Start a BBM chat
Use BBM to chat in real-time with your BlackBerry contacts and know when someone has read your message. Share pictures, voice notes, your location, or other files.
Unlike text messaging, where you might pay for each text message that you send or receive regardless of how brief the message might be, BBM uses your data plan so that you can can express yourself in as many, or as few, messages as you want.
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Tap
.
- Tap a contact.
- Type your message or select an emoticon.
- Press the Send key.
After you finish:
Tip: Have something that you want to share with multiple contacts?
Send a broadcast message or start a multiperson chat to let your contacts know your
news at the same time.
Send a file or ping someone
You can send different types of files to BBM
contacts,
including pictures, voice notes, your location, events, etc. When you ping someone in
BBM, the other person's BlackBerry device
vibrates (unless it's set to Silent) and the person sees the word PING in red.
- To hide the keyboard, tap anywhere in the chat history.
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Do one of the following:
- To attach a file, tap
. - To ping the contact, tap
>
.
- To attach a file, tap
Peek at your chats
While in a chat, you can quickly peek at your other chats.
- To hide the keyboard, tap anywhere in the chat history.
- Slide your finger right.
Send a broadcast message
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Tap >
.
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Type in the field, or tap
to
select a few contacts from your address book and tap
Done.
- Type your message.
- Tap Send.
Invite others to a chat
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In your chat, tap
. You might need to hide the keyboard to see the
icon.
- Select some contacts.
- Tap Done.
After you finish:
Tip: To start a new chat with multiple people from your BBM contact list, touch and hold a name. Tap 
and a few
more names. Tap 
.
and a few
more names. Tap .Was this information helpful? Send us your comments.