Thread: Blackberry Messenger on N900?
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buchanmilne is offline buchanmilne
2010-10-12 , 10:27
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Originally Posted by etuoyo View Post
Well that assumes we have control over what others are doing. Take my situation for example. I am Nigerian but live in the UK. 99% of my family are in Nigeria and like 90% of my friends. In Nigeria every man, woman and dog is using blackberry because of blackberry messanger.
MTN Nigeria has 40 million "subscribers", and 65 000 of those are Blackberry subscribers. So, I don't think even every man has a blackberry. I guess next someone is going to say everyone has an iPhone too. Even though most have more than one phone, I haven't seen anyone with both Blackberry and iPhone.

Now I have to carry two devices around. One for chatting and one for everything else. Oh how I wish Nokia had been the one that came up with this incredible chat.
Nokia had ovi chat before Blackberry was popular in Africa.

Funny thing is the whole of Nigeria was using Nokias before they switched to blackberry just for messanger. Huge missed opportunity there by Nokia.

I hate my blackberry though. Super ugly and super boring device. Now if some magician could make my blackberry chat appear on my N900 so I could dump the blackberry in a pit where it belongs I would be soooo happy.
Funny thing is, everyone in Nigeria uses yahoo for free mail accounts. What an opportunity missed by Google ....

IMHO, the biggest factor is that Blackberry *requires* IP access, so providers have to supply IP access to blackberry users. If all Nokia phones which supported chat over GPRS or 3G or so were actually provided with such access by default, then Nigerians would be using Ovi chat.