All BlackBerry IM Clients Updated To Version 2.5

by Robb Dunewood on September 23, 2009 · 3 comments

BlackBerry Instant Messaging Clients

Research in Motion has updated all of it’s Instant Message clients, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, and Google Talk, to version 2.5.

New features include:

  • Add dedicated icons to the Home Screen for one-click access to conversation boxes of specific contacts. The icon appears as the contact’s display picture or avatar.
  • Add contacts and display pictures or avatars to the address book to easily instant message, email, SMS, or call right from the address book or conversation box.
  • Search through saved conversations
  • Add dedicated emoticon icons in the conversation box

Word on the street is that these clients are now compatible with BlackBerry OS 5 as well.

You can pick up any of these instant messaging clients up OTA by pointing your device’s BlackBerry Browser to http://mobile.blackberry.com and clicking on Instant Messaging.

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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

1 storm owner September 23, 2009 at 3:24 pm

Wow, I just got my first BlackBerry and I didn’t even now that I could put ICQ on it.

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2 wadha October 10, 2009 at 7:20 am

please send me the link for windows live messenger for the bb

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3 Condor November 9, 2009 at 3:45 pm

here you can dowload the live msn messenger http://mobileapps.blackberry.com/devicesoftware/index.do

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