M2Mobi Blog

This weekend our server administrator had a lot of “fun”. Normally we already have around 10.000 overall downloads of Nulaz per day, but not a lot through iTunes . Then suddenly our number of users increased rapidly. Uploaded pictures were many more than ususal. Why this rise all of a sudden? Because we made our Nulaz AR premium version free for one day for the AppEvent. Basically, it is an event that consists of making one iPhone app free per day.

It was organized by only one person: Wouter de Smet. He made an enormous effort in contacting a lot of Dutch and Belgium developers to take part in the AppEvent. We would like to thank him for this chance we were given.

And of course, we would really like to thank YOU all. Yes, you, our Nulaz users that hit the AppStore on Saturday by breaking the 5000 downloads barrier for iPhone in a day. We ranked the 12th most downloaded free app in the AppStore. We are very excited with such success, and hope that you are enjoying Nulaz as much as we do.

However, we would like to apologize as well if you noticed that our Nulaz service was slower than normal that day. So many downloads of the iPhone version on top of our usual Nulaz users put some extra strain on our servers which made it slower than usual.

iPhone users use more data traffic than the rest. We are working already in that so it doesn’t happen again.

And to conclude, we have a surprise for you: SMS My Position will be free soon as well in the AppEvent! Please stay tuned.

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Million downloads getjar

As you know already we have spent a lot of time and effort in developing Nulaz, making it a better service and connecting people from all around the world. Sometimes it was easy and fun, other times it was quite hard and demanding. But there are certain milestones that when achieved make all this investment worth. And we achieved a big one.

We are extremely pleased to announce that we broke the 1,000,000 downloads barrier in GetJar!

So, what are you waiting for joining our community, making friends and finding cool places? We do all the hard work for you, and you get it for free. Could there be a better Christmas present than Nulaz? Hard to find I would say.

Great news from Apple. Our cool Nulaz Augmented Reality version is now in the App Store – Hooray! Finally you can enjoy all the power of the iPhone 3GS in your favourite application. As mentioned in previous posts, the review on iPhoneclub and their announcement of the app, this version brings you a totally new concept.

The traditional map includes a new option (AR), which opens your phone’s camera and displays all the places and people around you based on the distance and direction. It feels just like your vision was enhanced with all the information around you.

Forget about spending time orienting yourself and the map in the right position to find places. Nulaz AR does it for you. And even more: it guides you to the place you select, using the phone’s compass. You just need to follow the direction of an arrow, that’s it. Nothing else!  Now there is no excuse for getting lost.

What is more, with this version you get premium content from WCities for 250 cities worldwide as well, and all for only € 1,59!

Mmmm, Koosje Cafe….It’s close, but where?…Aha! Here it is!

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SMS your address in two clicks. You will get a message with an address and a link to a map:

From: Michiel

Message: “Hello, I am at Plantage Kerklaan 25, 1018 Amsterdam. Click on the link to see my position on the map: http://is.gd/543rx“

The mobile phone has two killer applications: making a call and sending an SMS (text message). According to all analysts, location based services (including Nulaz) have been in pole position for becoming the next killer application for many years now. However promising they might be, they haven’t reached mass market yet. Why? It’s a complicated story. That’s why we decided to break it down to something that everybody receives and everybody understands: SMS and Address.

SMS my position is available in 5 languages in the the Nokia OVI Store, the iPhone App Store, Blackberry’s App World, Windows Marketplace, Getjar, and it will be available on Adroid soon.

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We’ve just added some nice event content to our service. Fire up your Nulaz application and check out which concerts and events will be held around you.

We just had a nice review on iPhoneclub.nl written about our upcoming Nulaz AR Premium application for the Appstore. We’ll keep you posted about when we get it approved.

We already had a web launcher in the store for a while, but finally we are pleased to announce that our full Nulaz application has been released in the Apple App Store. After an admission process that took more than a month, all iPhone users around the world are able to download our application now.

With Nulaz for iPhone you have all J2ME and web cool stuff: map, friends, locations… But not only we have those, there is also much more. We squeezed the powerful iPhone engine to come up with some new amazing features, like a new map, a more powerful search, more descriptive lists, etc … All livened up with fancy animations, a cool design and some easter eggs you will have to discover!

But that’s not all. Right now we are working on the new version, applying all the new iPhone 3GS features like compass, camera, notifications … and compatible with iPod Touch as well! So make yourself ready for the upcoming Augmented Reality version!

Don’t hesitate, go to the App Store and tune up your iPhone with Nulaz!