RIM has just announced the availability of BBM 7 for users of its Internet-enabled BlackBerry smartphones. Currently in beta testing phase, BBM 7 comes with a number of new features, most notably BBM Voice, which allows users to make and receive calls on their phones through any working Wi-Fi connection. This brings it up to the level of Skype and its ilk, which first gave such a feature to users of virtually all mobile platforms many years ago. The new BBM allows users to switch between calling and texting easily. And with a new split screen feature, lets users talk and text at the same time.
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- BBM 7 Beta can be downloaded for free from BlackBerry Beta Zone at www.blackberry.com/betazone/.
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BlackBerry Messenger is already a hugely popular service, perhaps even one of the most successful elements of the BlackBerry infrastructure.- Alex Todd, Recombu
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