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Ever have to frantically ask a nearby friend to call your phone so you can find it, before it stops ringing? Although you find your phone, you leave an impression that you do this to all incoming phone calls…

The “Buzz” is a short call alert sent to a phone, when Nimbuzz is not running; Used to alert an offline buddy. Instead of using costly mobile minutes to get in touch with your friend, sending a Buzz alert is free and auto-starts Nimbuzz! (depending on your handset)

BUZZee: To benefit from the “Buzz”, the feature must be activated via Nimbuzz Mobile: Menu/Options > Settings > Nimbuzz > The Buzz; then choose to Activate; or PC Client: File > Nimbuzz Account Settings > Allow others to Buzz me.

A received Buzz alert looks like a missed called from Nimbuzz Buzz, or +313131.

BUZZer: To “Buzz” a contact on your Nimbuzz buddy list, just select the offline NimbuzzID and press BUZZ.

Now, in the situation mentioned above, you can casually go to the nearest internet-enabled device, buzz yourself, locate your own phone, unfrazzled. We’ll keep it as our little secret.

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Location, Location, Location! The success of the location feature in Nimbuzz for S60 motivated us to expand to more phones. With Nimbuzz on your Blackberry or Java phone, you can now retrieve the location of your buddies.

A map will show the location of your buddies that enabled this feature on their Symbian client. In Symbian, you can do this at: Options > Settings > Application Settings > Location Sharing

Give it a try! You can always check the location of “Jimmy the chatbot” for a quick demo.

We have added support for Java touch-screen phones, which means that you can now use Nimbuzz on your LG Viewty or Prada, Motorola/ROKR-E6, Samsung SGH-F700 and others. Can you feel it?

• Call, chat and text with your friends on Yahoo, MSN, Skype, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk and others
• Retrieve the location of your buddies
• Send Files and photos
• Meet new friends in our chatrooms