App of the Week: KIK Brings BBM To All!

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iPhone and Andorid users no longer need to feel left out that they can’t ask people for their pins, but will need to change their lingo to username. Thanks to a new App KIK, which the company claims brings “Free Real-Time Texting For All”.

KIK is universal, which means it is cross platform. This means one can be messaging friends on a Blackberry, Android and an iPhone all at once. It pushes the notifications to you just like a standard text message or BBM. It also displays when the text has been sent, delivered and read, something very familiar for Blackberry users.

To get started, just download the app onto your device and it will ask you for your first and last name, a username and to optionally enter your phone number. This is something you should do, this way KIK will tell people with your phone number that you now have KIK, automatically. It will also tell you those who are in your phonebook who already have KIK.

Now for Blackberry users looking to join in, the app has been so highly downloaded that they have had to suspend Blackberry downloads and they will be opening it up to new Blackberry users as soon as possible. This is not surprising as the small company went from 0 users to 1 million users in just 15 days.

Now for BlackBerry users that will say this is not BBM, KIK’s CEO points out that “For all of us that know and love BBM, we know that between BlackBerrys nothing will ever compare to BBM. But when you want that experience with your iPhone and Android friends as well, the new KIK Messenger should be your go to.”