Nimbuzz India

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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Happy day for all  the Android users: a new Nimbuzz version is ready to download in the Android Market.

Curious what’s new? Here are the highlights of Nimbuzz for Android 1.4:

• Swipe between chats – a new useful way to view all your open chats, just move you finger across the chat window to see the other open windows
• Auto-start option – never miss a chat, now you can choose to open Nimbuzz automatically every time you start up you mobile
• Flashing LED light – will notify you of every new chat message. Pretty useful when your mobile is in the silent mode
• Faster sign in -  this should be noticeable from the 3rd login – and it will!!
• UI optimization for Nexus One & Motorola Droid/Milestone
• 9 new languages – Chinese Simplified, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, German, French, Dutch and Spanish

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If last week we had good news for Nimbuzz Java users, when we announced our latest update optimized for Java touchscreens, this week we come back with more good news: We fixed the BlackBerry connection issue! Yey! [Download link]

Last year in December we announced our first native application for Blackberry’s . Unfortunately a few weeks after the new BB 5.0 O.S. upgrade went live and some pieces of our code didn’t worked with the new O.S., we had to go back to the “drawing board“  .

Although it took longer than expected, we did it and now all of you can enjoy running Nimbuzz on Blackberry.

And just to refresh your memory, here are the key features for the current version:

• runs in background
• connects you to all your friends
• brings home screen notification
• auto-reconnects
• “Clickable” URL’s

You can download the new Nimbuzz for Blackberry from Nimbuzz.com [Download link] or via Blackberry App World [Download link].

As always your feedback is welcome and if you find any bug or you have any suggestion for us please let us know in the comment section bellow.

We have compiled exclusively for you the most updated list of the latest popular touch phones in India, launched after the Nokia N97. The featured manufacturers are Karbonn, Samsung and HTC.

The recently launched Karbonn K560 is a stylish bar dual GSM handset with a touch screen display. The phone features FM Radio, Video recording, Video Player, 2 mega pixel camera, A2DP Bluetooth support, and GPRS/MMS/WAP. It also comes with 1000 Phonebook capacity, and expandable memory up to 8GB (micro SD). This touch phone is very attractively priced at Rs.5000.

Samsung “Corby” touch phone is a full-touch 2.8-inch QVGA screen handset. It’s a trendy mobile phone available in bold color options such as Jamaican Yellow, Cupid Pink, Minimal White, and Festival Orange. This mobile features 2MP Camera. 50MB Internal Memory, microSD which is expandable up to 8GB, and also supports Edge, GPRS which comes handy in today’s regular online world. This touch phone is sweetly priced at Rs 9600.

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Although OVI store has not been launched yet in India nationally, the Nokia N97 has it preinstalled and all you lucky Nokia N97 owners who already have Ovi Store preinstalled, your one-stop IM needs are history. It’s just a matter of a little more time before the launch of Ovi Store in India this September and then you can get your hands on your very own Nimbuzz in Ovi Store. The good news is Ovi store is ready for download for your beloved Nokia mobile phones [Ovi Download link].

In the last year many of us realized that Apple’s App Store model was a huge success and with 1 Billion applications downloaded in less than one year, few can contradict this.

The idea spread out really quickly and soon after, big names of the mobile industry went in the same direction. Nokia, Google, Sony (and a lot more to follow) created a unique space for their users to find the best applications for their mobile phones. From what we can tell each of the stores is a success: App Store, Android Market, Ovi Store and also Getjar.com where Nimbuzz was the was #1 most downloaded application in US store last month.

Soon after Nimbuzz was present in the Ovi Store, Yash Maheshwar from Oviapplications wrote a really detailed Nimbuzz review that we are really happy to share with you: Nimbuzz – The one app to IM them all!

To our Nokia N97 users in India, do let us know through your comments if you were successful in finding Nimbuzz in your Ovi Store.

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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 .

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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There is good news for all Airtel prepaid subscribers! Airtel has just launched a new mobile data plan by the name of “Zero Rental Mobile Office”.

This is a pan-India plan available in all circles of Airtel and will give unrestricted access to the internet from mobiles (and from PC when mobile is used as a modem) at just 30 Paise per 50 kb.

This plan also solves the “Socket Connection” problem experienced by many users using Airtel Live! to access Nimbuzz.

The “No monthly rental” will make this plan an absolute delight for the Pre-Paid users.

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It’s mentioned that “Once a Red Herring winner, always a Red Herring winner” and Nimbuzz is honoured to join the famed list along with Google, eBay, and Skype – again.

Red Herring named Nimbuzz as a Red Herring Europe 100 Winner, thereby singling Nimbuzz out as one of the top 100 most promising tech companies in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).

“The exceptional accomplishments of European technology start-ups and entrepreneurs are a testament to the rapid advancements being made in building the European innovation ecosystem.“  Red Herring Managing Director, Farley Duvall stated.

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