BBM Music has finally arrived

By George Wong on 11/02/2011, filed in Home > Audio

BBM Music has finally arrived A couple of months ago, there were rumors about RIM launching a BlackBerry Messenger-based music service floating around. Those rumors turned out to be true and a few weeks later, BBM Music was officially launched. And now it looks like the app/service is about to make its way to our BlackBerry phones very soon. RIM has just announced on the official BlackBerry blog that BBM Music will be available for downloading within the next 24 hours in Canada, the US and Australia (with more regions in the near future).

BBM Music is a BBM-connected social music service that allows BBM and BlackBerry smartphone users to discover, listen to and share their music collections together- it basically allows you to connect with your friends through music on a whole new level. The service will be available in premium and free flavors with the difference being that the free version will only let users listen to 30 second clips as opposed to the full songs of the premium version.

Find out more about BBM Music here, or head over to the BlackBerry App World to download the app.

RIM: RIM is the acronym for Research In Motion, the Canadian company behind the BlackBerry brand. RIM was founded in the mid 90s by Mike Lazaridis and with Jim Balsillie and went IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 1998. Its claim to fame was to make mobile email really effective and enterprises quickly adopted its devices and associated software and services which were highly lucrative. With the rise of iOS and Android devices, the BlackBerry franchise bumped into trouble and its decline prompted RIM to take a radical step by overhauling its BlackBerry operating system (OS) completely with QNX. The first version of the QNX BlackBerry OS is BlackBerry 10 or BB10.

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