Images of BBM on Android reportedly surface [updated]

By on Oct 3, 2011 at 12:15 PM
mobile October 3, 2011

BGR exclusively reported in March that Research In Motion was working to bring its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) platform to Android smartphones and the iPhone. Now, images that purportedly show a beta version of the chat application running on an Android device have been leaked by TechRadar. Reportedly, the app is set to launch on Android before next year and RIM is already in the final stages of testing the solution. The leak lines up with BGR’s original report that RIM would develop an Android client before an iOS version. In addition, BGR reported that RIM will likely limit the features of BBM on iOS and Android in an effort to woo users who want a more robust BBM experience back to a BlackBerry. RIM has plenty of stiff competition in the chat space, however. Applications such as Kik, Skype-owned GroupMe, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger all offer similar features and are available across multiple mobile platforms, and Apple’s iMessage service will launch this month with iOS 5. Hit the jump for a second image that provides a better look at the UI.

UPDATE: As pointed out by a tweet from Chris Parsons, it appears as though the image used in the screenshot below was pieced together from a marketing shot posted by RIM in August.

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  • TOMMMMMM

    this is fake.

    • Anonymous

      Yes it is another fake article i knew BGR couldn’t resist this one

      • Cashman

        BGR please start doing some reporting and stop copy and pasting things from other sites, then labeling it as “exclusive”

      • Applesucksfatties

        I wonder if Scroat was hired on as an iBGR editor…   he has excellent copy and pasting skills and he makes it abundantly clear that he is infatuated with Apple…. kinda like the other iBGR editors are.

    • Against the Grain

       Yep, RIM simply doesn’t do this sort of thing. Remember “Virtual BlackBerry” on Windows Mobile and Symbian?? 3 years of it’s just around the corner….. then pulled.

  • http://twitter.com/ramirphoto ramir sioson

    this should be really interesting, I wonder what features they would leave out for IOS and Android of this pushes through. I for one use a Android and a Blackberry at the same time and can’t let go of bbm

  • http://tumblr.lgdm.tv Mister Legend

    It’ll probably make it to android (out of beta) before it hits the playbook… ugh.

  • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

    KIK FTW. I can’t chat with friends on DROID OS, iOS, and windows.

  • Anonymous

    holy the guy who created oreos ! take that apple! …. I’m still an apple fan boy 

  • Bringit

    Blackberry and Android – a marriage made in smartphone hell.

    • Steve Jenkins

      Bringit, if you and Scroat were on a baseball team, which one of you would be the pitcher and who would be the catcher? Oh, and is max the umpire? Basically what I’m trying to say here is your a bunch of limp wristed sissies…

  • Max

    If you stay with Blackberry because of BBM, you are a moron and so are all 2 of your friends who stay too.

    • Anonymous

      Lol. And Applesucksfatties is Probably one of them.

      • Anonymous

        zzzzzzzzzz troll alert zzzzzzzzzzzzzz scroat is gonna die in 2secs zzzzzzzzzzzz actually who gives a shit if he does zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz stupid troll

      • Applesucksfatties

        I don’t own a BB just for BBM.. nice try though.   I’m glad to see you branched out from your typical cut and paste comments.  

    • Anonymous

      To bad i stayed with your mom ugly ass for 18 years and the idiots that did before me.

      • Max

        Whos ass did you prefer…my mom or the idiots?

      • Applesucksfatties

        Rumor has it, everyone prefers your mom’s.    I thought I saw a line down the street to tap that fugly hag…  

    • Anonymous

      So if I stay with a company because of a feature that works so well that it helped lead to successful organizations just a few months ago with the London riots….I’m a moron.

      Hrm….lemme get out of your troll train

    • Applesucksfatties

      sure Max… from the guy who gets a stiffy every time he sees his iPhone..    

  • Anonymous

    Too little too late. iMessage = RIM and android killer. RIM and android will be dead in two years  true story™©®

    • Anonymous

      NEXT!!

  • Anonymous

    First! Cowabunga!!

  • Anonymous

    Given the number of Android-related
    sessions planned for DevCon’11, I’m starting to wonder if RIM sees
    Android as the new Java SDK for their future QNX-based devices.If
    so, this may just be a screenshot of an internal prototype of something
    that’s only going to become publicly available on QNX-based RIM
    phones/tablets.

    • Anonymous

      I agree. This could be a QNX testing device prototype that’s going to shown at DevCon.

      • Anonymous

        It doesn’t look like no android powered device in market now.

  • Anonymous

    That’s the default PIN for a BlackBerry simulator.

  • Carl

    This would be awesome… if I still knew anyone who owned a BlackBerry.

    • Anonymous

      Your mom your daddy “ME” your sister, your dumb ass shall i continue?

  • Anonymous

    Android users already have Google Talk and lots of other choices to boot. I don’t think anyone is looking to use a dumbed down BBM on there Android phone.

    • http://twitter.com/ramirphoto ramir sioson

      its not the dumb-down part, its the fact that some blackberry users only like to talk on bbm and even forget they have txt messaging on their phones. being able to communicate to the stubborn bbm users would be nice

  • blindfollowingidiot

    i’m going to buy an iphone because im a idiot who doesnt think, all i know is it doe’s fvck all but it looks nice.

    • somedude0123

      Great jerb.

  • Todimusprime

    Since it is obviously a fake why doesnt BGR remove this disgraceful piece of garbage blogging.

  • Avi1dUser

    i think its because it gets all the ‘blackberry’ hating trolls togethar

  • Anonymous

    Fake Genius Report

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1001483324 Gerry Quaglia

    BBM for Android might have been big news 2 years ago, but now the love affair many had with BBM is over as many have moved beyond BBs.

  • Elusive

    Exclusive: Any dumbass can easily change the app icon and name. That app looked so cheesy. Bgr’s exclusives are a joke. Copy and paste must be the new exclusive…

  • Guest

    How would this work without a NOC? It wouldn’t. Wild speculation. I was in a Blackberry meeting last week and they are looking to expand what they offer customers, not look to make it easier for customers to use their services on another product.

  • Anonymous

    More fine reporting by BGR, only to be proven wrong hours later.

  • Anonymous

    More lies on BGR again, I see. What a shock.

  • Max

    My grandma dumped her blackberry. She said it is fine for her friends with alzheimers but not for her.

    • Applesucksfatties

      Dude.. you make no f*cking sense.  I’m sure you mean to say “My grandma took a dump in her depends and I had to change it for her.  I hate living with her but I’m a 40 year old broke ass limp dicked virgin that can’t afford to move out of her one bedroom apartment in the assisted living home.” 

  • Yoyo

    Awesome so the overated chat system on Blackberry is coming to Android so every damn female i know will message me to BBM them. God that was so damn annoying when i owned a BB.

    • Applesucksfatties

      1. why would they message you to BBM them?

      2.  Did you ever think about the fact that you can either not give them your BBM pin or just delete their texts and ignore them?

      3. yeah.. it really sucks when chicks are BBM/texting you… either you are gay or you hang around some fugly b*tches.

  • Phenixphyre

    Did you give your phone to a kid to draw on??? How can I take you serious???

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