Official Nimbuzz Blog

It is our pleasure to present this month’s Ambassador Spotlight! We have chosen 2 of our Nimbuzz Ambassadors to highlight to the rest of the global Nimbuzz community: Please welcome Marc, from The Netherlands, and Sajin, from India!

Marc shares his passion for sports, computer gadgets and music videos through his YouTube Channel in his Dutch-language personal website.

Through Sajin’s variety of gadget tutorials you’ll learn so much in a fun way, about the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, MP3 players and more – from his YouTube Channel, his personal website, and Twitter.

We asked Nimbuzz Ambassadors Marc and Sajin to share their favorite Nimbuzz moment. Here is what they had to say:

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Today we are celebrating the fact that Nimbuzz has reached the 10 million downloads milestone from the GetJar app store, a fantastic achievement! GetJar is the world’s largest independent app store averaging over 35 million downloads a month. Nimbuzz downloaders for Java, Symbian and/or Windows Mobile phones have also given us a GetJar User Rating of 8.25 out of 10!

Since App stores are becoming second nature to those looking to personalize their handsets, we have been working with GetJar to ensure that our award-winning application design is seen amongst GetJar’s 20,000 different apps.  Some of the high-profile applications companies Getjar works with include Google Maps, Yahoo Go and Opera Mini.

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TATA Indicom, a leading CDMA based mobile operator and one of India’s most respected corporate brand names, has just agreed to promote Nimbuzz through its very popular TATA Zone (mtata.nimbuzz.com) to all 35 million subscribers.

This move is a huge step by TATA also that is planning to launch a GSM network this year adding to their share of 9.3% of the total Indian mobile subscriber base.

Vikas, our Country Head for India, exclaimed, “We are registering over 600,000 users per month and this has been a terrific start for us in India which is a top market now! Since TATA Indicom is a name to reckon with and it is our pleasure to be associated with a brand like Tata.”

Warm welcome all TATA subscribers! Happy mobile social networking!

Tata Teleservices Limited is one of India’s leading private telecom service providers, which extends its pan-India presence over 320,000 towns and villages across all of India’s 22 telecom circles.

Results are in from our blog poll (see question and results above). Thank you for your time and for your votes!

37% of you, the Nimbuzz users,  always retrieve the location of their Nimbuzz buddies on their mobile.

25% of you only sometimes want to know where your friends are.

We are really happy to see that most of the people know about the location sharing feature and use it. Remember, it is really useful to arrange face-to-face meetings on the fly.

For people that didn’t know, it is available for Symbian and Java mobile phones and very soon for the Window mobile phones.

Here are the steps you need to follow to retrieve the location of your Nimbuzz buddies: (more…)

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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We are proud that the 13^th Annual Webby Awards, the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, has nominated Nimbuzz as the Best Mobile Application!

Vote for us! To prevent the possibility of robot votes, Webby’s needs you to create a free account here and go to the voting page. Nimbuzz is listed in the Mobile Applications section and it will take only one click to cast your vote – no commitments needed.

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In case you have not yet upgraded to the latest Nimbuzz PC version you can do that now!

Since yesterday, all the users that had installed on their PC an older version than Nimbuzz 0.90.5 received a pop-up message inviting them to upgrade.

We have previously announced the New Nimbuzz PC back in January.

We would like to welcome everybody that just upgraded and we hope you enjoy the new looks and functionality!

Feedback is always welcome!

UPDATE: Nimbuzz for the Mac! Send an email to ambassadors@nimbuzz.com to be the first to test!

Results are in from the Nimbuzz Blog poll (see question and results above). Thank you for your time and for your votes!

The communities that you would most like to call are: Windows Live (27%), Yahoo! (25%) and Facebook (19%)!

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[Update]

If you are looking for cheap international calling from you mobile and you end up here , I would like to introduce you also to NimbuzzOut. NimbuzzOut lets you make incredibly cheap international calls from your mobile, to landlines and mobiles anywhere in the world. To see how cheap it is and how much you can save take a look at the NimbuzzOut  Rate Calculator .

Up until now, the Nimbuzz for Symbian‘s Menu button layout was the central connection point for any buddy, feature or setting.

2.0 has a brand new interface and features. Download it now!

You’ll notice the new design with Tabs. Quickly switch between your favorite features by browsing through the 4 tabs: Nimbuzz (buddy-list), Chats, Phone Calls, and Messaging.

But there is more! We have a huge list of updates for you this time:

• Sort your buddy-list by favorites. People you communicate with most, appear at the top of your buddy-list.
• Choose your favorite ringtones for new chats, messages, and calls.
• Directly make NimbuzzOut calls from the Phone Calls tab; always see what your current NimbuzzOut credit and username are.
• Pressing the red “hang-up” button now hides Nimbuzz instead of exiting.

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