Skype on BlackBerry Available Very Soon (but only for the Z10)

On Wednesday, BlackBerry announced that it will be adding one more app to its growing number of smartphone applications. The new app, Skype on BlackBerry, will be available in the latest BlackBerry 10 phones. This was announced one day after the phone company’s announcement that BlackBerry Q10 smartphones will hit the stores in Canada by the first of May, while it will be available in the United States by the end of the same month. It will be powered by BlackBerry’s own BB OS, the second smartphone device to have this OS. It will also come with the very-well received BlackBerry physical keyboard.

Skype, owned by Microsoft since 2011 is an Internet phone application that provides users the convenience of messaging as well as video and voice chatting without the use of a conventional phone setup. Millions of individual and corporate users around the world enjoy its free and paid services.

Z10 users need not lament as Skype will be upgraded shortly so it could be installed on the touchscreen device.

While BlackBerry is among the four major mobile phone brands in the market, users have lamented its lack of apps compared to other smartphones. Therefore this announcement is welcome news to its millions of users around the world.

BlackBerry smartphone

The smartphone is manufactured by Research In Motion, shortened to RIM. It is a Canada-based company located in Waterloo, Ontario. The first ever product they released was the 1999 email pager. A BlackBerry phone has been developed as a personal digital assistant with a high level of security. It has all the features of a smartphone including the sending and receiving of push emails, instant messaging, recording and playback of videos, creating and sending email, web browsing, music playback and more.

The phone is the sixth most popular in the world and is available in 91 countries. It has registered 80 million subscribers around the world in 2012, and had shipped 200 million units by September 2012.

In the United States, BlackBerry is called CrackBerry due to the undue use of the phone by its owners.