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BlackBerry UAE dismisses rumours of plans to shelve launch BBM for Android, iOS; Beta testing on

Officials have dismissed rumours that BlackBerry has shelved plans to launch the BBM on Android and iOS.
A person in the know, from BlackBerry UAE, said the beta testing is still on and people are still being encouraged to sign up for BBM messenger.

“The rumours are not true. We have not shelved the plan,” the person said.

BlackBerry almost stopped short of releasing the apps for the two popular operating systems in September. 
What’s more, an unofficial app for BBM was released even before BlackBerry could release the official one and was downloaded by more than 1 million Android users.

BlackBerry immediately held back on its release and has since been working on a redesign.

CrackBerry.com recently confirmed that the BBM app for Android has been redesigned and is currently in BETA test mode.
Explaining the changes CrackBerry said, “According to some of the emails we've received, the latest beta has some changes in place from previous versions aside from the normal bug fixes.

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