In an email I received today from RadiumOne Labs, the developers of PingMe, have decided to cease all BlackBerry and Windows Phone support starting December 31st of this year.

PingMe is a cross-platform messaging application similar to BBM. The app has gotten many mixed reactions due to freezing up, battery drain and the dreaded spinning clock so I’m not really shocked by this news. It did have several nice features including integrated news feed, push notifications, friend finder and the always favorite FREE for Life. Sadly it looks like that life is going to be a short lived one.

The official email from RadiumOne Labs is below.

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Back in November of last year, we ran a post on a cross-platform messaging application called PingMe. The app received mixed emotions mostly due to major battery drain and spinning clocks.

Now RadiumOne Labs, the developer of PingMe, has released a major update with some fixes to a few issues our readers complained about. The main draw for this app was the similarity to BBM’s real time message receipts with family and friends across different platforms as well as a pretty slick UI.

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Cross-platform messaging applications are popping out all over lately but few deliver like our beloved BBM. The latest competitor in the arena is called PingMe. Shockingly, it is very similar to BlackBerry's native application. With PingMe, you can message all those traitors friends who are on other platforms while enjoying the following features:

• Cross-platform: iOS, BlackBerry, Android and Windows 7 coming soon
• Real Time Message Receipts: see when your friends are typing as well as sent/delivered/read receipts
• Group Chats: create groups for family, co-workers or friends with similar interests 
• Register using your phone number so no PINs or IDs to remember
• Free! We all love when an app is free and one that delivers an experience like this one with a promise that it will always be free is a wonderful thing
• Social News Feeds: see all your friend's updates in one location
• Geo-Location: find your friends who are nearby with geo-location enabled messages
• Push notifications:PingMe lets you know when you have a message even when it's closed
• Friend Finder: simply use you address book to search for any friends already using PingMe

The UI is clean and simple with customization options available for both the background and message box colors (I've always wanted these features in BBM). I have family on all platforms and have been searching for an instant messaging application just like this for all of us to use. Now I can use PingMe to see when my husband's ignoring my texts on his iPhone just like I do when I BBM him on his BlackBerry.

For more information / download of PingMe