Instant Messaging

Take your instant messenger wherever you take your BlackBerry® smartphone. Instant messaging (IM) applications work together with BlackBerry smartphones¹ to provide a mobile messenger to stay online when you’re on the go. Now you can stay in touch with your IM contacts using BlackBerry Instant Messenger — no matter where you are or what you’re doing.

Enjoy many of the BBM and IM messenger features you already enjoy on your computer on your BlackBerry smartphone, including:

• A familiar user interface
• Availability status
• Contact access and management
• Notifications to tell you when you receive a new message
• Emoticons that help you express yourself

Stay in touch with your personal and business contacts

BlackBerry Instant Messaging can be combined with several IM services. Download your favourite IM service to your phone and get connected immediately. BlackBerry smartphones support the following instant messaging applications².

• BlackBerry Messenger
• Yahoo!® Messenger for BlackBerry® Smartphones
• Google Talk™ for BlackBerry® Smartphones
• Windows® Live Messenger for BlackBerry® Smartphones
  • View a Flash demo
• IBM® Lotus® Sametime
• Microsoft® Office Communicator and Live Communications Server 2005
• Novell® GroupWise® Messenger

¹Check with service provider for availability of browser feature and email account support, roaming arrangements, coverage, and service plans. Certain features outlined herein require a certain BlackBerry smartphone or a minimum version of BlackBerry® DesktopSoftware and/or BlackBerry® Device Software.
²When you subscribe for, acquire, or use third party products and services with RIM products or services you accept that: 1. It is your sole responsibility to (a) ensure that your airtime service provider will support all of their features; (b) identify and acquire all required intellectual property and other licences prior to installation or use and to comply with the terms of such licences; 2. RIM provides such products and services on an “AS IS” basis with no express or implied conditions, endorsements, guarantees, representations or warranties of any kind, and assumes no liability whatsoever with respect to them.