BBMe Desktop, First Impressions Gone Loopy Great...

Communicating while sharing screens

I invited a friend to install BBMe for a test run and just the simple barrier of convincing this friend that the $5 a year subscription after a year free trail is worth it was overcome once this friend saw what both the phone App and desktop BBMe can do.

After our test today, this friend is going to share his experiences he had with me today with others. And so I am doing a little of my part in letting others know what a great solid and responsive communication tool that BBMe has become in it's short history.

You will not see any emojis or layering of dragons over your face. What you will find is a robust set of features and tools for both text and voice/video communications with screen and app view sharing that goes both ways.

I will go through each screen shot as to illuminate a discovered feature or function.

1. Screen sharing from the other end:

I am able to view the other ends screen, with the option to view anything they are viewing.

2. Dual sharing on both ends of the communication of screens.

Here we are able to share both our screens with each other and easy access for any of us to disable the sharing with a quick click on the top middle of screen.

3. Communicated elsewhere on BBMe Desktop while on a call sharing screens:

Here I am communicating on the BBMe Support Group in BBMe and talking and sharing screens with my friend at the same time.

4. Sharing desktop audio (music):

Here my friend increases volume of the app playing music and now I am able to hear that music.

5. My sharing audio to my friend:

I increase the volume of my music (Piano Bar) to share with my friend.

6. Either I can share view of my full screen or a specific app I have loaded.

7.  What another screen app looks like if you share only one app view.

For your privacy, if you share screen of only one app then any other apps will be grayed out.

Any PDF files or other files are stored locally on each machine of everyone in the share (ie as in a group) and will have the file on their computer when they connect. And as such the file opens locally from your computer.

I hope that this short documented experience will give you an idea if you would like to use BBMe on your Desktop and or Phone. This article may be updated as I discover and begin to use new features on the Desktop application.

Regards,

Jason Page

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BBMe to replace BBM (BlackBerry Messenger)...

If you have been using BBM for years you probably have received the "goodbye" message, stating that on May 31st, BBM services will be withdrawn and anything hosting on the service will cease to exist.

It was to little service to users to let them know that BlackBerry would be offering their corporate messaging services to consumers for a small fee of $5 a year (first year is free.) You can find this service in your Android and iOS app store under "BBMe" and the 'e' is for enterprise.

It offers the no thrills services you depend on for secure messaging, only all hosted and provided for by BlackBerry, as it should.

BBMe offers the following privacy features: authentication via PIN, timed messages, retractable messages, and private chats. It's also usable cross-platform so you can even access BBM on your desktop computer.

The problem with BBM is it tried to attract the mainstream crowd of users and offered a bunch of unnecessary features such as stickers and emojis that served no purpose to the more important use of secure messaging.

They failed to compete with everyone else when BBM should have just stayed where they where at. In a way they have, with the offerings of BlackBerry Messenger Enterprise to consumers.

Signup today and enjoy secure calls over wifi and secure messaging with secure features. BlackBerry prides themselves on not selling your information to third parties which they claim their competitors do in order to offer their service as free.

As the saying goes, you can't get anything free. Somewhere a bill is being paid to supply your service. So duly support BlackBerry in their effort to offer you their service for secure messaging. One BBMe member, "Andy" responded to me:

"Hopefully it will get some momentum. I think the small fee is worth it to use a stable and privacy focused messenger with no adverts that doesn’t trade off your personal data."

Some quotes from BBMe users:

"Some consumers are using encrypted messaging powered by companies like Google, Facebook, or their carriers, all of whom aggregate, monetize (and therefore risk compromise of) personal information." - bb10adopter111, Crackberry Forums

"For a $5 a year, you get a securely encrypted collaboration tool that does not require a phone number, that works cross-platform, supports individual and groups messaging, timed messages and retraction, protects against screenshots, does not collect user data for monetization purposes, has clear audio and video, screen sharing and can be used on multiple devices simultaneously." - Matt J, Crackberry Forums

"The messenger deserves to be tried. It's miles better than the old BBM and also better and safer than many other messengers. It fits well with the security philosophy of a BlackBerry smartphone, and that's another fact." - Paulelmar18, Crackberry Forums

For more information on BBMe visit [https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/messaging/bbm-enterprise/overview]

Sincerely,
Jason S. Page
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