Nimbuzz, the Netherlands-based communications technology provider, announced last week that its solution, which connects a wide selection of voice-over-IM and social networking communities with one another, will be preinstalled on the first available Toshiba TG01 smartphones.

Telecommunications provider O2 (aka Telefonica Europe) will release the phones—which have raised high anticipation since first being shown publicly in February—in the German market.

Nimbuzz, which currently claims to be adding some 750,000 users per month, has set out to erase the proprietary technical barriers that separate popular VoIP/IM communities—such as Skype, Google Talk, and Yahoo! Messenger—as well as the social networking sites Facebook, MySpace, and others—primarily for mobile phone users. (See more coverage of the solution at VoIPPlanet.com here.)

Nimbuzz reports significant user take-up, both in the developing world, where the application allows inexpensive phone calls and often serves as users' primary connection to the Internet, and in the developed world, where it is a lifestyle product, letting the "hyper-connected" maintain a broad range of contacts with friends and associates, according to Tobias Kemper, head of communications and social media at Nimbuzz.

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