Samsung brings BBM for Android to Sub-Saharan Africa

Samsung has fixed so as to BBM™, the mobile social set-up, is at the moment existing to Samsung smartphone users, in Sub-Saharan Africa, days in advance of the formal rollout to other branded Android™ procedure. This imperfect instant offer is existing to Samsung customers until 20h00 on 24October 2013.

“The anticipation is from top to toe. We are delighted so as to we are able to offer our loyal customers an help to download BBM. We are self-assured users will have the benefit of the Samsung experience to which they allow befall accustomed to,” thought George Ferreira, VP and COO of Samsung Electronics Africa.

BBM will form part of Samsung’s Messaging Hub as a complementary addition to the current slate of messaging services so as to Samsung customers already have the benefit of, counting Whatsapp, WeChat and Samsung’s decency messaging service ChatON, which at the moment has a international subscriber pedestal of greater than 100 million users.

“We are continuously enhancing our offering to ensure our users benefit from from top to toe quality innovations and partnerships to live a connected lifestyle of communicating and sharing with contacts, type and colleagues each sunlight hours,” continues Ferreira. BBM offers Samsung GALAXY smartphone users an extensive range of skin texture, counting BBM chat (one to single or multi-person chat), BBM Groups so as to allow customers invite up to 30 contacts to chat in concert, as well as the aptitude to share photos and voice interpretation.

"We are excited to product with Samsung to launch BBM to their customers in sub-Saharan Africa,” thought Andrew Bocking, Executive Vice President in support of BBM by the side of BlackBerry. “Samsung customers will discover could you repeat that? Makes BBM so general – they’ll have the benefit of a fast, consistent and engaging mobile messaging experience.”

BBM is at the moment existing in support of Samsung GALAXY Android smartphones in support of free of charge from the Samsung App Store. Due to the from top to toe demand and volume, undeniable measures allow been deposit in place to ensure a smooth roll-out across the Sub-Saharan African continent:

Installation guidelines:

•     Visit BBM.Com to be connected to the BBM summon in the Samsung App Store;
•     Download the BBM app from the Samsung App Store;
•     Once the app has been installed, friendly it and enter an practicing email take in hand. This will      ensure so as to the user is placed in a queuing order;
•     Notification will be sent to users via so as to email when they allow reached the front of the line, and they will afterward be able to launch the devotion and officially sign-in and start using BBM.

The BBM app is compatible with GALAXY and other Samsung smartphone procedure so as to run Android 4.0 (Ice-Cream Sandwich) and beyond. Data charges might apply, as dogged by area operators and service providers.


For more in rank on BBM in support of Samsung Android procedure, please visit www.Bbm.Com. For customer service or technical assistance: Http://www.Bbm.Com/support/android