Official Nimbuzz Blog

It’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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We’re delighted to say that Nimbuzz continues to be nominated for (and win!) lots of industry awards – but we need you to help us win some more!

Please vote for Nimbuzz as Best Mobile Application at the Mashable Open Web Awards !! Only 2 days left!!

We’d greatly appreciate your help and support. All you need to do is sign in to your Twitter or Facebook, mention www.nimbuzz.com, and select “Best Mobile Application” from the drop down menu. That’s it.

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NimbuzzOut lets you make incredibly cheap international calls from your mobile, to landlines and mobiles anywhere in the world.

The latest Nimbuzz for iPhone update brings not just NimbuzzOut, but some other really cool features too.

Here’s the complete breakdown of the new features:

• New chat layout – your chat messages appear in speech balloons now
• Video sharing – send a video to your friends using the iPhone 3GS
• Japanese and Korean languages – now supported
• NimbuzzOut – Cheap calls to anywhere in the world

Today we would like to demonstrate how easy it is to use NimbuzzOut on the iPhone or iPod Touch:

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Great news everybody! We have just released into the wild our latest, most sophisticated update for Android that is the first to offer free MMS to Android users!! [Download link]

Starting from today you can send for free photos, videos, voice messages and music directly to all your online friends! Even better, all your received files will be stored online and you can access them whenever you sign in via your mobile or PC/Mac?

While this is a great feature, it’s not the only one.

Here is the complete list of the other great new features for the Nimbuzz for Android:

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Yesterday we launched our brand new product NimbuzzOut!

Today we would like to demonstrate the Rate Calculator – it’s a really handy tool that helps you work out the NimbuzzOut calling rates for each country.

All you have to do is:

• visit the NimbuzzOut Rate Calculator
• select the country you’re calling from
• select the country you’re calling to

And that’s it!!

The prices will be displayed automatically for both mobile phones and landlines and you can choose to see the rates in 2 denominations – Euros or US dollars.

NimbuzzOut is currently available for Symbian, iPhone and iPod Touch handsets, but we will be rolling it out to other handsets later this year.

To find out more about NimbuzzOut check out yesterday’s post: Say hello to cheap international calls with NimbuzzOut!

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Today is a very exciting day at Nimbuzz HQ – we are delighted to announce the launch of our brand new product, NimbuzzOut!

NimbuzzOut lets you make incredibly cheap international calls from your mobile, to landlines and mobiles anywhere in the world.

It’s the first pay-as-you-go product that we’ve ever offered, and it will transform your mobile into the cheapest way to make international calls – who would have thunk it?!

From today, you can purchase NimbuzzOut credits direct from www.nimbuzzout.com or your Nimbuzz mobile app and save up to 95% on the cost of a traditional international mobile call!

NimbuzzOut is currently available for Symbian, iPhone and iPod Touch handsets, but we will be rolling it out to other handsets later this year.

Here’s how to use it:

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Hey Nimbuzz users, just wanted to to let you know that due to some technical issues we have temporarily stopped the connectivity to Facebook via Nimbuzz.

Rest assured that we are working hard to fix the problem and we’ll announce the return of the Facebook functionality as soon as it’s available!

Sorry for the inconvenience – we also want to chat with our Facebook friends on Nimbuzz !

Please leave a comment if you have any urgent questions!

If you’re in the Bay area of the US, join Nimbuzz for Buzz Worthy – an evening of fun with like minded people from the mobile space and our friends from Attack! Marketing!

We are proud to have GoMo News as sponsor of Buzz Worthy, where you’ll get to meet Nimbuzz face-to-face, get exclusive access to Nimbuzz betas and enjoy free drinks! You will also meet loads of people from the mobile blogging scene from San Francisco, the influencers from Attack! Marketing, the guys from GoMo News, and the developers from the App Store Showcase.

Make sure to RSVP on the event Facebook page so you can get those free goodies! We have 47 confirmed guest so far !

You can meet our man Stateside, Tobias Kemper, next Tuesday 10th November at Thirsty Bear, in San Francisco’s SOMA district, from 6:30pm until 9pm.

Find out more details on the Nimbuzz US blog!

Friday was a big day for Apple. Finally the iPhone made its official debut on the BIG Chinese market (1.3 billion people).

The Apple store wasn’t overcrowded and the event didn’t quite had the impact we are used to. However, with 1hour before the official launch reporters in Beijing counted nearly 300 customers queued up to buy it, according to ChinaNews.com .

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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!

From the poll results we can see that most of you are using Nimbuzz because you love to chat a lot (20%), you  like to share with your friends what you are doing on the go (17%) and also be up to date with what your friends are doing(16%).

From one point of view, Nimbuzz meets the same need as Twitter by letting you share with your friends  “what are you doing? ” .  The difference is that on Nimbuzz with a few clicks you can start to chat with your buddies, call them or retrieve their location, all from one easy to use and understand contact list.

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