Press Release from RIM: http://press.rim.com/newsroom/press/2012/bbm-now-lets-you-have-voice-chats-for-free-over-wi-fi.html
RIM has released a Beta of BBM (Blackberry Messenger) that supports VOIP between BBM users over WiFi.
The Beta is available here https://beta.webapps.blackberry.com/login/
From the press release "BBM version 7 with the new BBM Voice feature is currently available in
Beta for BlackBerry smartphones running the BlackBerry® 6 OS or higher."
I have a Blackberry Bold 9780, though I am planning on switching to a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 this Christmas, in large part because I don't have a lot of hope that Blackberry will survive their business mistakes.
I would be happy to be wrong about this, because I really like several features that Blackberry phones have, that no one else does.
Their security is a big one, though newer iPhones (iPhone 4S or newer) have good enough security to replace that functionality.
I also really like the optical track pad of newer Blackberry's, for me that works a lot better than touchscreens, this is a big part of the reason I am going to the Galaxy Note II, the Stylus will provide precision, that I can't get otherwise with touchscreens.
BBM is the third big thing I will miss about Blackberry, if your not familiar with it, it works like Skype Chat, though probably a bit more secure than Microsoft's Skype, considering the news about Skype's password reset hack.
I have been looking at PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) to replace that element.
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