Nimbuzz, a mobile VoIP operator and social-network aggregator, has launched a VoIP-for-Android application, trumpeting the growth of mobile VoIP while it’s at it.
The ability to make calls enriches the existing Nimbuzz for Android application, launched earlier this year and available free from the Android Marketplace and Nimbuzz.com.
The app can also carry calls over Skype, Google, Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger, so the app acts as a sort of aggregate portal for VoIP calling. Nimbuzz uses Global IP Solutions’s VoiceEngine Mobile platform to deliver the calls.
The flagship Nimbuzz service offers calling and instant messaging with friends across its own network and within other online social communities (Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk (Orkut), AIM, Facebook , MySpace, Gadu Gadu and others).
The company says it’s experiencing notable growth: More than 300 million Nimbuzz calls are made each year, it said. Nimbuzz says it passed the 13-million-registration milestone last week, and has a growth rate of more than a million new registrations each month.
In a recent survey Nimbuzz did, 69 percent of its users said they expect to use mobile VoIP calling more in the coming 12 months.
“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 and instant messaging with Nimbuzz,” said Evert-Jaap Lugt, founder & CEO of Nimbuzz, in a statement. “From an industry perspective, today’s announcement firmly establishes VoIP’s place in the future of the mobile ecosystem.”
