Official Nimbuzz Blog

Last night at the BlackBerry EMEA Alliance Summit 2009 in Rome, our colleague Rutger Coolen (pictured in the middle ) was honored to collect the Connect On BlackBerry award on behalf of everyone at Nimbuzz.

It’s a great honor for Nimbuzz to be recognized as the most innovative application in the Connect On BlackBerry category by such an experienced jury and Research In Motion (RIM), one of the world’s leading creators of innovative wireless solutions.

Here’s what Tyler Lessard, Vice President of Global Alliances at RIM, had to say:

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If you’re running an old version of Nimbuzz, now is the time for your free upgrade!

Over the last few months we’ve updated all of our clients, enhancing security and adding lots of great new features.  Here are just a few of the things you can expect to find on the different mobile platforms once you upgrade…

Symbian

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Last year on 26 November we were proud to present to you free calls, chat, messaging and more … on the iPhone! Today Nimbuzz for iPhone is one year old   !

Since we have launched the iPhone and iPod Touch application  we have upgraded many times and added 10 more languages, VoIP deluxe, improved the UI and added avatars, launched the Apple suite, added push notifications and introduced NimbuzzOut !!

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AdMob,one of the biggest players in the mobile advertising industry (recently acquired by Google ), has just released its monthly report and there are some really interesting numbers in there!

Here are the main points:

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NimbuzzOut will be undergoing essential technical maintenance tonight for 1 hour between 12:00am and 01:00am (GMT).

This means that during this period you will not be able to:

• Call phonenumbers via NimbuzzOut
• Buy NimbuzzOut credits
• Retrieve your account balance

Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding!

I’s Friday! Which means a quick trip around the world to check out the best from the Nimbuzz local blogs this week:

See the titles after the JUMP

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Do you want a chance to write for Nimbuzz?  Become our Spanish blogger and be a part of the Nimbuzz team!

Nimbuzz is looking for someone to be our Spanish blogger! If you love Nimbuzz, then this is your opportunity to be right at the heart of everything that’s happening.

As our blogger, you will be responsible for researching and writing at least 3 blog posts each week plus a fortnightly poll. We will also need you to contact Spanish bloggers when we have major news about Nimbuzz, as well as doing some translation work for these events.

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While most of the mobile brands are fighting for supremacy in the US and Europe, Dell chose a different strategy for its first Smartphone.

The brand new Dell Mini 3i running on Android will be released first in China and then Brazil. Enthusiasts will be able to buy it from China Mobile (in China without 3G) and from Claro (in Brazil).

The guys over at Android Central are saying that the new mobile “looks like a cross between an iPhone and a Palm Pre with touches of the myTouch 3G.” Looking at the picture above I would definitely add Nokia 5800 to this list .

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

We are happy to see that most of you, 41% to be exact, are using get.nimbuzz.com to download Nimbuzz on the mobile. This shows that our efforts to market our site are paying off ! 25% of you downloaded Nimbuzz mobile via PC and afterwards installed it on the mobile. This indicates that the computer is still a very important tool for our online experience .

It’s also good to see that you are using Mobile application stores, like Getjar(8%) , iTunes(8%) or Android Market(4%) to find out about the best applications for your mobile phone.

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In the past few days we have talked about NimbuzzOut, NimbuzzOut Rates, NimbuzzOut on iPhone and now we would like to share with you a few tips about the My Account section.

After logging into your Nimbuzz account from the NimbuzzOut page, you will be able to:

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