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Posted by Rip12345 Monday, May 02, 2011 380 days ago

Finally!!

 
 
Posted by TechNerd.McLeod Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Agreed! It took so long, but I knew it would come! And A day before expected too! Thank you RIM, sometimes you amaze me!

 
 
Posted by afallnstar Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

That was long? The Playbook wasn't even released two weeks ago o_O

 
 
Posted by doug1010 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Yes Finally! It took soooooo long! I'm an old man now! :P

More like: Wow that was fast! Only two weeks :O! Thanks!

Pessimistic person: "Grumble grumble it should have been here at launch grumble"

Well, now it's here. Awesome :) Happy is me.

 
 
Posted by Jay Khat Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

I KNOW FINALLY!!!

 
 
Posted by Nesquik Monday, May 02, 2011 380 days ago

YES!!

 
 
Posted by 07thking Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Finally!!!!!!!

Edit: My groups are not being listed, has anyone else experienced this?

 
 
Posted by shupor Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

updating my Bridge now. Already had BBM 6 from the beta zone.....SOooooooo excited

 
 
Posted by enzo07i Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

"Tonight I went to check to see if there was an update for my BlackBerry PlayBook via the Software update tab in the settings and I was very surprise to see that there was. I wasn’t really expecting to see much but I was very surprised with what I did see. A new icon appeared for video chat! Tablet OS 1.0.3.1868 apparently brings us video chat! I haven’t got much time to play with it but look below to see the screen shots from the set up page." -berryreporter

 
 
Posted by enzo07i Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

here's article link
http://www.berryreporter.com/2011/05/02/blackberry-playbook-os-update-to...

 
 
Posted by The Consigliere Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

SWEET, can't wait for an OS 5 compatible version

 
 
Posted by mister160 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

the one day i left my playbook at home and theres a ton of updates. =(

i'm almost contemplating going home just to get it. lol

 
 
Posted by pmich Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

hahaha i would too.

 
 
Posted by orhanusta Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

excellent!!!

 
 
Posted by kb2755 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

finally! on mine right now and i'm loving it

 
 
Posted by Syranetic_the_Heretic Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

GREAT!! (NOT). Blackberry beta zone is closed so guess I just sit here without BBM on my playbook. Thanks RIM for only letting a select few have access to betas.

Retards.

 
 
Posted by datta72 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

You've had over a year to join, shame on u for waiting so long.

 
 
Posted by parabola Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Some early observations:

- it works for sending/receiving messages, that's the important thing!
- it really is a window to the device: when first loading, it showed all the current chats that I had ongoing on my BB
- autotext working!
- BBM icon now shows in notification area of PlayBook -- but like the one for email messages, it's buggy and doesn't always go away after reading the new BBM message

- within a chat, you can bring up a menu to PING, send an attachment (usual PB screen for Pics/Videos/Music/Documents or something from your Bridged BB's files), or invite to a group chat

- it's great having a nice long chat window when in portrait mode
-- in portrait mode, the chat window takes up about 90% of the width. In the left hand side is a strip of contact avatars, but there doesn't appear to be any functionality. You click anywhere on it and it just hides the current chat and shows the contact list full screen. Would be cool if you tapped an avatar and then opened up a chat window for that person. But they'd have the make the strip of avatars scrollable, which it doesn't appear to be.
-- in landscape mode, the chat window is about 2/3 of the width, with the contact list on the left showing avatars, display names, and status. This layout offers the expected features mentioned above (easily open up chat window by tapping contact, scrolling through contact list while leaving current chat window open)

- no grouping of your contact list is ported over -- everyone just shows up under 'Contacts'

- no apparent integration with Bridged Contact list, if you happen to have your BBM list connected with your BB contacts. Tapping on a contact shows display name, PIN, Status, Timezone and location flag. Tapping avatar shows a larger version.

- no options to change layout; cannot tap/select a message to see date/time when it was sent

- a little laggy after hitting return on a message until it shows up in the chat bubble above
- first time I hit the button for smileys it took it's sweet time to load up. Seems fine after that.

- scrolling within contact list and chat window seems nice and smooth. Attached images you have received open up fine.

- you can change your own status by tapping on your avatar. It shows your display pic (tap on it to change), display name and personal message, as well as your status (dropdown to change between Available and Busy), PIN and PIN barcode.
-- it's not immediately obvious how to save your changed display message. You type in the entry field, but there's no option to save and all you can do is tap to go elsewhere in the app. After editing my status, it hasn't changed on the contact list view on my PB, but it appears to have changed fine per by BB.

I think that's about it for now! It functions fine and that's what I'm happy to see; still plenty of little things to polish up, but it's a start!

 
 
Posted by wonda242 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

I have 170 BBM contacts and it's LAGGY!!

 
 
Posted by macallik Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

can't wait to test this later..

 
 
Posted by Willeonabe Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

There is an OS5 compatible version of Bridge .83 I'm in the middle of the reboot from installing it. Looks like .83 was pushed out via App world this morning.

 
 
Posted by The Consigliere Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

But those on AT&T need it posted elsewhere which sucks, can't get it thru App World, unless something has changed.

 
 
Posted by greatness10 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

http://www.bbh-plus.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2083 there you go for all you at&t users

 
 
Posted by rev_jim Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

This is still for OS6. Is there an OTA for OS5 for us AT&T users???

Found the thread/link I needed:

http://forums.crackberry.com/f222/blackberry-bridge-v1-0-0-83-os5-os6-ot...

Thanks rroyy!!

 
 
Posted by rev_jim Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago
 
 
Posted by santana111 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Just downloaded it and it works great. Had todo a battery pull for the updated BBM to show up as a update in App World. Other than that it work really well.

 
 
Posted by steppi Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Yes I RIM KEEP EM COMING ,It works great and am loving it ,great job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
 
Posted by slablaxer10 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

why cant i get an update on my playbook?!

 
 
Posted by ruiner666 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Have a Curve 8530 and I can't get an update for Bridge in app world. Also no update for Playbook OS

 
 
Posted by ruiner666 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Nevermind< up and running!

 
 
Posted by thpsrulr Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

I have a Bold 9650 (OS 6.0) and PB (OS .1710) but no update to my bridge app or PB. I have a beta version of BBM 6.0 on my BB. How did you get yours to show up finally?

 
 
Posted by kariakoo Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

after updates and open BBM, the page keep on say " blackberry messenger End-User licence agreement not accepted on your device.... ANY IDEA whats the problems?

EDIT; its working now, i forgot to accept user agreement for bbm on my phone. more updates needed though thanx

 
 
Posted by tezytan Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

In think you will need:
BBM v 5.0.3.22 is now available to download. The update is available via BlackBerry App World.

New features include:

* Support for Hindi and Vietnamese
* Simplified sending of pictures and voice notes
* More user-friendly wording and organization in menus
* Support for a simpler, one line view of contact list Support for both deleting an unsent chat message (Shift-Del) and escaping out of a chat while retaining an unsent chat message (Escape button)

 
 
Posted by dasilvetz Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

I really was hoping they would make BBM for PlayBook available for non-blackberry users as well.. after all the PlayBook IS a BlackBerry device. Why limit to BlackBerry smartphone users? I have n iPhone 4 and a PlayBook, so I guess I'll never have BBM.

 
 
Posted by Nesquik Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

until rim ports bbm to other platforms i dont think we arw going to see bbm on wifi devices -- only on 3/4g carrier models

 
 
Posted by br14 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

I have a feeling you will see it soon.

Yesterday for the first time, I noticed that my Torch 9800 was able to use BBM over wi-fi. I had the wireless switched off for testing.

In other words, it didn't go via the carrier wireless network.(Possible it was tunneled via UMA).

So in theory BBM should be able to work on any wi-fi enabled device. The BB symbol was alongside the wi-fi symbol - so I guess the access is via BIS direct. It's possible access was via UMA, but at least it means access is feasible.

 
 
Posted by mooda Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

all the decvice needs is a way to get in touch with rims noc. so once your device is registered on the carriers bis it just needs a data connection to re connect wifi even without the carrier's wireless signal.

 
 
Posted by jimmy7009 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Man What the F.... I just downloaded bridge on my phone the update and I am current with my updates on my playbook but don't see my bbm on the Playbook... How did you guys get yours to work

 
 
Posted by ciscobear Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

You need BBM 5.322 as well......happened to me as well :)

Currently dloading thru appworld on PC as phone based Appworld doesn't have it for me as yet.

 
 
Posted by OniMessiah Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Maybe I'm a special case, but I was able to download 5.0.3.22 through App World. I can also confirm that BBM is working for me through the new version of Bridge.

 
 
Posted by SMCNI1968 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

It's telling me that I haven't accepted the bbm end user licence on my playbook?

 
 
Posted by greatness10 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

go into bbm on your phone and run it. You have to accept user license there first.

 
 
Posted by SMCNI1968 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

ok saw the above :)

 
 
Posted by Pilot_Berry Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Working well, needs a bigger emoticon pop up I think.

 
 
Posted by jimmy7009 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

I am on the phone with RIM they said BBM hasn't been released... I am pissed how does everyone one else have it and I don't ... what did you guys do to get it?

 
 
Posted by phaser0422 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

go to this link on your web browser! to download new BBM

http://blackberry.com/messenger

updated v5.0.3.22 for those who dont want to wait for AppWorld

 
 
Posted by JuNic05 Tuesday, May 03, 2011 379 days ago

Thanks phaser0422 for pointing this out. Downloading the update now. This is why I love Crackberry.com

 
 
Posted by biggietoms Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

nice i like it, just make the bridge browser faster.

 
 
Posted by The Consigliere Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago
 
 
Posted by muama6 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Did anyone knows where can I download OTA for OS5???

 
 
Posted by Rob Robertson Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Im using a Bold 9780 on Rogers and the new versions of BBM and Bridge were not available. I had to jump around to several websites to find updates. Took me 45 minutes longer than it should have.

Why can't RIM push updates to App World at the same time for everyone? They're < 3MB downloads!

Very frustrating.

Anyways, I got it working. Seems to work fine. No support for BBM Groups which is annoying.
I'm glad that now I can read ebooks/browse the web on my PB at night without needing my phone nearby as well.
Here's hoping they add BBM Groups support soon.

 
 
Posted by Hennessy62082 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Oh this is sweet! Now we need SMS & MMS

 
 
Posted by Ryoohk Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

i kinda dont want SMS or MMS on there because if some one is looking at it or useing it i dont want them to be looking ya know

 
 
Posted by Hennessy62082 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Yeah...it could have its ups and downs.

 
 
Posted by robertdusa Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

How is it exactly that having BBM on the PlayBook is okay, but SMS/MMS isn't? BBM msgs are still using the BB itself to send/receive BBMs. All the Bridge is doing is acting as an interface via local http. Everything is still on the BB itself. So if you're worried about someone "looking over your shoulder", the net outcome is the same whether it's an SMS or BBM.

 
 
Posted by jmarkey77 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Makes me miss spell check, predictive typing, and an editable auto correct list even more. Outside of that its pretty cool.

 
 
Posted by teamfoster03 Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

awesome news! Thank you RIM and thsoe who posted the OTA for AT&T

 
 
Posted by gundamunda Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

This just gets sweeter and sweeter!!!!! I was too lazy to read the previous posts, but the good ol' ALT RST gave me the update for Bridge in AppWorld (sorry if reposting)

 
 
Posted by corbella Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

Working great, even on AT&T. Make sure you have latest BBM and Bridge versions.

 
 
Posted by RichardZA Monday, May 02, 2011 379 days ago

I am already downloading blackberry bridge without any issues the latest version - before it would give me not available in your region etc but I am very disappointed that it nearly took RIM a month to actually deploy this - HQ should work faster in future and not wait for BlackBerry world to announce it.

 
 
Posted by rkoranek Tuesday, May 03, 2011 378 days ago

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any body have info on SMS?

 
 
Posted by Gamesdmc3 Tuesday, May 03, 2011 378 days ago

Finally!!!,BBM you sexy tease you :)

 
 
Posted by superman1867 Wednesday, May 04, 2011 378 days ago

Everything is working great, except I can't figure out how to close a chat. Am I missing something?

 
 
Posted by MrsSmith05 Tuesday, May 24, 2011 357 days ago

I have updated and still no BBM..am I looking in the right place? Gah..I hate being technologically stunted...