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Living in Blackberry Heaven.. Indonesia
I have been living in Indonesia for 5 months, its an amazing place especially if your fan of blackberry. The country is rapidly developing and has a very large tech savvy young population. So I would like to share a few insights from my time here as a �Bule� in the land of blackberry.
BBM usage here is unreal no matter what the smartphone the person is rocking they are usually hooked onto bbm. Unless someone owns a feature phone or android device that can�t upgrade to 4.0.
Various android devices makers heavily advertise BBM in print, billboards and television. For example check out this commercial which airs quite frequently on television.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alxp9_Ep5wE
Many businesses have bbm pins written on their cards and adversities on posters and vehicles. For instance my hotel, laundry guy and hair salon all have pins.
That being said the instant messaging completion is fierce. Kako Talk is attempting to buy customers by partnering with places like McDonalds to promote their messenger. While Line and wechat (which I now love) have adverts everywhere. As a side note wechat features are awesome I hope the bbm team is taking note.
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Nonetheless when it comes to reliability, bbm is the messenger of choice, This was most evident when I was outside an airport waiting for a friend�s plane to arrive. Every single device around me whether a tablet or smartphone was on bbm.
Blackberry 10
Blackberry 10 sales seem to be going quite well here. I haven�t seen any actual sales figures, nonetheless I see BB10 devices daily.. mostly q10s followed by z10s and the odd q5s.
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Indonesian App Developers have not hesitated to port their android apps over to bb10 or create one natively. I would say the whole region in general have been supportive of Blackberry 10. There are big name apps like Air Asia and little useful ones like Singapore�s� Changi Airport,. As well companies here often promote their apps by placing the blackberry world logo before Apple or Google play.
Anyways I�m on a prepaid blackberry 10 plan that costs $ 5.6 USA a month and strangely I only paid once and worked ever since that�s 5 months for 5 bucks� love this country.
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