Windows Live Messenger hits BlackBerry

Posted on Jul 23, 08 03:34 AM PDT

Finally, folks rocking to a BlackBerry can rest easy knowing that they will be able to check out their online buddies over on Windows Live Messenger, long after other operating systems and platforms (most notably Symbian) have had such an application. Windows Live Messenger for BlackBerry will rely on push technology to receive e-ails and messages, while allowing the user to set custom status messages, log chats, show a Display Picture, use more than 60 emoticons, and even send and receive pictures and files. It will support Arabic, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Dutch (Netherlands), English, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish languages, but unfortunately it was not unveiled at the same time as Windows Live Hotmail for Blackberry as the latter is not quite ready just yet.

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