Official Nimbuzz Blog

The Shorty Awards honor the best people and organizations on Twitter and social media. Nominations run through February 11, 2011 so we need to hurry.

We have a chance to win in the #Apps category but we need your help.

To  nominate Nimbuzz for the Shorty Awards, you need to:

1. Visit this link
2. type Nimbuzz in the blank box
3. say why do you think we should win
4. Tweet away

So your tweet should look like this: I nominate @nimbuzz for a Shorty Award in #apps because it’s the best mobile app  for free calls and messaging.

Thank you all!

International calling just became a whole lot more convenient (and cheaper). Now, you can use your PayPal account to buy NimbuzzOut credits.

NimbuzzOut is the best way to make international calls, and we say that because is:

• Cheap: with amazing low rates.
• Convenient: works on  Android, Nokia Symbian, iPhone, PC and Mac.
• Simple and offers crystal clear calls.

To try it simply select PayPal as your payment option on the Buy NimbuzOut credit page, login, accept payment, done! Now you are ready to  make super cheap calls to any mobile phone or landline in the world.

Beyond PayPal, here is a complete list of supported payment options for NimbuzzOut: (more…)

World premiere everyone: Introducing Push Notifications for Nokia smartphones via Nimbuzz Ping!

Nokia users can finally enjoy a feature that up until now was reserved exclusively to iPhone users. Nimbuzz Ping let’s you receive free text notifications when Nimbuzz friends are trying to connect with you. With Nimbuzz Ping you will appear online to your friends even if you have Nimbuzz turned off on your mobile phone.

We are launching this feature with Telkomsel in Indonesia, with more operators in India coming soon. If you would like to be notified when Nimbuzz Ping will be available with your operator sign-up here.

Our friends from GigaOm and Into Mobile stated it is a “smart move on the part of Nimbuzz“, and they “could easily see this flying“.

In addition to Push Notifications, the new update comes with a highly requested feature: Ignore Users in Chat-Rooms and a redesigned main menu.

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Being smack in the middle of next generation mobile communications we want to reveal the trends we see emerging from our global user survey with 48,000 respondents.

Based on our findings people in the West (Europe, North America), using Nimbuzz on their mobile, prefer asynchronous (text messaging) means of communication, as opposed to respondents from MENA (Syria, Libya, Saudia Arabia, Egypt), who prefer synchronous (voice calls) ways of mobile communication.

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Nimbuzz 1.9 for Java powered feature phones is available for download.

This update comes with a fix  for our Facebook solution. With the implementation of the official Facebook Connect APIs,  you can now login to your Facebook account right from inside the app, no need for any extra steps.

We also added a very special feature for our Indonesian Telkomsel users: Free text (SMS) notifications via Nimbuzz Ping.

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