eBuddy for iPhone update

Hi iPhone & iPod Touch users!

Last weekend the latest versions of our iPhone/iPod Touch apps became available in the Apple App Store !

We’ve been working very hard to make some of your most important wishes for eBuddy come true. Curious to know what’s new? Keep on reading …

THEMES

If you’re the proud owner of eBuddy Pro you can now personalize eBuddy by setting a theme. There are 11 themes to choose from, ranging from the very spacy ‘Retro’ to the cool and smooth ‘Dark Snow Leopard’ . So now you can make eBuddy look just the way you like:

AUTO-AWAY

With eBuddy your favorite IM accounts can stay online even when the application is not running on your iPhone/iPod Touch. Of course you get Push Notifications when new messages arrive, but you can’t always reply immediately. So we made a new feature: auto-away.

With auto-away you can automatically set your status to Away after a few minutes, and you can even set your own message that will be automatically shown to your buddies when they start a chat with you.

Pretty smart, don’t you think ?!

AND THERE’S MORE

In this update many other improvements were made, including:

• - Customizing your Push Notifications: choose to get a sound, alert, or badge update on new messages or chats
• - Seeing the nicknames of your buddies on MSN, AIM & ICQ
• - Several bugfixes
• - Etc.

LOOKING BACK

Ever since we launched eBuddy in the App Store last year we’ve been amazed by its success and the great response we got from you. In December we therefore added eBuddy Pro with even more features.

Our apps have now been downloaded over 4 million times !

We try to keep eBuddy simple and easy-to-use, but at the same time have the best chat features that you like. Here’s a quick look at just a few of the things we did in the last few months:

• - We added landscape mode so you can now chat while standing on your head
• - Now you can get Push Notifications for incoming messages up to 2 hours for the free version, and up to 3 days for eBuddy Pro
• - The buddy list and chat screen have been redesigned
• - We added Themes (eBuddy Pro only)
• - We added MySpace & Hyves IM
• - The stability & reliability has been improved
• - … and much more!

We’re very happy with all these improvements, and we hope you are too. Stay tuned, more is coming!

Let us know what you think in the comments!

- Ivar

P.S. You can of course download eBuddy for iPhone/iPod Touch and eBuddy Pro for iPhone/iPod Touch from the App Store if you haven’t done so already .