Yesterday, Nokia finally revealed three members of the highly anticipated X Family of Smartphones. Yes, this is the same X Smartphone that was rumored before to be running on Android. The X family is indeed running on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean but a highly customized one and without any Google services. The X family has a specially designed Nokia app store from where the users will download the apps. Definitely, it will take time to port the apps to the platform, but according to Nokia, 75 percent of all the apps are currently compatible with the Nokia X and other members of the X family of Smartphones.

While the rest of the 25 percent apps will be up and running soon and for that Nokia is encouraging the developers to submit the .apk file to the Nokia Store. There is also a dedicated SDK and other porting tools to make the incompatible apps compatible for the platform. So, you can make your app compatible with the X phone yourself or let Nokia do that for you. Nokia accepts that before the other 25 percent apps go live in the store, they need a little retouch while they also mentioned that the SDK will convert the incompatible apps to compatible ones in just a matter of a few hours.

If you are a developer and you are trying to find out if your app is compatible for the X Smartphone then you can use Nokia’s tool right here to test andport it to Nokia X. The deal looks quite simple and easy and even Nokia says it is. It seems like the Nokia is up for improving the whole Android experience for users in the emerging markets and its all happening. Nokia X will soon be hitting markets and I can bet it will be an amazing ride.

A few days ago we told you about the acquisition of WhatsApp for around $19 billion by Facebook. It was no less than a shock when the news arrived, because there was no information leaked and it all happened at once nobody seen that coming. It is said that Initially Google offered $10 Billion to buy WhatsApp, which WhatsApp turned and this is not all of it.

Facebook is on it's way to buy the world's fastest growing mobile messaging service, WhatsApp. Facebook announced this yesterday on their blog, that Facebook will be paying WhatsApp $12 Billion in shares, $4 Billion in cash and $3 Billion in Restricted Stock Units to the employees of WhatsApp four year after this deal has been finalized.

The following is an exact from the blog on Facebook's blog:

After releasing BBM for Android and iOS, BBM gained a lot of popularity, it has 20 Million subscribers after the first week just from both platforms. Everybody liked BBM and appreciated it, even the haters couldn't stop themselves for installing it on their devices.

BlackBerry had 60 millions users of BBM using BlackBerry phones. And the list topped to 80 million after just one week of the release for Android and iOS. BBM for number one app in Google Play Store in 35 countries and number one app in Apple's App Store in about 107 countries.

You can chat with people using pins numbers of BBM. BlackBerry will continue to update BBM. Future updates will include Voice chat and Video call for sure.

"It is great to see so many people downloading BBM, but the true measurement for us is engagement – the connections being made and the conversations in which our BBM community engages. The power of BBM has always been the active, real conversations and interaction that our customers enjoy. From here on out, we will focus on active users of BBM and will no longer focus on simple download numbers."-Andrew Bocking Executive Vice President, BBM

Do you BBM installed on you Android or iOS device?

It's a big embarrassment for BlackBerry that the launch of BBM for Android and iOS Failed the past week. Probably because a number of fake apps appeared on the Play Store. Few of them were using the company's name Blackberry (The real name is BlackBerry not Blackberry). And these apps were providing an old version of BBM to the Android User.

These Fake Apps created a lot of problems for the company in abnormal ways. Meanwhile 1.1 Million authentic downloads were made to the BBM for Android and iOS.Blackberry Decided to pull the app from both platforms and stop the rollout.

BBM's dude Andrew Bocking said that distributing the app is not so easy.He says that it "will take some time and I do not anticipate launching this week." you can checkout below that how BlackBerry Manages to explain their embarrassment.

Source: BlackBerry