BlackBerry: BBM Is Launching For iOS "Before The End of Summer", CEO Confirms

At the beginning of Summer, BlackBerry announced in a big media event that its instant message BlackBerry Messenger will be coming for iOS and Android devices at the beginning of this summer. Company CEO Thorsten Heins made the new timeframe official during a quarterly earnings call this morning, while revealing disappointing results…

According to a new report from the folks at MobileSyrup, BlackBerry Messenger will support devices running on iOS 6 or later, and Android OS 4.0 or higher. As for the iOS edition, initially the app will be limited to messaging and groups.

In related BlackBerry news, the company shipped 2.7 million BlackBerry 10 handsets – a far cry from the 37.4 million iPhones Apple sold in its most recent quarter. Due to slow sales, the company reported an unexpected quarterly loss of $84 million, prompting investors to immediately punish the stock which plunged as much as 25 percent in pre-market trading on Friday.

Back in March, BlackBerry bragged about shipping a million units of the then new BlackBerry Z10 hand

As for the BlackBerry 10 operating system, CEO Thorsten Heins said the PlayBook tablet won’t be able to run that due to “performance and user experience” concerns, which is another bad news for fans who were counting on the firmware update enabling new features to compete with Apple’s iPad.