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This week on Version History, The Verge's new chat show about old technology, I need you to go back in your minds to a time when text messages cost 10 cents each.

And remember how big a deal it was when BlackBerry came out with a way to message all of your friends in real time for free.

I refer, of course, to BBM.

Maybe the greatest messaging app of all time.

Okay, probably not the greatest messaging app, but a very important messaging app nonetheless.

On this episode, we talk about where it came from, where it went, and why without BBM, the world might look really different.

All that on Version History on YouTube and wherever you get podcasts.

Oh, wow.

Google has been making gadgets for a really long time, but there's something different that happened with this year.

They're actually all pretty good for a change.

This week on The Verge Cast, we talk about what it means that Google now makes a bunch of phones, some headphones, a smartwatch, and even a tablet that are all pretty good.

And we ask an important and impossible question.

Which one's the best one?

All that, plus whether the smart home is ever actually going to work on The Verge Cast, wherever you get podcasts.