Not all can afford $600 smartphone and stay connected to internet 24/7. But at Nimbuzz they want their users to be connected to internet despite any difficulties and that’s why they have introduced ping. See the video demo below.
Basically, once you turn on Ping you appear online to your Nimbuzz friends even when the app is closed. When one of them tries to reach you, Nimbuzz sends a free SMS to your phone saying someone is looking for you. Then its upto you whether to log in and start a data session and chat. So no need to keep the app running all day eating up your battery and data.
Ping is free to enable. Just go to settings in Nimbuzz, verify your phone number and you are done. It works on all Java and Nokia Symbian phones. Nimbuzz says its optimized for low bandwidth networks as well, which is the case with most of us here anyway.
Now the bad news. For now Ping is only live on Telkomsel in Indonesia, which they say covers more than 88 million subscribers. Nimbuzz says a dozen operators across the Middle East and Asia Pacific will follow over the next few months and two carriers in India are in the plans too. We dont know which ones yet. Once it lands here we’ll test it out and let you know. Stay tuned!!
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