Official Nimbuzz Blog

Starting today, to help you celebrate these special moments together with your friends and family abroad we have a present for you. We will add a free extra 10% to your account every time you purchase NimbuzzOut credits. All you need to do is use the promo code “CHUNJIE” when you top up your account. This promotion starts today and will last until 31^st of January 2012.

On top of that we’ll give you a 50% discount on every minute you call to China on the 23^rd of December 2012. All you have to do is make the call.

Buy Credits now and take advantage of our NimbuzzOut super deal during the Spring Festival. Be closer to your friends and family.

This Ramadan and Eid be closer to your family and friends and call them via NimbuzzOut.

Starting 1^st of August 2011 we are slashing down the rates up to an amazing 25% so you can call more for less.

Don’t miss the chance to call to Egypt for only $0.105/min, Iran for only  $0.113/min, Kuwait for $0.095/min or Turkey for only $0.019/min. You can see the complete list of discounted rates here.

Besides these great discounts we have a BONUS offer for you. Every time you buy $40 NimbuzzOut credit we will give you an extra $4 for free.  All you need to do is use the Promo Code: Ramadan , each time you make a purchase of $40.

Buy Credits now and take advantage of our NimbuzzOut super deal during Ramadan and Eid. Be closer to your friends and family.

From the 28^th of January until 2^nd of February 2011, we have registered an overwhelming increase in the number of NimbuzzOut calls to Egypt. Peaking at 380% with the average number of calls going up to 139% during the 4 days.

The graph below reflects an interesting overview of the events in Egypt since January 25^th, 2011. (more…)

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…)

2011 it’s almost here and as every year, we want to be closer to our family and friends no matter where they are!

To celebrate the start of the New Year and to help you connect with your loved ones we are giving you 20% Extra NimbuzzOut credits for every time you purchase NimbuzzOut credits, until January 31, 2011.

We hope that this way you will be able to:

• spend more time catching up with your friends and see what their party plans are
• reassuring your mom and dad you are ok  (parents always need to be super sure about that )
• or even call abroad and make sure your hotel reservation is booked

And all this via NimbuzzOut calling which is the cheapest and most convenient way to call mobile phone numbers and landlines anywhere in the world.

How to get your 20% extra credit?

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Last year we organized a contest for our NimbuzzOut users to win: a fantastic holiday to their most called destination and one year of unlimited NimbuzzOut calls on us.

Lars and Mark were the happy winners and we thought would be nice to catch up with them and see how they use Nimbuzz as a part of their daily lives.

Turns out they use Nimbuzz and NimbuzzOut to save money on their calling bill and stray connected to family and friends.

Lars, originally from Denmark met his French wife in England. Now they both live in Syria. Due to their international roots they are both calling friends and family in Denmark, France, Algeria, as well as in other countries.  Lars told me: “So for a couple like us that are very “globalised”, an application like Nimbuzz is great. My wife also found that your rates for Algeria are better than those of Skype! ” .  He won the first prize and we offered him a voucher to cover his holiday expenses, but instead of using all the amount at once  he divided the voucher and had several smaller vacations and a longer one in Istanbul .

Mark is originally from America and now lives in Panama. A lot of his friends and family are still in the US and Mark told us that he regularly uses  NimbuzzOut to call his friends and stay in touch with his  family back home. Mark still has another month and a half of free NimbuzzOut calling.

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Yes, it’s true. Skype will no longer be accessible via Nimbuzz starting October 31, 2010. Why? Skype asked us to remove support for their service.

In 2008 we started working on creating a free mobile communications service for the way you live in the online and mobile world, today and in the future. A service used by everyone, no matter what handset, where they were located, or how they wanted to communicate. All your friends in one place, combined with free mobile calls, chat/IM or SMS/texting.

Read on for more on Skype’s decision.

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You can now use NimbuzzOut to call 33 countries worldwide for only 2 cents ($) per minute!

Just to put this in perspective with these rates you can call for 50 minutes spending only $1!

These almost free rates apply when calling to landlines in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel,  Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia,  Netherlands,  New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA.

The same rates of 2 cents ($) per minute also apply when calling to mobile phones in the following countries Canada, China, Guam, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Singapore and US or to landlines in the following cities Buenos Aires  and Cordoba (Argentina),  Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo (Brazil), Guadalajara and Mexico City (Mexico),  Moscow and St. Petersburgh (Russia)

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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!

We are happy to see that most of you, 60% to be exact, have already tried NimbuzzOut calling. As we can see from the poll 29% of you used NimbuzzOut calling to reach family abroad, 8% relatives from abroad and 8% to reach home while abroad.  12% of you use NimbuzzOut to call contacts in the same country and only 3% to get in touch with business contact abroad.

Also it looks like some of you have not tried it yet, 40% to be precise.  Well, we would like to use this opportunity to remind you what is NimbuzzOut and why you should use it.

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Good news for iPhone users:  now you can make free VOIP calls over 3G on iPhone with Nimbuzz!

Yes, after months of waiting it’s finally happened: the Wi-Fi hunt is over. Now you can call all your friends from Nimbuzz, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger or Gtalk for free, using just your 3G internet connection and Nimbuzz!

You will also cut down your international calling costs with NimbuzzOut (NimbuzzOut rates). Now you can use your NimbuzzOut credits to call your family and friends from abroad really(really) cheap from wherever you are.

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