Microsoft's Windows phones will have Blackberry's messenger service this summer.
The app will be available on smartphones with Windows, and Nokia's X platform this summer when users transfer it to their mobile devices free of charge according to an announcement at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain. CBC News reported Monday.
"BBM continues to grow in popularity as millions of people use our mobile platform for chatting and connecting with friends or colleagues, and we are very excited that we will soon welcome Windows Phone and Nokia X users to the BBM community," John Sims, president of Global Enterprise Solutions said in a statement CBC news reported.
Android, and iPhone devices got the app Feb. 13, and can now also voice call using the BBM features.
Users are also now able to locate friends without entering a pin via a new Find a Friend option on the app. Blackberry is also trying out never before seen sticks from its new BBM store
Blackberry lost $646 million, last year, when its revenue significantly decreased 40 percent to $11 billion The Wall Street Journal reported. This year, the company lost four million subscribers and suffered another decrease of $84 million in the fiscal quarter that ended June 1.
Blackberry made a smaller amount of cuts over the summer from its sales, and research, and development departments The Journal reported. This comes just a year after the company let go 5,000 people.
Blackberry had 12,700 employees as of March, which was the last time it revealed a total number. Two years ago, over 17,000 employees worked at the company based in Waterloo, Ontario Canada. Blackberry also had control of 14 percent of the smartphone business. This has since dropped to less than three percent.
The Mobile World Congress is happening until Thursday.
