Nimbuzz launches High Quality VoIP calls on Android
Nimbuzz launches High Quality VoIP calls on Android Free Mobile Voice Calls on Nimbuzz on Android San Francisco, 17 DECEMBER 2009 – Nimbuzz, the new-generation mobile VoIP operator & social network aggregator, has today launched voice calls (VoIP) on Android, complementing its multi award-winning instant messaging and social network aggregation service. The announcement by Nimbuzz represents the culmination of a rapid advance in the development of the Nimbuzz for Android application, launched earlier this year and available free from the Android Marketplace & Nimbuzz.com. Utilizing Global IP Solutions’ VoiceEngine™ Mobile, Nimbuzz will now deliver high quality VoIP calls from Nimbuzz on Android, as well as calls over Skype, Google, Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger, providing users with a complete communications and messaging service via the new Nimbuzz application. Nimbuzz’ free to download, free to use application launched in May 2008, and already enables millions of users worldwide to enjoy free calls and instant messaging with friends across their own network and favourite online social communities (Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk (Orkut), AIM, Facebook , MySpace, Gadu Gadu and others). Nimbuzz technology has pioneered next generation mobile calling, with over 300 million Nimbuzz calls already made each year. In a recent survey, 69% of Nimbuzz users* said they expect to use mobile VoIP calling more in the coming 12 months. The announcement comes at a time of phenomenal growth for Nimbuzz; having passed the 13 million registration milestone just last week, Nimbuzz now enjoys a current growth rate of over a million new registrations each month (that’s a new Nimbuzz user every 3 seconds!), an active user base of over 30% and an international user footprint of 220 countries, covering every corner of the globe. Evert-Jaap Lugt, founder & CEO of Nimbuzz commented: “We are delighted to launch VoIP calls over Android and are excited to welcome our existing and new Android users to enjoy the benefits of free mobile VoIP calls & instant messaging with Nimbuzz. From an industry perspective, today’s announcement firmly establishes VoIP’s place in the future of the mobile eco system.” - Ends - * Nimbuzz global user survey, conducted by Survey Monkey, c.21,000 respondents, June 2009. About Nimbuzz Nimbuzz is an award-winning, new generation mobile VoIP operator, using the internet capabilities of the mobile device to provide free & great value calls, free instant messaging between social networks (Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Facebook, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk, AIM, MySpace, Hyves & others) with real time presence, location-based features and a variety of rich added-value utilities. The Nimbuzz application is free to download and uses a mobile internet data connection over 3G, 2G or Wifi networks, and across thousands of the world’s most popular mobile devices on all major platforms (Symbian, J2ME, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Windows Mobile) Blog: http://blog.nimbuzz.com Press: www.nimbuzz.com/press Media enquiries: USA: Tobias Kemper - +1-415-613-9201 Email: tobias (at) nimbuzz.com ROW: Kevin Fitzsimons Email: kevin (at) nimbuzz.co.uk
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