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BlackBerry Messenger 6 Details Leaked!

January 25, 2011 by Robb Dunewood 4 Comments

Most everyone’s favorite mobile instant message application, BlackBerry Messenger is about to receive a major update taking BBM to version 6.  There is no official release date for BlackBerry Messenger 6, however, unofficially, we are hearing that the application will come out soon.

New BlackBerry Messenger 6 features:

  • The ability to play games and use your BBM user name as your gamer name
  • Cross chats between users over BBM (and it looks like you and the other parties playing don’t have to be on each other friends list)
  • Also, when we complete tasks on these new games our status will change to show what task we completed (sounds like its similar to the “show what i am listening to tab” and will probably have an option to share with your BBM contacts or hide it from your contacts)
  • It also seems like on BBM6, BBM groups will be able to handle more members
  • The new BBM6 will be supported on all devices running OS 5+ (at least for now)
  • Looks like a mobile game developer company by the name of “Gamemachi” is working on game(s) for this new BBM6 platform. I wonder who else will be joining them?

[via PocketBerry]

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Filed Under: BlackBerry Tagged With: BBM, BBM 6, BlackBerry Messenger, BlackBerry Messenger 6

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  1. ja2bk says

    January 25, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    Gaming? Why? Are they trying to turn BBM into Facebook?

    Reply
  2. gquaglia says

    January 25, 2011 at 7:43 pm

    Wow, that is so underwhelming. Did the title really need an exclamation point?

    Reply
  3. viper says

    January 27, 2011 at 2:14 pm

    BBM is not a good place for games.

    Reply
  4. yhoni says

    January 27, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    ja2bk – if this was facebook i’d ‘like’ your comment
    gquaglia – completely agree
    viper – touche

    kudos RIM – way to underwhelm.

    Reply

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