BBM Coming To Windows Phone; Undergoing Last Phase Of Testing

BlackBerry has informed that it will bring the BlackBerry Messenger to the Windows Phone. We expected it to be similar to the one on Android, a ported app on Windows platform, confusing the those who were used to a simple and clean UI. Surprisingly this is not the case.

The BlackBerry Messenger for Windows Phone has been built from scratch. The BlackBerry team has delivered a Modern UI experience and the app has three tabs/sections tagged as the chats, feeds and contacts.

All the three parts have been designed according to the Modern UI guidelines and will hopefully be compatible with Windows Phone 8.1, which will be launched in just a weeks. The chats section will display both individual and group chats, while the feeds section similar to other BBM apps displays what your BBM contacts are up to. The contacts section on the other hand groups all your contacts together regardless of whether it’s an individual, or a BBM Group.

While the Beta requests have been up and running for just a day, BlackBerry seems to have already gotten quite a few users to sign up and has already closed the invite for Beta testers for its app. The app is supposed to be ready according to the blog post on the official Inside Blackberry blog and is undergoing the last phase of external testing, which should be done in a few weeks. The roll out eventually will be a smooth one since Windows Phone has a tighter control over external app installs compared to Android which certainly turned out to be a mess