Nimbuzz India

We just crossed another milestone together with you!

Over 200,000 Twitter followers and more than 100,000 fans on Facebook – YAY!!  Thank you guys! (To see the above image in action, please check out the Nimbuzz Twitter Parade.)

200,000 followers, that’s a lot indeed.  How much?  Well think of it this way:

• If we were to create a guest book to be printed with the names of all our Twitter followers, it would be 800 pages long!
• There are 4 times as many Nimbuzz followers on Twitter as attendees at the Mobile World Congress!
• Being a Dutch company, we are proud to be the third most popular Twitter user in the Netherlands.
• The community of Nimbuzz fans on Twitter is 40 times bigger than the number of people attending the annual Google I/O conference.
• All Nimbuzz followers would fill the 3 biggest football stadiums of the 2010 Fifa World Cup (Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban).

We have been tweeting for 2 years, 10 months and 2 days by now and got an excellent score for our tweets on Twitter Grader – 100/100 :D.  Based on the follower numbers, we entered the Top 50 in Social Media and Tech, along with influential names such as @Mashable @Techcrunch @Scobleizer @Wired.

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This is pretty amazing!

In light of the situation in Saudi Arabia, with BlackBerry encrypted services being banned, people are flocking to Nimbuzz by the thousands as their primary solution for chat, IM, texting and messaging on their BlackBerry mobile phones.

As a matter of fact, out of 700,000 BlackBerry users in Saudi Arabia, 10 percent have now chosen Nimbuzz for their communications  – chat/IM/messaging — needs. As of August 6, we are seeing a user log in from Saudi Arabia every two seconds, with almost 10,000 new registrations from Saudi Arabia daily.

We are pleased that BlackBerry users in Saudi Arabia, both residents and tourists, are still able to connect to their friends and family around the world using our Nimbuzz service.  Because Nimbuzz is an open platform and uses XMPP and JINGLE technologies that comply with Saudi government regulations, users can still chat, IM, text and message on their BlackBerry legally.

Have you tried Nimbuzz for BlackBerry yet? You can get it at BlackBerry App World.

It’s been a while since our last PC update, but the wait is over. The new Nimbuzz 1.2 for PC update is here . Last time we brought you 13 new languages and phonebook integration.

This time we added the following [Download new Nimbuzz PC]:

• Chat History – remember when and what have you discussed with your friends
• Drag & drop file sharing – simpler and faster file sharing
• See if you Nimbuzz friends are using push notification

Let’s go into these features a bit after the jump.

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AlooTechie has stated that according to the latest figures released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) the number of broadband connections in the country has grown to 9 million in April 2010 from 8.75 million in March 2010 registering 2.8 per cent growth.

The total number of broadband subscribers as on March 31, 2009 was 6.22 million and in addition there were 11.09 million internet subscribers.

It’s really exciting to see this increase and know that more of us have the possibility of going online via their PC. The access to internet leads to innovation, economic growth and a better education. I really hope this number will grow even faster .

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Having a QWERTY Mobile Phone is the ‘IN’ thing at the moment in Indian Mobile Market. Almost every company is now focusing of having multiple QWERTY variants of the mobile phones. Some of the big players include Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola, and Blackberry.

But the small players are the ones who are benefiting the most. By keeping the cost of these phones low, it has actually become an affordable entity. Some of the Key players in low cost QWERTY mobile phones in India are – Micromax, Zen Mobiles, Fly Mobiles, G phone, & Spice

So we thought that we should compile a blog post for those of you who want to know the details about the Nimbuzz preinstalled low cost QWERTY mobile phones in India.

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These might not be the best news of today, but we’d like to inform you that as of July 1^st Nimbuzz for Windows Mobile phones will no longer be available for download from our website.

If you already have Nimbuzz on your mobile phone we will continue to offer support until the end of 2010, but no new features will be added, which means there won’t be any future update.

The reason for this decision was simple: due to platform limitations the application was not delivering a great mobile experience like on all the other mobile operating systems.

As you might have read in the news Microsoft is also stepping away from this platform and its limitations. At the moment they are fine tuning the windows phone 7 platform , which promises a completely new look and great jump forwards when it comes to usability.

And to answer your next question:  yes, we are looking into the possibility of supporting Windows phone 7 in the future but now we are still waiting for the first devices to surface in order to make that decision.

If you want to continue to use the most up to date Nimbuzz versions on your mobile we remind you that Nimbuzz is also available for: iPhone, Symbian, Android, Java or Blackberry or if your prefer you can use it via PC, Mac or Web.

Thanks for your understanding!

We have good news for you all. We have one more addition to the Nimbuzz pre-installed mobiles with Spice Mobiles’ new touch phone S-7000. So now all the Spice Mobile users can enjoy the Nimbuzz multi-community mobile messaging experience and connect with  contacts across various IM’s and social networking sites like Gtalk, Yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook, Orkut, Skype, etc. with a simple click!

To fully enjoy Nimbuzz on your S-7000 just make sure that the access point is set as GPRS and to start chatting just click on the Nimbuzz icon and connect with your existent account or create a new one

S-7000 Features:

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The Good news keeps rolling for India!! We have a hot new Symbian and Java Nimbuzz update ready for download

We had received a lot of queries from all of you regarding issues related to Nimbuzz Connectivity from your mobile phones like, ‘unable to connect Nimbuzz’, ‘trying to connect’, ‘Login Failed’ and more.

Symbian phones such as the recently launched Nokia C6, C3, and E5 will definitely benefit from this update. Even the owners of the popular Java phones like Micromax Q3, Samsung Star and many more will now be really happy with this update

We are very glad to inform you all that the HTTP connectivity is back in the new Nimbuzz version. So now we have added the support for WAP access points and other limited access points

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Nokia announced 3 very attractive phones in first week of April 2010 – Nokia C6 (Touch screen & slide-out keyboard with navigation key), Nokia C3 (QWERTY) and Nokia E5 (QWERTY)

Handset giants, Nokia have understood what you want from your phone and how it should be priced in India and hence they have come up with these 3 practical and social mobile phones.

All the three new handsets focus on getting socially active at an affordable price. C6, C3 and E5 are each equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard gives you a faster chatting experience.

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Bright Telecom India has launched G-588, the latest offering under their ‘G-Fone’ brand and the best thing about it is that G-588 comes with Nimbuzz pre-installed so you can chat for free with your friends.

Launched for the more messaging oriented people, G-588 is extremely stylish with a Qwerty Keypad and dual SIM. The dual SIM feature in G-588 is unique as it allows either of  GSM+GSM or GSM+CDMA modes to be used on the same handset (depending on the SIMs inserted).

To start using Nimbuzz on your G-588 all you need to do is make sure that you have the right GPRS plan with socket connection, then click on the Nimbuzz icon, enter your username and password or create a new account and you are ready to Rock n Roll.

The key features of G-FONE 588 include:

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