K.I.K. Free BBM To iPhone Messaging

BlackBerry enthusiasts live for their BBM (BlackBerry Messenger). How many times have you tried to get your iPhone fanatic friends to switch to BlackBerry so you can message them in real-time, and for free!? Well you can’t always win them over, but at least you can compromise thanks to a service called KiK.

KiK is a third party application for both BlackBerry & iPhone that lets you message your friends in real-time, for FREE!

Here’s how it works. Point your BlackBerry browser to http://kik.com/m , or your iPhone to http://www.kik.com/download to download and install the app. Once you register your phone, KiK will check your address book for other friend’s who use KiK and instantly add them to your KiK buddy list. Now you can instantly message them for FREE, and in real-time, just like BBM!

Another great feature is FREE SMS. KiK will provide you with a local number that you can use to SMS text your friends who don’t have the KiK service for up to free 50 text messages every month. After you reach your 50 text limit they ask you to purchase more. But that’s feature is just a perk to the universal BBM style service they provide.

Send this to all your BlackBerry and iPhone friends and Get KiKing!

[UPDATE] Tera, KiK’s Community Manager, let us know that KiK is available for Android as well! Now we can all chat for free together! Download the Android Beta version HERE!

Author: Doctor Klein
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  • @cmcalkins

    I dislike anything that takes BBM away from it’s dedicated users. F*#k the iPhone…

  • http://flavors.me/doctorklein Doctor Klein

    This isn’t meant as an alternative for BlackBerry Messenger. It’s just a tool for people with iphones to communicate with blackberry users for free without using sms or email. I personally do not have an unlimited text plan so this really helps me stay in touch with my iphone buddies.

  • Leslie WRG

    long live the iPhone4. Name me a blackberry that’s better?

  • @tera_kristen

    Hey! I’m Tera the Community Manager at Kik. I just want to say great article – and I’m glad that Kik is working out for you :) Just want to let you know that it’s available for Android as well.

    Lots of changes coming up – we are so committed to making this a killer app…

  • Sarah Karp Ward

    What BlackBerry is better? Lorne’s vintage BlackBerry World Edition.

  • simplyRik

    I noticed that iPhone4 is not listed. It only goes up to the 3GS.

  • Leslie WRG

    works on my iPhone 4. Talking with Doctor Klein all day

  • Yann

    Any Blackberry is WAY better then the colest iphone.. its simply i find stupid that Apple come with a product that is already outdated… for 800 bucks…..

    Look at The Experia, the Droid X, The Torch, Storm 2, Evo… Any of them wont ever go as slowly then an iPhone of the “New Generation”

    BUT.. This app is Awesome.. really.. tried it on my Torch and worked perfectly whit iPhone users !

    (BTW i dont Hate Apple.. i like their products.. but they’re ruining the name with thoses phones)

  • Leslie WRG

    The 4G data speed is annoying not to have on the iPhone, other than that, it’s miles ahead of the competition IMO.

    If not the phone itself, the way it connects and works with itunes, photo software, mail software, etc… It compliments your computer better than Blackberry or Nokia ever has.

    I have yet to test a droid

  • Yann

    True !

    By experience.. iPhone was and will always be APP Dedicated.. Almost any usefull app ( 10.. 15% ? ) Wich cost something in the app store is free on android.. BUT DAMN THERES SO MANY APP IN THE APP STORE

    iPhone 4g got a SPLENDID resolution ! And iphone users usually use their phone for media.. its not the fastest.. i can say that.. but its honestly the reliabillity that i envy to the iphone.. for the rest.. still adaptation to the network..

    Honestly.. i had the 2g and.. i can say.. it was the best phone i ever had.. (Before i got the Torch :P ) when 3g came out the network got saturated so fast that it wasnt even slow.. it was static on it.. RIP 2g

    BTW Leslie (Litle scoop) Videotron got their 4g Network almost ALL OPERATIVE till the end of the year.. thats why they didnt release any phones last years (Any smart ones)

    Its gonna be the only 4g Network fully operative in canada.. as i know.. (didnt google it.. infos i had from a Videotron Executive) iPhone 4g will be sold by Videotron.. as the Only Distributor of the EVO (Not sure for the Droid X he didnt wanted to talk about it)

    So, while we wait for a real good fast networks.. lets PLEASE stop the fucking Video Streaming from your phones guys.. Supper Time (6-9) is really ANNOYING some times :P

    Have a great evening !

  • Leslie WRG

    Agreed! Tons of crappy apps on the app store.

    some really amazing ones though. definitely more complimentary and intuitive and user friendly than any other platform.

    Maybe when google starts shipping chrome OS and flush out their apps more it will shift.

    I’m very over blackberry personally. They are so far behind the 8 ball, only a matter of time before apple introduces a BBM killer. For now, apps like KIK and What’s App are starting to gain traction, especially with multi-platform versions.

  • Wahida37

    I cant do it for BB why though??????

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