Official Nimbuzz Blog

Because our previous post on best apps for Nokia E72 was really popular we decided to create an entire series to help you discover the best apps for your Nokia mobile.

Every week we will present you some of the best Nokia apps available for Symbian S60, and since there are quite a few, we will split the list into 10 categories.

Being chosen as one of the Best Nokia Apps by Ovi users and crowned Best Symbian App at the Getties Awards, Nimbuzz is without a doubt a must have for every Nokia phone… but what other cool apps are out there?

Today we will start with the best utilities apps for Symbian S60 (useful for Nokia N8, Nokia 5320, Nokia 5800, Nokia 5230 and many more).

Best Nokia Apps

• Best Screen Snap – is a free app that allows you to capture screenshots on your Nokia smartphone and save them to a file or send them to friends or to your desktop computer. I use this app whenever I find an issue, to take a screenshot and share with the team , saves me a lot of time when I need to explain what exactly happened.

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There’s a brand new Nimbuzz version available for you to download!

Nimbuzz Ad-Free for Nokia Symbian mobile phones is exclusively available on Nokia’s Ovi Store and comes in 17 languages .

The price of the Ad-Free version is 3 Euros/$3 and compared to the free version you will get early access to cool new Nimbuzz features like: (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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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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I know you all have been waiting for this . Well, it’s finally here: the new Nimbuzz 3.0 for Nokia Symbian and Symbian^3 devices is ready to download.

The new version was specially optimized for Nokia’s N8, E7, C6 and C7 which run on Symbian^3.

Here are the useful new features you will enjoy in this version:

• Customizable tabs: select which tabs you want to see and in what order.
• NimbuzzOut call rates are displayed in real time below the number before placing the call.
• Recent calls tab: see all your received, missed and outgoing calls.
• 2 new chat styles: with avatars and without.
• 3 options to view the Contact List.
• Sort contacts by status.
• My info tab: gives you quick access to your profile, NimbuzzOut credits, accounts,  suggested friends and friend invites.
• Facebook Connect: removes the 400 contacts limit and connectivity issues.

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Last week we discussed the advantages of Touchscreen vs QWERTY vs T9 and which would be the best choice. As @cycnus very well observed in the comments,  there’s a new concept from Nokia that should be included in our discussion, the Nokia x3 touchscreen and T9 combo.

I already had the chance to test the new Nokia X3 and I liked it.

It felt natural to switch between the keypad and the touchscreen. Typing on the keypad was pretty fast, which was proof that all the years I spent learning the keypad were still paying off   The keypad to me was still intuitive and comfortable to use.

When navigating trough the menu I touched the screen instinctively to confirm an action, not because I was prompted to. In other words it was very easy for me to adapt to the phone’s advantage of getting the best of both worlds.

The learning period was really short.

The X3 will be priced at $161 (125 Euros).

Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type features:

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It’s been a while since I started using the Nokia E72 as may primary phone. Sometimes I try other mobiles to test Nimbuzz but I keep coming back to the E72. Testing a vast amount of apps over time, and after reading dedicated Nokia blogs, I ended up with 5 apps that I use most on my E72.  Now I would like to share this top with you in case you are looking for some useful apps for your own Nokia mobile.

So here it goes, my top 5 E72 apps:

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“Symbian is dead. Long live Symbian.” one might say after the news that Symbian will no longer power Nokia’s N series . Well, the truth is that Symbian is far away from being “dead“,  or anything like that. The guys from the Symbian team are working hard on the new Symbian^4 which is scheduled for release sometime in Q4 of 2010 or at the beginning of 2011. We are lucky enough to see some early screenshots of the new operating system. The images were captured via an emulator so, there is actually code behind it, not just a beautiful design mock up.

At a first look here is what we can say about the Symbian^4 features:

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Now there is no more doubt that Nimbuzz is the best app for your Symbian mobile. This was proven before when Nimbuzz won Nokia’s “Must Have Social Networking app of the year” Ovi award and when OVI users voted us as their second favorite Nokia app .

Now we have yet another reason to celebrate. We just won the Best Symbian App at Gettie Awards 2010 !! Thanks for all your support guys!  Nimbuzz had to compete with 7,000 apps from more than 100 countries so this is quite an achievement!

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Good news for all the Symbian users out there: we have a new Nimbuzz update ready to download!

As always we have worked hard and developed some great new features that will make your life so much easier. Here is what’s new:

• Online presence to your phonebook – see which of your phonebook contacts are online with Nimbuzz
• Free SMS invites – Invite all your friends for free to Nimbuzz via SMS !
• Faster and more responsive kinetic scrolling – for touch screen devices
• More options for Twitter refresh frequency
  
• Control Nimbuzz connectivity while in roaming

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