In a move that will appeal to many of its Apple-loving users, Nimbuzz has simultaneously launched an updated iPhone / iPod Touch application and a shiny new desktop client for Macs. The company offers a social messenger service that lets people access IM and social networks with one set of credentials from a single location and thus competes with a slew of other companies on both the mobile and desktop front.
Nimbuzz has released a new version of its iPhone application (iTunes link), which has already proven to be quite a hit on the platform: the app has consistently done well on App Store ranking charts in a wide variety of countries worldwide. In the startup’s home turf The Netherlands as well as in France, Nimbuzz claims 1 out of 5 iPhone or iPod Touch owners have installed and use the tool on a regular basis.
The new version of the app brings file-sharing in the cloud capabilities, VoIP calling on a range of IM networks (both over Wi-Fi and 3G) and push notification with home screen alerts of both incoming calls or chats through Nimbuzz or third-party networks like Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk. Finally, the iPhone app now boasts location-awareness, which allows Nimbuzz contacts to share and retrieve their physical locations on a Google map.
The Mac desktop client is nothing spectacular but it doesn’t hurt to have another decent, good-looking IM and social network aggregator application for Apple computers. The unified app supports connections via Facebook, AIM, MySpace, Google Talk (Orkut), Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), ICQ and more. Nimbuzz says its product for Mac is the only IM product to provide high-quality VoIP calling direct from the desktop among IM buddies on Nimbuzz and the more popular IM networks.
I find it annoying to be forced to create just another account to be able to use my standard messenger accounts. I understand the motivation behind it – but I don’t like it.
deal with it.
Incredibly useful comment!
Yes, I deal with it – I don’t use it.
WTF cares?
only 30 minute push notification? Do developers not know that a limitation like that makes it worthless? PUSH MEANS PUSH, not PUSH FOR A LITTLE WHILE…geez
deal with it.
hehe…i see what you did there.
I agree completely. There are apps that can do push forever, for example, TextFree Lite. Why can’t they do the same?
I’m with Josh, 30 minute push makes this cripples this app
30 minutes of Push is even more disappointing than 30 days of Night.
In the UK the modal score for this update is in the high 1s
I just realized Robin’s a dude. Doesn’t affect my view of his work, but weird because he totally has a girl’s name.
At least his parents had more imagination than ‘John’.
At least his parents were not cousins… “Jimbo”.
I’d call a monkey Jimbo.
Everyone loves monkeys
Your father loved them too much.
This is weak, can’t even type in “symbols” into the password form when entering your logins for each of the bigger chat clients. How can I use this if I can’t even signin. Nimbuzz FAIL!
Why the hell would you limit the push-feature to 30 minutes.. The AIM app allows 24 hours, so it’s not like it’s not supported by Apple..
Nimbuzz Mac, finally ! It looks great, lovin’ it !
I’ve used both the latest eBuddy update and Nimbuzz and what I’ve concluded is that using Nimbuzz still feels a bit of a better experience, even though both does the same stuff but with these latest updates to Nimbuzz I might get rid of eBuddy app soon.
Has anyone run Nimbuzz on Win Mobile 6.1? What did you think? Any issues?
In light of the recent post discussing how the Twitter employee’s accounts were compromised, how comfortable are you all giving your login credentials to Nimbuzz? I’d guess they’re all getting stored on the Nimbuzz servers to handle push?
I put in everything but Gmail, because that is too valuable, but Google Talk is where everyone I know is….
I’d like an app that does what Nimbuzz does, but keeps my credentials on the phone only.