Norwegian Numo soars past 1,5 million registered users.

Numo AS

10-05-2010

 

Norwegian Numo soars past 1,5 million registered users.
Numo's application portfolio continues to grow beyond 1,5 million registered users.

Oslo, Norway – May 10, 2010. Numo, an up and coming mobile utilities application developer, can today announce customer number 1,5 million. At 9:37 on Saturday the 8th of may, customer number 1,5 million was registered.

Numo distributes it`s applications, the Numo Finder and the Numo SMS preview through several channels. “We are excited to have several Nordic operators preinstalling our Finder applications on various handsets, because this gives us a much better visibility in the marketplace”, says Rudi Rørstad, CMO/Co-founder of Numo. Numo Finder is a very popular mobile caller-ID app, where the number and name is instantly shown for incoming calls, even if you don’t have the name and number in your phone book. It also includes an unlimited search service via the mobile, a global address book, and now also comes with map display. Numo Finder is the winner of the prestigious GSMA Global Awards 2009 as the most innovative mobile consumer product.

In addition to the preinstalled handsets, the global marketplaces of Sony Ericson, Nokia, GetJar among others, provides the main distribution channels of Numo products. "We are excited to continue developing useful utilities like SMS Preview and bring new applications such as Autosync, a hassle free backup solution, soon to the market”, says Trond Ingebretsen, CEO of Numo.

 

About Numo
Numo (formerly Mobile Nordic) focuses on creating intuitive mobile solutions that moves the company closer to its vision of "the interactive global phonebook in your pocket". With its GSMA Award winning products, users get tools that make it easy to find any phone number, person, place, SMS, see who is calling with reverse lookup, or whatever they are searching for in one interactive communication center.

Numo is going for global reach and have today offices and affiliates in Beijing, Frankfurt, Helsinki, London, Madrid, Oslo (HQ) and Taipei. For more information please visit www.numosolutions.com.

More information
Rudi Rørstad  Co-founder / CMO  +47 4820 3030, rudi@numosolutions.com
Trond Ingebretsen CEO   +47 9825 6001, trond@numosolutions.com

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Numo's SMS Preview is one of the most downloaded mobile applications on Ovi Store by Nokia and continues to grow beyond 1 million downloads.

Oslo, Norway – April 15, 2010. Numo, an up and coming mobile utilities application developer, joins the ranks of several popular developers who have surpass the 1 million download mark on Ovi Store by Nokia. Trond Ingebretsen, CEO of Numo commented: “Working with Nokia has allowed us to reach the mass market with our applications in a truly global fashion in over 170 countries on 50 different types of handsets. The number of downloads we have been able to achieve in such a short time frame can be attributed to the reach that Nokia has, hence Ovi Store is an essential part of our distribution strategy. We are excited to continue developing useful utilities like SMS Preview and bring new applications such as Autosync, a hassle free backup solution, soon to the Ovi Store.” “SMS Preview is a great utility app that more than 1 million Nokia users are enjoying to make more of their devices,” said Marco Argenti, VP and Global Head of Media, Nokia. “We look forward to more Numo utility apps inside Ovi Store that will continue to increase the functionality and ultimately value of Nokia devices to our users.” SMS Preview is available globally along with SMS Preview Pro for Symbian OS, S60 5.0 devices. With the Pro version advance message actions can be taken directly to an incoming text message by clicking on functions like "answer" and "delete" directly in the preview. In Nokia's Ovi Store and in other market places, the flagship product Numo Finder is also marketed. Numo Finder is a very popular mobile caller-ID app, where the number and name is instantly shown for incoming calls, even if you don’t have the name and number in your phone book. It also includes an unlimited search service via the mobile, a global address book, and now also comes with map display. Numo Finder is the winner of the prestigious GSMA Global Awards 2009 as the most innovative mobile consumer product. Download SMS Preview free of charge here, SMS Preview at Nokia Ovi Store

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="386" caption="Our Winning Team from Barcelona Last Year"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Event at Night"][/caption] With several members of our team down at GSMA Mobile World Congress meeting with partners and potential new partners right now it is exciting to look back and see where we have come!Event at night [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Busy running around for meetings"][/caption] A year ago we won Europe's Most Innovative Consumer Application with Numo Finder, this year we reached over 1 Million active SMS Preview users and it continues to grow. With two new innovations in the oven cooking up for a public spring launch (shhsh we have been Beta testing with some big partners.) we plan on trying to win again next year. For the full Press Release from Barcelona you can click here

So with the move to the new office (photos coming soon) it has been a whirlwind of activity. Last week we got some great news from Nokia, not only are we one of the most popular downloaded application on OVI, SMS Preview is a OVI Top App of 2009! It is a huge honor to be considerd along the lines of applications like Nimbuzz and Facebook. Check out the other winners and try their applications here. We are working hard on updating SMS Preview to offer even better functionality and easier setup, so stay tuned!

With the holiday season things winded down here at the Numo offices, but now that is 2010 look out! A lot of new products and improvements are scheduled for the next few months as well you will see us a lot more active online and especially on the mobile. Exciting news to share, we have been selected as one of the Global Finalist for the Red Herring Awards! Find out more at http://redherring.com/Home/26265 We will be sure to post more often with our latest developments and new, as well as try to find our voice in this blog world by bringing you interesting content. We hoped you had a great holiday and are as excited for the new year as we are! Note: It is -22 Celcius in Oslo today with parts of Norway seeing even colder temperatures so to all of our friends in the UK, it could be worst! - Brian from Numo

SMS Preview Returns Control to Users

Ovi Publisher Successes | 10 December, 2009

In its first two months of being available in Ovi Store, over 600,000 users discovered the simplicity and convenience of SMS Preview, a user-friendly text-messaging solution by Numo Solutions based in Norway. Full story at Forum Nokia http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/ovi-publisher-successes/2009/12/10/sms-preview-returns-control-to-users

Gartner, Inc. has identified the top 10 consumer mobile applications for 2012. Gartner listed applications based on their impact on consumers and industry players, considering revenue, loyalty, business model, consumer value and estimated market penetration. Of the top 3 on the Gartner list; 1. Money transfer, 2. Location-based services and 3. Mobile search, Numo is already well positioned in mobile search with its Numo Finder. In the Numo roadmap are products & services that also fits location-based services based on mobile search and presence. Additional information is available in the Gartner report “Dataquest Insight: The Top Ten Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012". The report is available at http://www.gartner.com/resId=1205513.

Numo SMS Preview has hit record figures reaching over 600 000 registered users after just two months. At the Forum Nokia Developer Conference India in Bangalore, SMS Preview was listed as the most downloaded app from Ovi Store India.

Wow! It has been a whirlwind of activity and planning but we finally have launched the company officially now as Numo Solutions! (Numo for short) Check out the new website at http://www.numosolutions.com There is a lot more to the whole rebranding thing as we discovered along the way then simply changing names and logos, it forces you to reevaluate your positioning, what you stand for and what's important. Moving forward with Mobile Nordic to where we wanted to be was just not possible as we have big global ambitions and the name/products were too geographically linked. Also, another exciting part about the rebranding under one identity was it allowed us now to have a BLOG, to have a twitter account, and to be more active on web and mobile social spaces. Plus we now have a very comprehensive customer service process so we are able to support our users and have a direct feedback line to making our products even better! So please give us any feedback and let us know how we can do it better everyday. Get going with Numo!

So this is the first of many blog posts to come, we are on the eve of D-Day before we launch into a new brand, I have slept very little combined with the fact the sun has gone into protective custody in Norway, however we are getting closer and closer to getting ready. With the new clients fully tested and links/bugs being worked out on the website I am really looking forward to getting it up. Over the next few days as things transition over we hope you will bear with us as we go through these growing pains of moving into being a more global application developer. Even more exciting is loading the new application into the various app stores just in time for the holiday season. Ok back to work but hopefully will wake up tomorrow as the new Numo Solutions!