Startling stats from mobile communications app.
Mobile communications app Nimbuzz has been downloaded more than 150 million times, the company has revealed.
50% of those downloads have come from the company's own site, with five million more on Nokia's Ovi Store, and 45 million on independent app store GetJar.
What's more, Nimbuzz says its users have now racked up more than 3.65 billion mobile voice minutes since it first launched in May 2008.
The service currently has 28 million registered users, and is signing up 70,000 new ones a day.
Hang on. 150 million downloads but 28 million registered users? How does that work?
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We asked Nimbuzz, and they explained that while people may initiate a download, that doesn't mean it completes, installs or that they register. And, of course, there would be multiple downloads for users who have upgraded their handset.
Even so, 28 million registrations is an impressive figure, and Nimbuzz certainly isn't scared to take a swing at its rivals.
"Unlike Skype, Nimbuzz is the only open universal communications platform on the market today," says CEO Evert Jaap Lugt.
"With 28 million registered users across all major mobile operating systems, our success can be attributed to the fact that Nimbuzz is not solely a chat platform or a VoIP service, but a complete communications service that includes free talk and messaging."
