When BlackBerry announced that it is making its popular messaging service, BBM, into a cross platform service, the entire tech industry erupted in euphoria. And when BlackBerry finally released their BBM Chat for Android, there was so much rush that a lot of people had to wait to try out BBM and that indicated a clear interest of the crowd in BBM.
However, from the time of release until now, BBM for Android has been available only on Android 4.0+ devices and with Android Gingerbread 2.3 still accounting for 20% of Android users, a lot of people were left without access to BBM. BlackBeery had stated that they were working hard to bring BBM for Gingerbread users and they have lived up to their word.
Some of the features that the users of Android 2.3 Gingerbread will not be able to use includes – BBM’s Voice Call, Live location tracking on Map and BBM Channels. There is no word on whether these features will be addressed in the coming version or not, but we sure do hope they will instate the features.
BBM is now available for Android 2.3 Gingerbread users and they will be able to download the application from Play Store.