BBM Channels etc) to Android and iPhone. Also, BlackBerry has pledged to keep making BBM on Android and iPhone free and better. The bad news is that BlackBerry says advertising will be brought to BBM on Android and iOS devices.  Seeing the level of acceptance the messaging app as gained, its only logical that BlackBerry uses this swift popularity to monetize the app. Generally, since the release of BBM to other platforms, the sale value of BlackBerry devices have dropped especially here in Nigeria and  this ma...

Apple's iMessage messaging service just got spotted on Google Play Store and its available for download for Android devices. Like the name suggest, it allows you to send iMessages to not only Apple devices but also to other Android users that have the app installed. This is actually surprising seeing that the app had been in the store since September 12th according to the information on Google Play Store. Not only that, there are reviews being written which suggests that the app is performing as intended. Jay Freeman, creator of Cydia, a popular Hacker and Developer on the iOS platform has this to say "as far as I can tell the way it works is that the client does directly connect to Apple, but the data is all processed on the developer's server in China. This not only means that Apple can't just block them by IP address, but also that they get to keep the "secret sauce" on their servers (and potentially just run Apple code: there...