Download it from
www.mxit.com/mxitpc

MXit on PC with the phone emulator is still handy though – as you get to see the real original MXit version for your mobile on your PC! And you can understand what it would feel like to have it on your phone!

But for those who don’t have a phone – the new official MXit PC will provide you the fun you are looking for!

That’s awesome, and is sure to attract of a lot of new customers, well done CellC on actually listening to… me

So if you are on CellC, MXit won’t cost you any GPRS/internet costs!
MXit Moola is NOT free though Those premium SMSs will still cost ya if you want to purchase Moola to enter competitions or use cool entertainment services on MXit’s Tradepost.

Thanks Cell C for the free internet for MXit!
And the free weekend calls for 2 hours

CellC Free SMS @ wap.defza.com/cellc

• Afrikaans – South African language.
• German (Dutch/Deutsch)
• English
• Spanish (Español)
• French (Français)
• Italian (Italiano)
• Portuguese (Português, Brazilian and European)
• Xhosa (isiXhosa) – South African african language
• Zulu (isiZulu) – South African african language

This will help if someone isn’t familiar with English language words on their mobile and are struggling to get MXit to chat with!
Afrikaans, Zulu and Xhosa are three other official languages spoken in South Africa, the country of creation of MXit.

I agree with the statements that the market for Xhosa and Zulu speakers is quite big in South Africa, as I experience a lot of feedback on my mobile wap site (wap.defza.com) from native South African language speakers! And it’s quite an exciting new market.

Check out this for a quick language primer
At a time when MXit has reached 5.4 million users, there’s still much more potential left in the company from South Africa. At a solid 10-12K new registrations per day.

Visit www.mxit.com/wap to get MXit in your language now!

What’s new in V5.3?

• MultiMX (pronounced Multi Mix) – is MXit’s new group chatroom!
  So you can invite your contacts to join you in a private Group Chat for free!

Some info on MultiMX

1. The room is temporary (gets deleted after you logout)
2. Can only invite people from your contact list (roster) that are online.
3. Only the creator of the room can invite people to join.

All phones can join in a MultiMx chat session! (but just a few can’t create/invite)

Group broadcast (multi send)

This has been free since MXit V5.2.
In other words, are you tired of typing the same thing to all your contacts? MXit allows you to send the same message to everyone in a “group” in MXit. (Menu -> Contacts -> Add/Move to group)

Here’s what groups look like in MXit – groups really help to organize your contacts:
(TIP: Your most popular/spoken to contact can be left groupless so that it’s always on top)

So you choose the group name and press Group-Broadcast Write and it will send the message to up to 10 contacts in that group!

MultiMX simplified

Basically if you want to chat to more than one of your contacts/friends at a time and you can all talk together at the same time and see what everyone is saying (chat room like), MultiMX will help!
It is aimed at being a quick, spur of the moment conversation between a couple of people.

- If you log out or deletes the contact, that counts as leaving the MultiMx.
- Google Talk or MSN Messenger contacts cannot be part of a MultiMx yet, this feature will still be added.

Also, check out “Tradepost” on MXit for more chat rooms where you can chat to more than just your friends list! Tradepost chat rooms work on any phone and you can invite anyone to join your chats!

MXit V 5.3 will also have some new bug fixes!

Apparantly, you will be able to vote for the Idols singing competition via MXit.

This must be a world first, as I doubt any other competition has allowed for voting via Instant Messenger. As usual, South Africa is first when it comes to tech innovation.

• Mnet Idols website: idols.mnet.co.za

Mxit will also become the official voting medium for talent search show “South African Idols” later this year.

Official – well, there will surely still be the SMS/phone call option of voting!

Idols Schedule / Times

The idols show on Mnet runs from Sunday 19 August – the first episode, up till the final on Sunday 9 December 2007.

Have fun!
And new: get MP3 Music Via Mxit even!

Check out Tradepost on your MXit!

Mxit just reached the 5 million users mark! (Wed, Aug 15, 2007)

Some MXit Facts

• About nine million log-ons per day.
• Over 200 million messages sent per day.
• Between eight and 12 thousand new registrations per day.

In the last 24 hours, MXit has added just over 1,000 new international users!

* MXit is a free mobile instant messaging solution
* The service provides low cost text based communication to mobile users

* 200 million messages are sent per day

* The application is downloaded to the user’s cell phone free of charge. The user is then able to send and receive short text messages over the Internet at a very low cost, on both cell phones and personal computers.
* Swist Group Technologies (Pty) Ltd was formed in 1995 and is a major shareholder of MXit Lifestyle.
* In April 2004, the business unit of MXit Lifestyle (formerly Clockspeed Mobile) was separated from Swist Group to form a new company.
* Naspers acquired a 30% stake in MXit in January 2007.

- SMStextNews.com

And with the release of MXit Version 5.2, and all its new features, these figures are going to explode!

Just verifying that South Africa is the top country in the world
If you need something done, just come here!

Why get Freestyler subscription on MXit?
You can save, send and receive your messages, greetings cards and pictures at no additional cost (beyond operator data costs).

On Thursday, August 16 2007 it will be available to Freestylers first to test out!

New features in 5.2?

Major Features

• International languages – support for more alphabets/characters (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and German)
• Secure/encrypted messages/chat – A new “send encrypted” option.
• Voice Messaging/Chat (VOIP) – almost like “push-to-talk”.

– Not yet!

• Meet Your Gallery – V5.2 allows ALL users to make use of the Gallery. (Previously exclusive to Freestylers)
  Save conversations, files, Skinz and more to your personal Gallery.
  25 items at a max size of 150kb.
• Play Audio Files – on supported phones.
• Broadcast (Group Messaging) – V5.2 allows you to broadcast a message to 10 contacts in a Group for FREE. (Previously exclusive to Freestylers)

- The MXit website (mxit.com) is already translated to some other languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German and Brazilian).

- AE128 content encryption will shortly be standardised on the MXit system (with a view, MXit says, toward creating a foundation for financial transactions).

- The voice/voip: It’s effectively push-to-talk or ‘quasi push to talk’ as MXit describes it. – Not yet, V6 probably~
V5.2 is just a minor’ish update.

Minor Fixes/Additions

• Smooth Scrolling – Hold in up and down, no need to press up/down repeatedly.
• Set your autoaway time. ( 1,2,5,10, or 20 minutes)
• Under settings – login: You can change the connection type: auto/http/socket: half duplex/socket: full-duplex. This is for phones that might have problems connecting.
• A “3 soft button mode” – if you want to use a third shortcut button at the MXit bottom bar. (“Options” and “Back” are “soft keys” when you are talking to a contact.) Having three will give you “Write” as a softkey, for quicker access. As well as other options on other screens in MXit.
• Presence State & Mood In Conversation Screen
• Connectivity Improved
• Max Message Size Changed to 1000 bytes/characters
• Improvements for some phones:

i-Mate / HTC phones do not have much extra java APIs (no file access, no sending of SMS, no access to the camera from within Java), so the extra feature will be the ability to download skins.

• Read more below…

I managed to find the MXit V5.2 beta before it was released, but I’m not a person to break trust, so don’t even ask You will get it soon!

Official changelist

1. Encryption
An option is now available to encrypt user to user messages using 128 AES.
The encryption is performed using a shared password.
When logging in the password is also encrypted.
A further encryption option allows services to communicate with a client using encrypted communication.

2. Meet Your Gallery
V5.2 allows ALL users to make use of the Gallery. (Previously exclusive to Freestylers)
Save conversations, files, Skinz and more to your personal Gallery.

25 items at a max size of 150kb.

3. Play Audio Files
Adds the ability to play audio files from within MXit. Note that this feature is not available to all handsets.
The following file types will be supported for each supported phone category
(The Used column is the percentage of version 5 users that makes use of that particular category)

4. Smooth Scrolling
The ability to scroll through the contacts list and chat screen by holding in an arrow key (instead of having to press it repeatedly).

5. Broadcast (Group Messaging)
V5.2 allows you to broadcast a message to 10 contacts in a Group for FREE. (Previously exclusive to Freestylers)
Multimedia file types are charged at 15 Moola per broadcast.

6. Set Auto Away Timer
The interval that must elapse before the user’s presence is set to away automatically can now be configured in Menu -> Settings -> Presence.

7. Configure Softbutton Mode
The user can now configure whether a middle softbutton action should be available where applicable (default for Nokia handsets).

8. Presence State & Mood In Conversation Screen
Modify the presence state and mood indicators that are shown in the heading bar of the conversation screen to refer to that contact instead of to the user itself.
This will make it easier to see if the mood or presence state of a contact changed, while talking to him/her.

9. Multiple Language Support
Added support for multiple languages. The choice of language is made during the download process.

10. Connectivity Improved
If a connection cannot be made using sockets, the client will fall back to HTTP mode.
Furthermore an option has been added so that the user can select at login time which network connection he would like to use (half-duplex socket, full-duplex socket or HTTP)

11. Max Message Size Changed
The maximum size of a message that can be sent has been reduced to 1000 bytes (from 2048) to save memory.

Bugs fixed:
1. Samsung D900 / E250: Fixed local file system access problems.
2. Samsung D900, Motorola V3X: Fixed file sending.
3. Motorola V3x: Fixed photo capture
4. Nokia S60: Phone camera is now available while MXit is running in the background.
5. Samsung E250: Skins, Local file access now supported.
6. HTC: Skinz now supported
7. Nokia S60 2nd Ed FP 1,2 (including Nokia 6670 and 7610): problems with updating the Profile fixed.
8. Don’t try to login any more if the logout call fails.
9. Fixed file transfers for HTTP version
10. User’s mood is now displayed properly for HTC phones
11. Screen is now updated properly if contact’s mood or presence changes while the contact’s chat screen is open.
12. HTC: Settings are now saved properly in the record store.
13. Invites cannot be moved to a group any more.
14. Up to 5 icons can now be shown in the heading

See the audio supported phone series’ here: forum.mxit.co.za/images/Audio.JPG

The MXit_Team is bringing you The King of Kwaito right to your MXit.
Yup, that is right!

On Saturday the 11 Aug 2007 between 7pm and 9pm, you will have the chance to chat to Mandoza within our new Dynamic Zones.

You will have the chance to chat to Mandoza within our new Dynamic Zones (through Tradepost on the MXit application).

This is MXit’s first Celebrity Chat Weekend which gives young people all over South Africa a chance to chat to their favourite stars, a chance that many teens only dream of, especially those living in remote areas. Aside from the fun, MXit will be involving local celebrities to reinforce the message of being safe and responsible online.

“I love using new technology, it’s how music spreads, it’s how I can reach out to more and more people. MXit is a cheap, easy way to chat to friends, or make new friends. People need to learn that they must be careful, and stay safe when online,” says Mandoza.

Mandoza Skinz – You’re unique! Skin your MXit

* Available from Tradepost soon *

More

* Read up on the MXit Forum -> Dynamic Zones.
* Chat to Celebrities on MXit Chat Weekend

UPDATE: Read the entertaining Mandoza on MXit Chat History (transcript of what was said) here -> forum.mxit.co.za/viewtopic.php?t=11146

MXit Celebrity Chat Weekend, where MXit brings you South Africa artists to the MXit chatrooms for their fans!

MXit is making technological history in South Africa by becoming the first to bring stars to have a live chat with fans over the MXit cellphone chat service.

This is MXit’s first Celebrity Chat Weekend which gives young people all over South Africa a chance to chat to their favourite stars, a chance that many teens only dream of, especially those living in remote areas. Aside from the fun, MXit will be involving local celebrities to reinforce the message of being safe and responsible online.

Keep watching the MXit Splashscreens (when you start MXit) as well as the Dynamic Zones (Chat rooms) for news and info as to when, who and where this will be going down.

Links

* Read up on the MXit Forum -> Dynamic Zones.
* BizCommunity South Africa – Mandoza kicks off MXit Celebrity Chat Weekend
* Mandoza on Mxit Celebrity Chat Weekend