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what's up everyone John Brenner from TechnoBuffalo here this does not look like a BlackBerry yet it now has one of BlackBerry's best features for free and that is bbm let me give you a hands-on tour of bbm for Android iOS all right so BPM is a free application you can download it from the Google Play or the App Store I'm showing it here on Android go ahead and download and install one thing to notice though you're gonna get that bbm icon then is always gonna show up in your app drawer if you use Android you cannot get rid of it as long as the app is open which is really annoying so there is the icon go ahead and open it up it looks like a very familiar layout that's what we saw on BB 10 devices but you've got a grid of icons across the bottom chats contacts groups and then settings so I'll give a quick rundown of what a chat looks like I've got Brandon Russell here I sit in the office I'll go ahead and send him a bbm I will say hi I noticed that you can send your contact information you could touch a file ball you can attach our pictures galleries a voice notes you can't share screens or anything quite yet or even video but hopefully that will be coming very soon we'll go ahead and hit Send and it goes off when you get that D next let you know it's delivered and it'll change to an R like it just did letting us know that Brandon has received it presumably he will reply there we go hi handsome but you don't get any medication that he's typing but he'll see on his screen the D icon turned to our you've got a ton a smiley faces to choose from so if you're big into emoji and stuff you're going to be quite the happy person if you slide on over you can see your contact group so there any updates someone change a picture change location or any invites you scroll on over there speaking of invites if you go into settings here I'll show you how that works gonna go to pull us off the side for a quick second you come back in you get settings invite to bbm start multi-person chat invite is pretty familiar to anybody who's used bbm we do it by a barcode scan this is pin based right now and download the application let's get to put in your email address and then login to your BlackBerry World account but this is still pin based you get a brand new pin if you don't already have one and it is one account per device so you can't have the same bbm on several different phones you guys sort of log out and then relog in again go ahead and cancel will jump into settings here I'll show you again what those look like pushed off to the side will come right back in you get a ton of options here to customize what you want save chat history show our keyboard contacts layout and all kinds of other stuff here edit blocked contacts and the rest of that will go back then that's a pretty standard chat application you have to invite your friends they have to accept the invitation and come in if you use bbm for work or on a previous device you're gonna love this I can send from Android iOS or vice versa or to any BlackBerry device obviously it's now cross-platform it seems to work very well so it's been a really quick overview of bbm for not blackberry what's up everyone its Ashlee thanks so much for watching that most recent video if you enjoyed it please click on the word subscribe right underneath me to get tons of more tech videos from us here at TechnoBuffalo we've got unboxings comparisons reviews recaps and everything else you can think of here on the channel if you're in the mood for more technology just click right over here to check out some of our most recent videos see you next time humans