Official Nimbuzz Blog

The new Nimbuzz is “Free calls and messaging” with awesome new features for your iPhone and iPod touch that improve the chatting and calling experience! The update is available now to download from iTunes.

Let’s take a look at what’s new.

Chat screen options with:

✓ Chat Wallpaper – Use a photo from your album or take a picture to set as background.
✓ Shared Files Preview – Displays a thumbnail inside the chat screen.
✓ Real-Time Location Sharing – inside the chat screen to meet face-to-face by sending or requesting the location of you and your Nimbuzz friends.

Invisible Status – appear offline, but still chat and share files.

Recent Activity Tab – See call activity and play your voicemails, all in one tab.

Friend Suggestions – Connect with friends in your phone book already on Nimbuzz to call and message for free.

Featured Apps – Download new apps from the Recommended Apps section.

Nimbuzz Profile – Manage your Nimbuzz profile and change your contact information.

Let’s get a bit more into detail:

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Not everyone owns a smartphone.

As a matter of fact, there are 4 billion “feature phones” in use today. But not every feature phone allows you to stay connected to your friends the same way smartphones do.

That’s why we launched Nimbuzz Ping!

Nimbuzz Ping let’s you receive free text notifications when Nimbuzz friends are trying to connect with you. You will appear online to your friends even if you have Nimbuzz turned off on your mobile phone.

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Because I’m already carrying a phone with a camera all the time, I want it to be an awesome camera. This way there is no need to carry around another device.

Of course, no camera phone can ever replace my DSLR ,  but the promise of 16 Mega Pixels sure sounds pretty awesome.

A few days ago, Renesas Technology revealed a new type of camera module that could lead to smartphones packing 16MP cameras and a image resolution of 1920 × 1080.  The phones equipped with the new module will also get high-speed continuous shooting at 15 frames per second at 13 megapixels .

Other than the S006 from Sony-Ericsson, I don’t know any other phone to have such a powerful camera. This means that there is still room for competition, so maybe we will see a new wave of a new wave of 16 MP camera phones coming soon .

But what will this mean for mobile data? Could these new phones speed up the adoption of 4G mobile internet or LTE? With each picture being the size of 3 normal ones, if you want to share it online you need a fast internet connection and an unlimited data plan, otherwise you can wait forever…

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One of the questions that 48.000 respondents answered in our 2010 global Nimbuzz survey was: How do you find out about new apps?

The results revealed different regional trends in app discovery.

Unlike Western countries and APAC (Asia-Pacific) where users find about new apps via App Stores, in countries from MENA (Middle East and North Africa) 49.6% go to their friends and family for app recommendations.

Word of mouth therefore is crucial in the Middle East and North Africa, so pays off to have a lot of happy users that will recommend your app to everybody. Luckily 98% of survey respondents recommend Nimbuzz to their friends  !

In Western countries like France, UK, and USA a staggering 60% of all respondents look for new apps in the phone’s app store before searching anywhere else. We have observed a similar trend in the APAC regions and countries like India and Indonesia, where 47.50% of all the respondents also consider the app store is the best way to find about new applications.

Based on our survey results and experience, following are some tips on:  How to become #1 app in the Middle East region?

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Our Nimbuzz fans from Indonesia are super cool!

For them Nimbuzz is THE communications app to have and they use it to meet new friends and build communities. Here our values of connecting, sharing and meeting are greatly appreciated.

To give you an example, we would like to present the Nimbuzz meetups in Indonesia that were born from pure passion.

A while ago our local voice in Indonesia, Meth, went to a Nimbuzz Meet and Greet, an event that more than 200 Nimbuzz users joined!

Yes, more than 200 Nimbuzz users from the Jawa Timur region came together to meet the faces behind the nicknames from the Nimbuzz chat-rooms in person. Everybody had their own custom made t-shirt with the name of the region or chat-room and the logo of their community . Awesome!

So are you wondering what people do at a Nimbuzz Meet and Greet event? Here it is:

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We have a neat little present for our BlackBerry users:  the brand new Nimbuzz 1.3.4 update is ready to download.

What are the new features you may ask? Well… this update gets you:

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Get ready to consume up to 70% less data with the new Nimbuzz 3.0.1 for Nokia Symbian phones.

With the new update we have enabled a new way to compress the data packages using zlib encoding. We expect that on average you will consume 50% less data, and depending on how you use Nimbuzz, this could get save you an amazing 70% in data used.

Also your login speed will be faster .

Besides these amazing news we also have three additional features you should definitely check out:

1. Invisible mode – so you can appear invisible to your Nimbuzz contacts.
2. Allow chats only from friends – so you won’t be bothered by people that are not on your list.
3. Updated status icons – for Online, Away, Busy and Offline modes.

And here is how to activate the new options:

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Here’s a quick trivia for you: did you notice that the Google Android versions are sorted alphabetically (well, besides the first two).

History of Android OS names:

• Android 1.0 – Released 23 September 2008
• Android 1.1 – Released 9 February 2009
• Cupcake  1.5 – Released 30 April 2009
• Donut  1.6- Released 15 September 2009
• Éclair 2.0/2.1 – Released 26 October 2009
• Froyo  - Released 20 May 2010
• Gingerbread – Released 6 December 2010
• Honeycomb – Probably  will be released March 2011
• Ice Cream – Scheduled for the Summer of 2011
• J???? – What do you think it’s going to be next?

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Hello guys and girls! We are back and we hope that you had a great start in 2011 !

We are ambitious this year and as our first challenge we want to win the the 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards on About.com. For that we would need your help.

All you have to do is click here , fill in your name and email address and write Nimbuzz wherever you think we deserve to be nominated! Best IM client overall would be a great place to start .

Nominations will be accepted from Jan. 13 to Feb. 4 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

Winners will be announced March 15.