Serious question: What makes BBM better than Whatsapp?

[interkaiser44]

Well even after all I've said I use bbm basically ZITCH compared to whatsapp, not sure why I guess bbm to me seems girly and childish and whatsapp just gets to the point

I use it for business and personal only downside is late night texts are risky and I shy away from them

Lol

Personally to me if whatsapp got recent updates etc it wouldn't matter rather piss me off as I have THOUSANDS of contacts I don't even know so I wouldn't even scroll through that

"Aint nobody got time fo' dat' lol

Glad to see the competition tun up still, 20 million new bbm users is a good start I think...

I thought about that same issue, but there is an easy solution to that, lets say the AVERAGE person has 200 numbers in their phonebook, and thats a gross overestimation, the only thing whatsapp would have to do is allow you to select whom you'd wanna see updates from,similar to fb's "close friends" feature that notifies you whenever a person from your close friends list makes a post or etc

[jomo]

Well I figured that as much, you could edit favorites BUT 'favorites' in my whatsapp is simply people who, wait, lol, a true, people who I talk to

So that makes sense

What doesn't is bbm to me has become a station for IDLERS

Idle broadcasts

(A girl bc some CRAP in whatsapp one morning and heard some rather nasty words from me, I don't play that in whatsapp, LOL) idle status' etc

Whatsapp to me is serious business, as you have whatsapp contact you have their # and can call easily so its more of a 'can I see you tonight' than a 'PING!!!' In bbm

Way how mi sick a bbm when I get my s4 mini duo I doubt ill even add anyone exept my work bbm group if I download bbm in the playstore

The bag a chattin chattin was never my style in a phone anyway

[chig]

oh this start up back? I compiled a list of things from other day of the differences I see on the 'other os' versions (ie not on blackberry phones). soon post it



This is what I've learned:
-Adding friends to a convo does not automatically make it a group. And when you do that only voice notes can be shared.
-Creating a group even among mutual friends requires invitations and joins. That's a positive I guess.
-To share pictures with the group you're required to leave the chat window and add the pictures from the group home page. Tedious and inconvenient.
-Good stuff tho is things like Events and Lists
-Videos cannot be shared in this version of BBM
-Pictures are compressed to less than 30kb on average when sharing. QUALITY SUFFERS IMMENSELY!

Got a friend to send me a pic in BBM, then asked him to send that very same pic to me in whatsapp

[GPRS Internet]

The only Advantage WhatsApp have over BBM for me is that it can send/receive Larger Size Videos,.. That's about it..

Chig,.. In BBM on a BlackBerry BB Click on the Pic and Select Request Higher Quality..
For Droid/iOS Tap and Hold the Pic,. Then Select Request Higher Quality.

[chig]

No such option. I don't see any possible way to share any video at all in BBM. I can't share from the video and it sure aint in the "attach" drawer

nvm, i see request high quality after I long press the thumbnail from the convo (not when viewing the pic). Now why is that necessary?

[GPRS Internet]

No such option. I don't see any possible way to share any video at all in BBM. I can't share from the video and it sure aint in the "attach" drawer

nvm, i see request high quality after I long press the picture from the convo (not when viewing it). Now why is that necessary?

iOS cant send Videos Just Yet... It can receive thou.. Android can send/receive
Sending the Pic at a Lower Quality using much less Data...

[chig]

15kbs tho... sorry i cant help but say this. BBM on Android really does replicate that BB feeling, it sorta takes me back in time.

[GPRS Internet]

I send much bigger than 15kbs

[Cultus]

if I had to choose one I would choose, BBM. BBM offers me more privacy, security and control over my device and who has access to me.

[King_Jay16]

if I had to choose one I would choose, BBM. BBM offers me more privacy, security and control over my device and who has access to me.

Agree. I use whatsapp, but there are number of problems with whatsapp that makes me weary of it.