Over the years there have been a few solutions for chatting on BBM from your desktop over USB or Bluetooth. Now Fixmo has blown those all away with Fixmo Messenger. You simply install the beta app on your BlackBerry after which you create an account and then head on over to their website and enter in your login information. You can then chat away from their website.
NOTE: Please keep in mind this means you are sharing your BBM chats with Fixmo which may concern users.
Instructions from the Public Beta announcement on CB Forums:
- Download the mobile App to your device at this link
- Open the mobile App and create a new account with your email address and a password more than 8 characters, this is needed to log in to your BBM
- Click on Connect
- Now go to Fixmo Web Messenger and enter your login information there.
Click on Connect on the web interface and you should be ready to use BlackBerry Messenger from your desktop.
Thanks Paul for sending this one in!
Eric ( View Profile) - Posts: 278
Posted: May 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM EST
Looks like I don’t have to learn Bluetooth API’s now…
Nikolaus Walch ( View Profile) - Posts: 602
Posted: May 10, 2011 at 1:44 PM EST
I agree sharing all my BBM contacts and chats to another service worries me a bit. Doesn’t that shoot the argument about how secure BBM is?
BB Addict ( View Profile) - Posts: 1218
Posted: May 10, 2011 at 1:57 PM EST
agreed