While BlackBerry Jam Asia was all about BlackBerry 10, the company recently launched a BlackBerry phone running the legacy BlackBerry 7 system. The 9720 is a low end device aimed at the fast growing markets in Asia. Why launch an outdated model instead of making the BlackBerry 10 platform available on a low end device?
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BlackBerry showed off the ability to access and use BlackBerry Messenger using desktop machines on Thursday at the end of the keynote speech to kick off BlackBerry Jam Asia in Hong Kong. The soon to be cross-platform mobile messaging app seems to finally have been extended to the desktop. But has it? The world thinks that BlackBerry will soon release a BBM app for desktop computers. That’s not the case at all.
Continue reading BlackBerry: No Commitments to BBM on the Desktop