Wikitude Expands Support For Blackberry Smartphones

As part of BlackBerry Dev Con Asia taking place in Singapore this year

, Wikitude (http://www.wikitude.com) has announced additional support for smartphones running on the BlackBerry 6 operating system (OS). With Wikitude being preinstalled on all new smartphones running the BlackBerry 7 OS, bringing Wikitude to smartphones running BlackBerry 6 will help answer considerable demand expressed by users who want to experience Wikitudes extensive content offering including more than 2,000 content Worlds consisting of approx. 150 million places around the globe. Users of the popular BlackBerry Bold 9700, 9780,9788 and BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphones can download Wikitude on BlackBerry App World starting today.

Although smartphones running BlackBerry OS 6 do not support the Augmented Reality view, which requires specific hardware features available in BlackBerry 7 based smartphones, the Wikitude app does fully integrate with BBM enabling users to find their BBM friends on a map and to communicate with one another based on their location. Users opting to allow their whereabouts to be displayed can even make new friends.

After being crowned The Most Addictive Social App Using the BBM Social Platform at BlackBerry DevCon Americas in October, Wikitude most recently won the BlackBerry EMEA Innovation Award for Best BBM Connected App, awarded in Alicante 1st December. Extending the Wikitude platform to millions of BlackBerry 6 smartphone users will make the BBM experience richer than ever before. We are extremely happy to finally bring this version of Wikitude to even more BlackBerry smartphone users, says Martin Herdina, Wikitudes CEO.

Alec Saunders, VP Developer Relations, Research In Motion, said: "Were delighted that Wikitude has integrated BBM support within their app. Integration with BBM can allow much greater viral discovery for apps, as well as enrich and transform the user experience with important social elements.

About Wikitude

Wikitude GmbH are the creators of the worlds first mobile augmented reality (AR) platform and the company behind the internationally renowned Wikitude World Browser for iOS, Android, Symbian, and BlackBerry devices. The browser has been voted Best Augmented Reality Browser by the readers of Augmented Planet for both 2009 and 2010. Wikitude is leading the international AR technology standardization as part of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OCG). More information on Wikitude here: www.wikitude.com

Wikitude is available on BlackBerry App World here: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/50381

Wikitude Social Media Channels:

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wikitude

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wikitude

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/wikitude

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/wikitude

Google+: http://googleplus.wikitude.com

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.

Editorial enquiries:

Veronica Laraway

E-Mail: veronica.laraway@wikitude.com

Phone: +43 662 24 33 10

by: blehner

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