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Meet the BlackBerry Community App

COMMUNITY / 01.30.14 / Mark Sohm

Are you looking for a convenient way to access the 4 BlackBerry blogs, BlackBerry Support Forums and official BlackBerry BBM Channels on your BlackBerry 10 Smartphone*? Then look no further, the BlackBerry Community App is here!

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The BlackBerry Community App lets you easy scan for the latest BlackBerry news on the Inside BlackBerry Blog, Help Blog, Developers Blog and Business Blog. Use it to read and share your favourite blog posts.

It also gives you easy access to the BlackBerry Community Support Forums, including the General Forums, Business Forums and Developer Forums. You can read and search for posts in any board. Swipe down from the top of the app to enter the Settings to configure your forum account, which will be safely stored for easy access when you return. Now you can create, reply to and like posts. Track threads you are participating in using the My Posts feature. You can also view a listing of the most recent threads across all 3 boards. Like any great BlackBerry app, sharing is also integrated. Share forum posts right from the app using BBM, email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many more apps.

Switch to the BBM Channels tab where you can open or subscribe to the BlackBerry, BlackBerry Jam, BlackBerry Beta Zone and BlackBerry Careers BBM Channels.

Go give it a try for yourself, the BlackBerry Community app is free to download in the BlackBerry World storefront.

*The BlackBerry Community App requires BlackBerry OS 10.2 or higher.

Mark Sohm

About Mark Sohm

Senior Technical Solutions Manager on the Solution Architects team.

Mark Sohm joined BlackBerry in 2003 and currently works as a Senior Technical Solutions Manager on the Solutions Architects team. Mark Sohm has been helping developers create applications using BlackBerry technologies for over 15 years, starting way back with the very first BlackBerry JDK on BlackBerry OS 3.6 through to BlackBerry 10 and now Android with BlackBerry Dynamics and Android Enterprise.