The BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application is a huge download success. More than 20 million users already have it on their smartphones, and despite its "peculiar" operation, depending on a PIN instead of your phone number or your email account, it could end up establishing itself as an important messaging service . For many users it is a totally new application, with certain peculiarities and some settings that are a little hidden, that's why We want to show you 5 tricks that will facilitate the use of the application.
Where is my PIN?
The application works by means of a PIN necessary to be able to add any contact to BBM, or to be added to you. Where can we find that PIN? Too easy, just click on your avatar, in the upper left corner, and a screen with your profile and your PIN will appear at the bottom. In addition, a button to copy it and be able to paste it into a message for someone to add you.
Modify your status
On this same screen you can modify your status (Available or busy), and a message that will appear next to your avatar to anyone who has added you.
The BBM main menu is displayed by clicking on the icon with the three dots at the bottom right of the screen. There we can access application settings, necessary for the next two tricks that we are going to show you.
Modify how to view contacts
BBM allows us two ways to view our contacts: through a list, with the small avatars, or through a grid with the largest avatars. To change them, you have to access the BBM settings and in the "Contact Design" menu. select between grid or list, as we wish.
Hide the keyboard action bar
Just above the keyboard, when writing a message, we can see a small toolbar called "action bar", which can be very useful or very annoying. if we want to hide it we will have to access the configuration menu and mark the option «Show action bar with keyboard».
Selectively disable updates
BlackBerry Messenger show updates from your contacts. When someone changes their avatar, their status, or makes a comment, it appears in the "Updates" section. If you want to deactivate the updates of a particular contact you must press and hold on the contact, and click on the icon that appears in the lower right part of the screen.
Five simple tricks to get to know this application better. Do you know any other that are not on this list?
More information - BlackBerry Messenger has already been downloaded more than 10 million times
An excellent application for sure in a while they will end the reign of WhatsApp since it does not have any privacy, despite what many people think it is not good to be connected to everyone and at all times, there is a thin line that I do not know It must happen and the advantages of BBM are greater than those that Whats can offer, at least as it currently works.
what are the advantages? and do not say that privacy because in any app in the update they are exempt from this .. and then if, suddenly in the "future" the BBM takes flight over whatsapp, or ... it may be like one more messaging app of those That they have promoted so much here, it would even be one more LINE, or if blackberry goes bankrupt before its time.
I use it although with few people and it's very good
but impossible to dethrone whatsapp, not including adding people by phone number, which was what made the difference between it and all those that already existed previously
I deleted it precisely today, using this App is going back to prehistory.
I deleted it precisely today, using this App is going back to prehistory.
I don't like BBM, the interface seems horrible to me, and as Hector says, it's back to prehistory.
I don't like it either, it's very uncomfortable, the conversion window looks very small, and if you have activated the action bar above the keyboard, it looks even smaller. and having the bbm on an iphone is like having a cassette player on a ferrari.
It is an excellent messaging application, more secure in privacy than WhatsApp, I hope BBM continues like this. In all the time that I have used it, it has never failed me, very innovative. I gladly leave whatsapp and switch to BBM !!
where is the innovation?
mmmm here I see that it is not like whatsapp because you do not add by number, mmm here I see LOOSE
WhatsApp became popular, if this one does the other is prehistoric as some say, who really thinks that the interface is bad, my mother, how much neophyte.
How stupid! answering himself
This is an application of a company that is an undead
Give me your PIN?
Hahaha
This is like playing Atari again, pure nostalgia