Official Nimbuzz Blog

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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All of us at Nimbuzz are happy to announce a brand new partnership with Sonim, makers of the world’s toughest phones! Now you can chat with Nimbuzz underwater, drop Nimbuzz onto concrete from 2m, or take Nimbuzz into temperatures ranging from -20C to +55C – just some of the conditions the Spirit XP2 is built to withstand.

Nimbuzz is preinstalled on the new Sonim Spirit XP2 in Europe and will soon be available on Sonim in the US, giving you the chance to stay in contact with all your friends even in the toughest conditions.

The new Spirit XP2 will offer you besides Nimbuzz also:

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Great news for our Indonesian users! Nimbuzz has just joined forces with Telkomsel, Indonesia’s largest mobile operator, and will be available to more than 82 million subscribers!!

Unlimited access to Nimbuzz is  available with a flat rate data plan so you don’t need to pay as you go (pay per MB). If you have the Telkomsel SIM card just send an SMS to 2520 with the text “Reg Nimbuzz Minggu” (Cost of the SMS 2000RP) for one week unlimited access  OR  “Reg Nimbuzz Bulan” for one month unlimited access (cost of the SMS 8000 RP) .

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Good News for users from India!! Nimbuzz is now available on the only “Youth Mobile Service” of the country, Virgin Mobile. The two companies have now partnered to launch Nimbuzz WAP for Virgin Mobile subscribers under the brand name ‘Vchatter’.

To get Vchatter all you need to do is:

• Access Vchatter through Virgin’s popular v-bytes (http://www.virginmobile.in/v-bytes.html) Data Portal
• Vbytes WAP portal is accessible from the center button on your handset
• Login and register your communities to see all your friends
• Chat with your friends across social networks on the go!

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We are proud to announce that O2 is launching the highly anticipated Toshiba TG01 handset with Nimbuzz preinstalled, right now, across all O2 channels in Germany!

Toshiba’s TG01 was first unveiled earlier in the year and ever since everybody is looking forward to get their hands on the hottest 4.1 inch screen mobile out there.

It is a great achievement for  Nimbuzz to be the social messaging partner of choice for Toshiba and O2. We worked closely together with Toshiba and O2 to deliver the lifestyle communications features on the Toshiba TG01 for contacting all of your friends across multiple networks from one place. This collaboration is about enhancing the “hyper-connected” lifestyle of mobile users today.

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TATA Indicom, a leading CDMA based mobile operator and one of India’s most respected corporate brand names, has just agreed to promote Nimbuzz through its very popular TATA Zone (mtata.nimbuzz.com) to all 35 million subscribers.

This move is a huge step by TATA also that is planning to launch a GSM network this year adding to their share of 9.3% of the total Indian mobile subscriber base.

Vikas, our Country Head for India, exclaimed, “We are registering over 600,000 users per month and this has been a terrific start for us in India which is a top market now! Since TATA Indicom is a name to reckon with and it is our pleasure to be associated with a brand like Tata.”

Warm welcome all TATA subscribers! Happy mobile social networking!

Tata Teleservices Limited is one of India’s leading private telecom service providers, which extends its pan-India presence over 320,000 towns and villages across all of India’s 22 telecom circles.

Today we are announcing a partnership with Giovani in Italy, so this is mainly directed at all our Italian friends and Giovani members.

From now on you can chat and call your friends all over the network via Nimbuzz! We welcome all our friends at Giovani to the Nimbuzz network and it’s ever growing community worldwide.

Chat straight from the Giovani website, or use Nimbuzz Mobile to stay in touch with all your friends while on the go.

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Nimbuzz will be attending its first Mobile World Congress – and we are doing it with a BANG!

We are proud to have partnered with both RIM (Research In Motion) and Toshiba to develop the next generation mobile social messaging application!

Nimbuzz was selected by Toshiba to provide an application that integrates effortlessly into your sophisticated and “hyper-connected” digital lifestyle, and so we are launching on Toshiba’s new powerhouse, the TG01!

We are also working with RIM on a number of global initiatives and will launch our next generation BlackBerry versions in Q2.

Join us at the booth of Toshiba (Hall 8, A 111) and RIM (Hall 8, B 91).

We will also be attending the TechCrunch Talk on Thursday 19th of February, 3pm-6:30pm .

See you all there!