BlackBerry Messenger BBM Free Voice Calls Feature

BlackBerry Messenger BBM Free Voice Calls Feature Now Available From RIM,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
The BlackBerry maker, criticized ad nauseum recently for the long delays to its new generation of phones, has released a new feature allowing users to make free voice calls, and just weeks after the company announced development plans for it.
RIM announced on its blog Monday the release of BBM 7,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the latest version of its oncepopular BlackBerry Messenger service, with a new option to make free voice calls, so long as the user is connected to a wifi network.
"BBM 7 gives you the freedom to choose how you connect with your BBM contacts. It is designed so you can seamlessly switch from a BBM message to a BBM Voice call for free over WiFi,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," the company announced on its blog.
The move is seemingly designed to help RIM stay abreast of free voice apps on competing smartphones. Apple's new phones feature Facetime, which allows you to make calls via the Internet. There are numerous apps for Android that allow voice calls via data as well.
"It's not clear why the feature works only over WiFi, and not on 3G or 4G networks," writes Jared Newman at PCWorld.
"BBM Voice probably won't lure many people back to BlackBerry in its current state," PCWorld's Newman writes, but in developing countries or countries with exorbitantly high telecom costs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it could make a difference, writes Kevin C. Tofel at GigaOM.
"The new feature should be especially useful in areas with high wireless network concentration and in regions where voice calling minutes are still expensive," he writes.
RIM observers are eager to see the company maintain a QWERTY keyboard phone in its roster, as many BlackBerry users are partial to that feature. (The new generation of BlackBerry phones will largely feature touchscreen keyboards, like the iPhone and Android phones.)
BlackBerry 10 First LookIn email, when you select a message, it swoops in from the side.
BlackBerry 10 PreviewA look at the "Glance" view on attachments in email.
BlackBerry 10 PreviewA look at the new touchscreen keyboard, with predictions of what word you are going to type next. Hold down the letter and swipe up briefly to choose that word.
BlackBerry 10 PreviewAnother look at the predictive keyboard.
BlackBerry 10 PreviewThe phone call screen. Swipe up to dismiss, down to answer.
BlackBerry 10 PreviewThe phone call screen.
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I think that this is too little, too late. I used to use BBM with my family and some of my friends. Now all of them have gone to iPhones or Android platforms. I am the only one left with a Blackberry, so BBM is of no use to me. There are too many things with Blackberry that need to be updated for it to compete an longer. The internet access is painfully slow, for one. Other capabilities that are present on other phones are available on Blackberry. While they were riding high as one of the biggest sellers they forgot to continue to move forward and got caught sleeping.
Yeah, that was the same argument made against Apple in June when they announced ft supported on 3G. It didn't wash then, and doesn't now. Most plans incorporate minutes (Local and some plans support LD or Nation wide calling), so only way for the carriers to make their scratch is from data usage, or plans that have large amounts of data. Streaming live video/audio would drive up mobile data use, and it would be a win for the carriers. Do you think any of the big three monitor exactly what applications you are using your data for? No, they only care about the use. So I can stream audio/video calls from almost any WP,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Android, and Apple device,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but not from a BlackBerry? I am not posting about the current crop of OS 7 devices, but the unreleased BB10. Like I already posted, we'll just have to wait and see.
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