Sunday, September 22, 2013

Rollout BBM for Android stop put, leaked version causes problems

BBM for Android
It was a ' thing ' for Saturday, finally we could use it. BBM on Android devices the plan was that at 13.00 local time the rollout would start, so far did not.

Problems BBM for Android
BlackBerry would first start after which iOS would be. 's Turn with Android Those who want to use this application are probably exactly at 13.00 started changing the Play Store, but that was in vain. BlackBerry has the following to say about this (translated) here:
For the launch of BBM for Android was launched not put an online version. The enthusiasm and interest was very large, more than 1.1 million users used this system before it officially came into the Play Store. This leaked version causes problems, we are now solving.

Prior to rolling out the official version was already a leaked version, within hours it was downloaded over one million times. The Blackberry servers were overloaded by this massive application and during the day, try to solve these problems Blackberry
deferred

Tonight the message appeared on the blog of BlackBerry that these issues were not yet resolved and that the rollout of BBM for Android and iPhone were discontinued. The iOS users who have already downloaded a version can continue to use, others will have to wait. The leaked Android version will be disabled and when that is done will be rolled out BBM country to country.

It seems that Blackberry interest in the application has been underestimated and did not take into account the possibility that a leaked version would be all over the world.
Rapidly distributed

BBM for Android first experiences
we have BBM for Android equally able to test, see screenshot below. A number of things stand out. Thus there is a constant icon in the notification bar on hand to let you know that BBM connected. As far as we can discover not turn it off, so there will always stand as BBM user an icon in the status bar. In addition, BBM chosen to keep. Typical BlackBerry looks to Perhaps an understandable choice, but we would have liked an application to Google's guidelines. Furthermore, does the BBM application for Android as you would expect with sending messages, files and of course the ' ping ' of users.