The latest version of BBM started rolling out yesterday, April 1.
With this new version available from the respective app stores for Android, Blackberry and iOS, BBM chats promises to be more exciting with BBM stickers. These stickers are larger, bolder and more expressive images than emoticons and you can use them in your BBM chats.
Customers will be able to purchase and download sticker packs from the new BBM Shop found in BBM.
“Stickers are another great example of how we’re making the BBM experience more engaging and fun for our customers,” said David Proulx, Senior Director, BBM at BlackBerry. “Stickers let you personalize your chats and strike the right chord with people around the world who rely on stickers in chats when they connect with colleagues, family, friends, peers and partners.”
According to the press statement, “Each sticker pack contains between 20 and 25 stickers and features content developed by talented artists or relating to a theme or a character like CosCat, Gilbert’s Tales or Bubble Bot, as well as sticker packs featuring content from popular brands including Shaun the Sheep and WWE. To start, sticker packs will either be offered for free, or cost US $1.99, or an approximate equivalent amount in the local currency, and will be billed through the device’s app store.”
“With WrestleMania 30 just around the corner, WWE is planning to give away a free sticker pack to its fans through BBM. In addition, a free sticker pack created by BlackBerry featuring favorite BBM emoticons will be available to all BBM customers that download the new update. BlackBerry plans to add new sticker packs on a regular basis.”
“In addition to stickers, BBM customers can now easily share photos in multi-person chats*. Photos will be delivered in the chat as a thumbnail that can be opened to reveal the image in full size. BBM customers can also now send higher quality photos, videos and presentations thanks to larger in-chat file transfers. Files up to 16MB can now be shared in a chat, an increase of 10MB.”
Here is a video on the new Stickers feature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi1LfK9eOhQ&feature=youtu.be
Here is a video on picture sharing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-sTyjEEJW0&feature=youtu.be
Picture Credit: Techcrunch
