BBM to hit users in September

Since the day BlackBerry announced its plans to bring its messaging service BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) to Android and iOS, there has been a buzz in tech circles as well as among consumersTaking BlackBerry Messenger cross-platform will make a lot of Android users happy. Hopefully, we won't have to wait too long to see it. BlackBerry Messenger, the one killer feature that keeps a lot of folks from ever leaving the house without their BlackBerry, should be available for Android in September according to BlackBerry India   BlackBerry has been quite open about its long-running messaging service, BBM, coming to Android and iOS this summer, although it has held back on giving us an exact date. But in an interview with IBN Live, BlackBerry India's managing director, Sunil Lalvani, might have given us a date for the diary. Or a slightly less vague one than we already had, at least. "The service is coming to Android this summer. But summer as per North America, where it remains till September," he said. When he was then prodded further to clarify whether this means it will be out before the end of September, his responsive was allegedly "in the affirmative". If we're honest, we expected "summer" to be more of a July/August affair but we're sure we can manage to wait an extra month if need be. No word on iOS, but we'd take a guess and say it will land pretty close, if not exactly on the Android release. A previous tweet from T-Mobile had claimed that BBM would hit both platforms on June 27, before BlackBerry said it was nonsense We know plenty of folks will be happy to see BBM for Android, and we hope the programmers at BlackBerry do a great job and give us an app we will want to use. Hopefully, we'll know more in a month or so.