Blackberries one saving grace is BBM. It is the one technology that has endured and kept BBM afloat. Some former Blackberry users have longed for the day they could use the familiar BBM on their iPhone and Android and now that day is almost upon us. 

BBM for Android will be released in the Google  Play store on September 21st (early morning) and on the iPhone on September 22nd (just passed midnight)

The Android version is expected to be compatible with compatible with Ice cream sandwich and above  . It is important to state that many of the advanced features (Video calling, BBM Voice, BBM Channels, etc) will not be included in the first version.