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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by audible what's up everyone welcome back there pisode of renter's rifts I am back in states and I got a story to tell you it's a story about blackberry and how I use bbm quite a bit while I was traveling at the Geneva Auto Show and I really really liked it this is retinas risk let's get started before we get to the story let me just say I used an iPhone 5s while I was in Geneva and my wife uses a Galaxy Note 3 so we couldn't talk on the phone using FaceTime audio which is pretty solid whatsapp which we did use for messaging on occasion doesn't have a voice option we could have set up Skype but I really wanted to give bbm for voice of a shot so I was traveling I installed bbm on my wife's phone she never use it before she's not the most tech-savvy and I wanted to you know give it a whirl forget all the hoopla but going over whatsapp being sold for a lot of money I wanted to see what black break it off no certainly hasn't been that many reasons to have good news for black bear over the past few years but I think it's time to give credit where credit is due bbm is awesome and bbm for voice is absolutely incredible the voice quality this is all the other side of the world even when I had a very slow Wi-Fi connection was awesome you could not tell us on their side of the god of the world you couldn't hear any echo it sounded really really good at sounds like any typical cell phone call on her ends again not the most tech-savvy she was very easy for her to use she figured out how to make phone calls figure out how to answer it she liked that you could see if her messages were received everything just worked really really well I did make international calls using Skype to call my family and to use dial actual numbers on the voice quality didn't measure up to what I was hearing on bbm voice so if you're looking about traveling you might want to give bbm a shot actually made me want to look at bbm serve as a whole messaging platform all over again it worked really quickly I was using whatsapp usually that works pretty well I get the little check mark let it got sent but sometimes it's delay I delay at all with bbm that's how we texted each other it's how we made phone calls I had no issue with it at all I Jewish on non BlackBerry devices that there was a way to do video chat it would have been kind of nice to see my baby and see my wife and such but for just straight voice it was really really incredible the only knock that I had on it is the little icon to dial was super small how to kind of tap it and when you put it on speaker there was an echo so you got to hold the phone up to your head but that is really really it so if you're traveling abroad and you're thinking about maybe wanting to send messages or make phone calls it's a really great way to go it's now pretty much platform agnostic with the exception of Windows Phones you've got Android iOS or of course blackberry you can use bbm Voice and just going to work well so again I haven't had the opportunity or really the reason to say many positive things about blackberry they've been you know hemorrhaging money into their history the past few years been a well-documented no point in rehashing well they do something right I feel they need to give credit as a bbm for voice really awesome if you've got friends that live out of the country if you've got relatives live out of the country if you want a for some reason save your minutes a really solid way to go I did try using it when I was just on data to hear the quality I was on a 4G connection in Geneva on Swisscom I did a speed test I was getting about 2 to 3 megabits down and about the same up and I just made a quick couple minute calls to test how it worked on data and it sounded absolutely identical as it did to on Wi-Fi so the issue there as well as funding in the States you want to use it on Wi-Fi or over cellular you're gonna have no problem at all so blackberry nice job not 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video so if you try to bbm for voice I love to hear your thoughts let me know what you think is did work as well for me did for you leave questions and comments thread in my pants region I love to hear your thoughts until next time I am John render from TechnoBuffalo I'll see you guys next video bye bye what's up everyone thank you for watching that video if you want to see more the latest and greatest tech news you can subscribe to our main TechnoBuffalo channel by clicking the button right down below in my pants region or click on the buttons to your right to see more videos