As part of its efforts to get a bigger slice of the Middle East and North African (MENA) market, Nimbuzz has updated its Java mobile app with support for the Arabic language, which up until now was supported in Nimbuzz mobile apps for Symbian and BlackBerry platforms as well as in the PC/Mac client.
At the moment, Nimbuzz has close to seven million Nimbuzz users in the region and the idea is to further drive the adoption by including the mass-market feature phones to the mix. During the past 18 months, the company had more than 45,000 new user registrations per day in Saudi Arabia on Symbian devices only. Other countries in the area, such as Egypt, Syria and Libya, are also signing up with Nimbuzz with more than 20,000 registrations per week.
If you don’t know, Nimbuzz makes a mobile app that allows users to talk, chat, message, connect and socialize while on the go. The company makes its money from low-cost VoIP calls which are also beneficial to the end users…