
In the “Nimbuzz EmotiContest” you get to design up to 5 emoticons for Nimbuzz: Design the emoticon(s), send it to us and we will pick a winner whose emoticon(s) will be available on all Nimbuzz clients!
Everyone is invited to participate, so if you are a freelancer, passionate graphic designer, playing all day with Adobe Photoshop or have a friend (or 3 year old sibling) that can create the BEST new emoticon - please share this post!
Checkout all the details about the contest guidelines, dates, and details - below. This is also a chance to add a design creation to your artistic portfolio, in a live product! With well over 900,000 new people joining Nimbuzz each month, this is your claim to fame to be part of a mobile success story!
If you have any questions please let us know in the comment section.
Help us spread the word around and tell your friends!
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The good news just keeps flowing in friends!! Nimbuzz is pre-installed on Micromax’s new mobile chatting phone “ezpad Q3”! This means that there will be no download necessary by Micromax© eZpad owners to enjoy the Nimbuzz multi-community mobile messaging experience!
The slick ezpad Q3 with the QWERTY keyboard device-style adds to Micromax’s list of creative, attractive handsets. The spirit of mobile chatting in this device, aside from the simplified-typing interface, is the Nimbuzz mobile social messenger for the hyper-connected; with support for all popular Instant Messaging services (GTalk (Orkut), Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, etc.) and Social Networks (Orkut, Facebook, MySpace, etc.).
A warm welcome to Micromax ezpad Q3 users to the Nimbuzz community!!!
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We are proud to announce that O2 is launching the highly anticipated Toshiba TG01 handset with Nimbuzz preinstalled, right now, across all O2 channels in Germany!
Toshiba’s TG01 was first unveiled earlier in the year and ever since everybody is looking forward to get their hands on the hottest 4.1 inch screen mobile out there.
It is a great achievement for Nimbuzz to be the social messaging partner of choice for Toshiba and O2. We worked closely together with Toshiba and O2 to deliver the lifestyle communications features on the Toshiba TG01 for contacting all of your friends across multiple networks from one place. This collaboration is about enhancing the “hyper-connected” lifestyle of mobile users today.
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We are happy to be nominated for the Techcrunch Europe Awards in the Best Mobile Startup category.
You can help us win! Vote for Nimbuzz here! Just scroll down and click where it says Nimbuzz on the list & the VOTE button :D.
The TechCrunch Europe Awards will honor the best tech companies and startups across the web and mobile scene from across the continent of Europe. The winners will be announced on July 9 at the Europe-wide tech awards ceremony in London. You can get tickets here.
Voting will end on July 2 next week! Every vote counts, and we are counting on you
Thanks for your time and support!
The Nimbuzz Team

Want to stay connected anytime, anywhere??!! Aircel launches Pocket internet that offers just that!
Aircel has thought of providing its customers the ease and assurance of connecting to internet through the mobile.
Aircel have been promoting Mobile Internet with Music or Ring back tones, cheap calling rates and usage of internet on the go.
We decided to give you a better insight into Aircel Pocket internet. It comes with unlimited browsing in two packages. Rupee 14/- for a 3 day package and Rupee 98/- for a 30 day package. These are available for all the existing and prospective Aircel Customers. To avail this offer one has to just get the Aircel Pocket internet Vouchers.
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Good news for Windows Mobile users: we just launched an update of Nimbuzz! [Download Nimbuzz]
Here are the new features:
- Location sharing - share your location with your Nimbuzz buddies.
- SkypeOut - make calls to mobile phones and landlines using SkypeOut credits.
- SIP calling - make calls to mobile phones and landlines using one of our SIP partners.
- Dial-pad - dial any phone number quickly and easily.
- Improved UI:
- Active chats are now directly accessible from the top of the buddy list.
- Buddy profiles
- Switch between Group views from the buddy list
Thanks for all the feedback you sent on Twitter, the blog or to our support team; we also fixed bugs you reported.
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As you might know, yesterday Nokia released one of the hottest new mobile phones out there: the Nokia N97.
We just thought this is a good opportunity to remind you that Nimbuzz already works beautifully on it, and you can [Download Nimbuzz for Nokia N97].
For those proud owners on a Nokia N97 or those of you thinking of buying one, here are a few reasons why you should definitely install Nimbuzz on it:
- Landscape chat – so you can make use of the built in Keyboard
- Shortcut buttons - so you can easily update your profile, status, or personal message.
- Personal messages - fully displayed in the contact list for all communities.
- Chat -14 different instant messaging and social networks supported (including Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, Google Talk).
- Call - buddies from Nimbuzz, Skype, Yahoo, or Gtalk using your mobile data plan or Wi-Fi connection.
- Cheap phone calls via SkypeOut or one of our SIP partners.
Watch the Nimbuzz on the N97 YouTube video to see it in action!
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Send us an email now and get exclusive early-access to all Nimbuzz beta releases. Join Nimbuzz Ambassadors!
We often receive questions on our blog, on twitter and via our support asking when the next release will be available and what features it will have. Well, for all of you who want to have a sneak peak at the latest Nimbuzz versions - Join the Nimbuzz Ambassadors.
This means that you will:
- be the first to know about the next release
- get early access to all Nimbuzz beta versions before they are officially released
- add your personal touch to the Nimbuzz versions by sending us valuable feedback
- get a chance to be mentioned on the official Nimbuzz blog and let the world know who you are
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The results of the first Nimbuzz India Blog polls are out!!!
69% of Nimbuzz users stayed connected with GoogleTalk when online with Nimbuzz, which also includes the people you are connected to on Orkut.
Looking at the results we can see that GoogleTalk leaps ahead of Yahoo at 23%, and Facebook at 9%. GoogleTalk’s numbers are also boosted by the dynamic Orkut on Nimbuzz community in India who use Gtalk as their chatting engine on Nimbuzz.
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Take the Nimbuzz survey and WIN a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic touch-screen phone!
9 months have passed since the last Nimbuzz survey and lots has changed. With this survey we would like to find out more about you, the hyper-connected and super social Nimbuzz users out there. What impact did Nimbuzz have in your life?
As an incentive for spending 5 minutes to complete the survey we are giving away 3 brand new Nokia 5800s at random to 3 lucky winners. The lucky winners will be contacted in the week of June 15th and will get a mention on our blog as well!
This survey will end on June 15, 2009 so hurry before it is too late. Thanks in advance for all your help, and Good Luck!