Nimbuzz+Skype=Cheapest International Mobile Calls

March 13, 2010 1 By Jakob

At the end of this guide, you will be able to call other countries for free or nearly nothing – from your mobile phone!

Your contacts will be able to see that you’re calling and respond or call back!

Usually when you want to call family, friends or other contacts in other countries with your mobile, your left with no other option than to simply give them a call and pay hefty fees to service providers who charge you way more than their costs justify.

Here’s a small guide to how to work around that in a few, simple steps.
What will you need to complete this guide:

  • Your mobile phone with 3G or Wireless internet connection (this guide was made with a symbian based Nokia E72)
  • That’s it !!!

To make VoIP calls possible on your phone you will need an application that supports such services. For Nokia phones a few well-known services are available: Fring, Skype, and Nimbuzz. In this test I’ll make use of the Nimbuzz client – that’s the app I like the most. Like Fring, it supports several chat clients incl. Skype as well as SkypeOut and Nimbuzz’ own VoIP service, NimbuzzOut. On to the first step of the test.

1. With your mobile browser, on your phone – go to http://get.nimbuzz.com or take your computer’s browser to http://www.nimbuzz.com/en/mobile/download and have Nimbuzz downloaded to your computer, or an sms download link send to your mobile phone.

2. Install Nimbuzz to your mobile phone and create the instant chat, VoIP and SIP services you would like to use. Make sure to add your Skype account.

3. Go to skype.com and log in to your account at http://www.skype.com/go/myaccount.

4. Buy some Skype credit. If this is your first time I recommend starting with the lowest possible amount to avoid disappointment.

5. On https://secure.skype.com/account/caller-id/settings set your caller ID to your mobile phone number. This is what makes it possible for people to see that you’re the one who’s calling and to call you back.

6. In Nimbuzz, make sure to set your VoIP provider correctly. Start the app on your mobile, select options, settings, VoIP provider settings, choose SkypeOut. The reason not to choose NimbuzzOut is that they currently do not offer caller ID, which is key to making the whole thing work.

7. Finally, set your connection in the Nimbuzz app: select options, settings, Connection. I recommend that you  indicate under Default connection that the app should Always ask which connection to use. In addition make sure that you answer Yes to using Wi-Fi when available.

8. If you now would like to call people directly from your address book, you need to make sure that their address book telephone numbers include international dialing codes (+country code or “00country code, ie +31 or 0031 for the Netherlands).

You are now all set to make your first international or local telephone call using Nimbuzz to call through SkypeOut.

From the chat contact list, go twice to the right to arrive at the SkypeOut menu and call someone – nearly for free.

Enjoy !!

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